Hui Zhang, PhD, is a Research Specialist who is focusing on human thermal comfort modeling in asymmetrical environments and the development of CBE's Thermal Comfort Model. She received a PhD in building science from the Department of Architecture at UC Berkeley in December 2003. In 2004 she received the ASHRAE Ralph Nevins Physiology and Human Environment Award for her PhD dissertation study, "Local Thermal Comfort in Asymmetrical and Transient Environments."
She received her Master of Engineering in the Architecture Department of Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 1986. Before she came to the U.S. in 1989, she taught in the Architecture Department of Tsinghua University as an assistant professor for three years. Previous research interests include energy conservation analysis in buildings, passive solar house design, and human thermal comfort.
Contact Information
Zhang Hui, PhD
Research Specialist
510-642-6918
zhanghui@berkeley.edu
Center for the Built Environment
390 Wurster Hall #1839
Berkeley, CA 94720-1839
