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Researchers Jabeom Koo, Gowoon Lee, and Jangwon Lee took part in the Seoul Shinmun Half Marathon. Great effort by everyone in the hot weather!

All researchers gathered to celebrate Teacher's Day. Thank you, Prof. Sungmin Yoon, for your dedicated guidance!

Gowoon Lee developed a personalized paper-recommendation service for researchers and presented it in an internal seminar. Jaehyun Yoo, Seojun Min, Jangwon Lee, and Saewon Chang took part, combining lab technologies including embedding, RPA, and VR. The service is expected to improve productivity in research planning and literature review. Well done, everyone.

Researchers Jaehyun Yoo, Saewon Chang, Yeojin Hwang, Sungjoon Park, Byeongjun Jang, and Junseo Lee held a seminar on fine-tuning the GPT OSS 20B model.

BIST held a spring futsal match. Team 1 (Jihwan Song, Jabeom Koo, Jaemin Hwang, Sungjoon Park, Jaehyun Yoo, Jiteng) faced Team 2 (Professor, Jangwon Lee, Jeyoon Lee, Junseo Lee, Byeongjun Jang, Saewon Chang), and after a close game Team 1 won 7–6. Congratulations to Team 1, and thanks to everyone for a great match!

Dr. Donghyuk Lee of NineWatt and the BIST UBI team held a joint research seminar on urban-scale shading simulation.

'Autonomous operation and optimization of smart buildings based on AI agents' was registered as an awarded research achievement by the National Research Foundation of Korea.

The professor and all researchers took part in the 2025 BIST year-end review. Thank you all for your hard work in 2025.

Prof. Sungmin Yoon received the 29th Presidential Young Scientist Award (2025). Congratulations!

Researchers Sebin Choi and Sungjoon Park led a review seminar on the paper 'The impact of intelligent cyber-physical systems on the decarbonization of energy.'

Prof. Sungmin Yoon and all researchers attended the 2025 SAREK Winter Annual Conference. Researchers Jabeom Koo, Jeyoon Lee, Gowoon Lee, and Min Htet Myint received Best Presentation Paper Awards.

Sungkyunkwan University, Inha University, and EZSolutions held a joint workshop on self-evolving energy-management technology for intelligent zero-energy buildings. Presentations were given by Jaemin Hwang (SKKU); Seonin Kim and Juhong Oh (Inha); and Suyoung Cho and Changmin Kim (EZSolutions). Well done, everyone.

Researchers Sebin Choi, Syed, and Minju Seok attended the autumn conference of KIAEBS (Korean Institute of Architectural Sustainable Environment and Building Systems). Syed received the Best Paper Presentation Award.

Jaemin Hwang led an internal seminar on AI-agent-based autonomous HVAC control.

Min Htet Myint led an internal seminar on an AI-agent-based VR digital-twin framework.

Gowoon Lee led a review seminar on the paper 'Cooling efficacy of trees across cities is determined by background climate, urban morphology, and tree traits.'

Sungjoon Park led a review seminar on the paper 'A global model of hourly space heating and cooling demand at multiple spatial scales.'

Undergraduate researchers Seungyeon Cho, Taebin Lim, and Sungjoon Park gave a seminar.

Researchers Jeyoon Lee and Syed graduated from the master's program. Congratulations on your graduation! :)

The lab participated as student volunteers at ASHRAE CRC 2025.

An internal seminar on EnergyPlus was held, led by Jabeom Koo.

Prof. Sungmin Yoon and all researchers attended the 2025 SAREK Summer Annual Conference. Researchers Jihwan Song, Minju Seok, Jaehyun Yoo, Gowoon Lee, and Jaemin Hwang received Best Presentation Paper Awards.

All lab members took part in the 2025 Teacher's Day event.

A spring sports day was held to build camaraderie among lab members.

The whole lab attended the undergraduate graduation ceremony of researchers Jaemin Hwang and Jihwan Song.

A presentation on an Urban Building Energy Service based on AI agents and ontologies was given at a building-energy seminar.

BIST's 'world-first self-evolving in-situ virtual sensing technology for the operation phase of building digital twins' was selected as one of Korea's Top 100 National R&D Achievements of 2024; Prof. Sungmin Yoon and Jabeom Koo attended the award ceremony.

The professor and all researchers took part in the 2024 BIST year-end review.

BIST's 'world-first self-evolving in-situ virtual sensing technology for the operation phase of building digital twins' was selected as one of Korea's Top 100 National R&D Achievements of 2024. Source: Ministry of Science and ICT.

Prof. Sungmin Yoon took part in the 2nd Choi Sang-hong Future Talent Award Forum, explaining the importance of ontologies in using generative AI as an engineering tool. Photo: Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Journal.

Prof. Sungmin Yoon and researchers Jabeom Koo, Jeyoon Lee, Jaemin Hwang, and Yunmin Kim took part in a workshop on developing energy-demand optimization services by end-use for existing apartment buildings.

Prof. Sungmin Yoon and all researchers attended the 2024 SAREK Winter Annual Conference. Sebin Choi received the Best Paper Award; Jabeom Koo, Jihwan Song, and Minju Seok received Best Presentation Paper Awards; and Seongmin Kim, Sihwan Park, Sumin Yoon, and Chaeui Hong won bronze in the National HVAC Competition.

Prof. Sungmin Yoon and Yunmin Kim attended the autumn conference of KIEAE (Korea Institute of Ecological Architecture and Environment). Yunmin Kim received the Best Paper Presentation Award.

Researchers Heonjun Choi, Jeyoon Lee, and Syed underwent preliminary and final reviews of their graduate theses at Sungkyunkwan University in 2024.

Prof. Sungmin Yoon and researchers Sebin Choi, Minju Seok, and Syed took part in the 2024 KIAEBS autumn conference.

An autumn sports day was held to build camaraderie among lab members.

Prof. Sungmin Yoon took part in an international climate conference on overcoming the climate crisis and inclusive coexistence.

Prof. Sungmin Yoon and researchers Jeyoon Lee and Jaemin Hwang took part in a preliminary field survey of an existing apartment-complex demonstration site.

All lab members took part in the 2024 lab workshop, building rapport between new and existing members.

Prof. Sungmin Yoon and all researchers attended the 2024 SAREK Summer Annual Conference.

The existing lab (21402A) was expanded and remodeled (21402).

Prof. Sungmin Yoon and researchers Sebin Choi and Heonjun Choi took part in the 11th Asian Conference on Refrigeration and Air-conditioning (ACRA 2024).

Prof. Sungmin Yoon and researchers Jihwan Song and Jaemin Hwang took part in the 2024 spring conference of the Korean Solar Energy Society. Jaemin Hwang and Jihwan Song received Best Paper Awards.

The lab took part in the second-year kick-off workshop for developing core technology for integrated management of building energy-consumption data, aimed at accelerating carbon neutrality in the building sector.

BIST alumni — Joohyun Park (PhD candidate, University of Nebraska–Lincoln) and Ryunhee Kim (master's candidate, Carnegie Mellon University) — met to maintain ongoing collaboration.

The professor and all researchers took part in the 2023 BIST year-end review.

The whole lab took part in the 2023 SAREK Winter Annual Conference. Researchers Eunseo Seo, Jaemin Hwang, Sangwook Lee, Jeongyoon Kwon, and Hamin Lim attended the award ceremony, winning the Grand Prize in the National HVAC Competition.

Prof. Sungmin Yoon and researchers Jaemin Hwang, Eunseo Seo, and Hamin Lim took part in the 2023 autumn conference of the Korean Solar Energy Society, winning the Gold Prize in the Energy Optimization Design Competition.

The professor and all researchers attended the 2023 SAREK Summer Annual Conference. Researchers Youngwoong Choi, Jiwon Kim, Jeyoon Lee, and Yeonju Choi received Best Presentation Paper Awards.

Students Youngwoong Choi, Jabeom Koo, and Jiwon Kim underwent preliminary and final reviews of their graduate theses at Sungkyunkwan University in 2023.

The professor and all researchers took part in the 2022 BIST year-end review.

The professor and all researchers attended the 2022 KIAEBS Winter Annual Conference. Researchers Jiwon Kim and Youngrok Cheon received Best Presentation Paper Awards.

The professor and all researchers attended the 2022 SAREK Winter Annual Conference. Sebin Choi received the Best Paper Award and Best Presentation Paper Award; Youngrok Cheon won bronze in the HVAC Competition.

The lab took part in a Green Remodeling Alliance meeting to report green-remodeling performance-verification results.

The professor and all researchers attended the 2022 SAREK Summer Annual Conference. Researchers Yejin Hong and Sebin Choi received Best Presentation Paper Awards.

A fresh start under the name 'Building Information Science & Technology Lab' at Sungkyunkwan University. The website has also been renewed.