Category: Events
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SBE Participation in Swedish Circular Economy Colloquium
Last week, a few of us attended the third Swedish Circular Economy colloquium that took place in Gothenburg. It was great to see more people coming from different industries and backgrounds, all focused on the same idea. That made starting conversations really easy, and we got to catch up with some colleagues. Among other highlights
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Sanjay has successfully defended his PhD
On 29th November, Sanjay Somanath successfully defended his PhD thesis, titled “Instruments of Inquiry for Urban Social Sustainability: Activity-Based Urban Accessibility Modelling in Neighbourhood Planning,”. In his thesis, Sanjay explored questions such as, “How can urban practitioners incorporate residents’ perspectives into neighbourhood planning?” and “How can computational methods help operationalise urban social sustainability?” through the lens of activity-based urban accessibility
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Xinyue has defended her licentiate thesis
On June 10th, Xinyue Wang presented at her Licentiate seminar defending her thesis entitled ‘Towards Machine Learning Application in Early-Stage Building Energy Optimization’. Her thesis discusses how to develop a machine learning building energy prediction model to substitute the traditional simulation engines in early stage optimization workflow for higher efficiency. Professor Paul Sheperd, from the University
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