Home > Academics > Academic Units > Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (FoE&A) > Architecture and Regional Planning > Prashant Anand
Ph.D., NUS Singapore
Assistant Professor Grade-I
Architecture and Regional Planning
My current research interest is to investigate the impact of outdoor/indoor pollutants and viral loads on building system control, system-level and building-level energy efficiency, and on zone level occupant’s health and wellbeing.
BenchSys 2022 - https://benchsys.github.io/2022/
Research Group at ARP Department: AI & Human-Building Intraction Lab
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Current editorial work: Guest editor for the special issue on “Strategies for improving urban livability”
Details: This is a special issue of Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Infrastructure".
Link for the further details: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/50528/strategies-for-improving-urban-livability
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- Member of the International Scientific Committee, 17th International Conference on Indoor Air, https://indoorair2022.org/committee-members/
A review of strategies and their effectiveness in reducing indoor airborne transmission and improving indoor air quality by Anand P., George A. Environmental Research - (2022)
Occupancy-based energy consumption modelling using machine learning algorithms for institutional buildings by Anand P. Energy and Buildings 252 111-478 (2021)
A review of occupancy-based building energy and IEQ controls and its future post-COVID by Anand P., Cheong D. , Sekhar C. Science of The Total Environment 804 150-249 (2021)
Hybrid and Combined Processes for Air Pollution Control: Methodologies, Mechanisms and Effect of Key Parameters by Sajeev V., Anand P. , George A. Indoor air pollution, occupant health, and building system controls a COVID-19 perspective - (2022)
Performance characteristics of a Fan Filter Unit (FFU) in mitigating Particulate Matter levels in a naturally ventilated classroom during haze conditions by Anand P., Tham K. , Gk P. , Cheong D. , Sekhar C. Indoor Air 31 795-806 (2021)
Computation of zone-level ventilation requirement based on actual occupancy, plug and lighting load information. Special Issue, New Building Ventilation Technologies by Anand P., Cheong D. , Sekhar C. Indoor and Built Environment 1-17 (2019)
Energy saving estimation for plug and lighting load using occupancy analysis by Anand P., Cheong D. , Sekhar C. , Santamouris M. , Kondepudi S. Renewable Energy 143 1143-1161 (2019)
Occupancy-based zone-level VAV system control implications on thermal comfort, ventilation, indoor air quality and building energy efficiency by Anand P., Sekhar C. , Cheong D. , Santamouris M. , Kondepudi S. Energy and Building 204 194373- (2019)
Adaptable cooling coil performance during part loads in the tropics - a computational evaluation by Anand P., Chandra S. , Schiavon S. , Tham K. , Cheong D. , Saber E. Energy and Building 159 148-163 (2018)
Experimental and simulation assessment of an adaptable cooling coil in the tropics by Anand P. Journal of Building Engineering 56-81 (2022)
Configuration and testing of smart occupant-centric thermal and indoor air quality controls in buildings Department of Science and Technology (DST)
A Novel, Smart, Eco-Friendly and Modular Window System ISIRD, SRIC
Centre of Excellence on Energy Aware Urban Infrastructure Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)
St Malsawmtluangi
Area of Research: Sustainable and Green Housing
Ajith N Nair
Area of Research: Data-driven building energy and IEQ retrofit
Krithika Panicker
Area of Research: Occupant behaviour in building energy simulation
Manoj Kumar V
Area of Research: Urban form and outdoor thermal comfort
Anurag Aman Kaushal
Area of Research: Scientific validation of Vastu Shastra through Building IEQ and Energy Efficiency Studies
Piyali Debnath
Area of Research: Parametric optimization of building facades
Vikash Chandra
Area of Research: Building Energy