@inproceedings{saka2026acquirium,
  title = {Acquirium: Toward Interoperable Data Driven Applications in Water Treatment Systems},
  author = {Umut Mete Saka and Fletcher T. Chapin and Lazlo Paul and Avia Anwar and Scott Struck and Meagan S. Mauter and Gabe Fierro},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of 3th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 26)},
  address = {Banff, Alberta, CA},
  month = {June},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3744256.3812557}
}

@inproceedings{paul2025i,
  title = {I Can’t Read All That! Improving the Usability of Semantic Models Using Concise, Ontology-Agnostic, Building-Specific Schemas},
  author = {Lazlo Paul and Ozan Baris Mulayim and Umut Mete Saka and Anand Krishnan Prakash and Gabe Fierro and Marco Pritoni},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 25)},
  address = {Golden, CO, USA},
  month = {November},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3736425.3770107}
}

@inproceedings{mulayim2025buildingqa,
  title = {BuildingQA: A Benchmark for Natural Language Question Answering over Building Knowledge Graphs},
  author = {Ozan Baris Mulayim and Avia Anwar and Umut Mete Saka and Lazlo Paul and Anand Krishnan Prakash and Gabe Fierro and Marco Pritoni and Mario Bergés},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 25)},
  address = {Golden, CO, USA},
  month = {November},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3736425.3770097},
  note = {Best Paper Award Runner-Up; Repository: https://github.com/INFERLab/BuildingQA}
}

@inproceedings{ovi2025assessing,
  title = {Assessing Student Adoption of Generative Artificial Intelligence across Engineering Education from 2023 to 2024},
  author = {Jesan Ahammed Ovi and Gabe Fierro and C. Estelle Smith},
  booktitle = {preprint for ASEE 2025},
  address = {Montreal, Canada},
  month = {June},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.04696}
}

@inproceedings{pritoni2024digital,
  title = {Digital and Interoperable: The future of building automation is on the horizon. What's in it for me?},
  author = {Marco Pritoni and Michael Wetter and Lazlo Paul and Anand Prakash and Weiping Huang and Steven Bushby and Parastoo Delgoshaei and Michael Poplawski and Avijit Saha and Gabe Fierro and Matt Steen and Joel Bender and Paul Ehrlich},
  booktitle = {2024 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings},
  month = {August},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://escholarship.org/uc/item/191333wd}
}

@inproceedings{smith2024early,
  title = {Early Adoption of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Computing Education: Emergent Student Use Cases and Perspectives in 2023},
  author = {C. Estelle Smith and Kylee Shiekh and Hayden Cooreman and Sharfi Rahman and Yifei Zhu and Md Kamrul Siam and Michael Ivanitskiy and Ahmed M. Ahmed and Michael Hallinan and Alexander Grisak and Gabe Fierro},
  booktitle = {29th ACM conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2024)},
  address = {Milan, Italy},
  month = {July},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3649217.3653575}
}

@inproceedings{fu2024playground,
  title = {Playground: A Safe Building Operating System},
  author = {Xiaohan Fu and Yihao Liu and Jason Koh and Dezhi Hong and Rajesh Gupta and Gabe Fierro},
  booktitle = {15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS 2024)},
  address = {Hong Kong, China},
  month = {May},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10571633},
  note = {Best Paper Runner-Up}
}

@inproceedings{mavrokapnidis2023seeq,
  title = {SeeQ: A Programming Model for Portable Data-driven Building Applications},
  author = {Dimitris Mavrokapnidis and Gabe Fierro and Maria Husmann and Ivan Korolija and Dimitrios Rovas},
  booktitle = {The 10th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 2023)},
  address = {Istanbul, Turkey},
  month = {November},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3600100.3623744}
}

@inproceedings{mavrokapnidis2023a,
  title = {A Programming Model for Portable Fault Detection and Diagnosis},
  author = {Dimitris Mavrokapnidis and Gabe Fierro and Ivan Korolija and Dimitrios Rovas},
  booktitle = {14th ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy 2023)},
  address = {Orlando, FL, USA},
  month = {June},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3575813.3595190}
}

@inproceedings{fierro2022application,
  title = {Application-Driven Creation of Building Metadata Models with Semantic Sufficiency},
  author = {Gabe Fierro and Avijit Saha and Tobias Shapinsky and Matthew Steen and Hannah Eslinger},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environment (BuildSys)},
  address = {Boston, MA, USA},
  month = {November},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3563357.3564083},
  note = {Repository: https://github.com/NREL/BuildingMOTIF}
}

@inproceedings{fierro2022notes,
  title = {Notes Paper: Enabling Building Application Development with Simulated Digital Twins},
  author = {Gabe Fierro and Anand Prakash and David Blum and Joel Bender and Erik Paulson and Michael Wetter},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environment (BuildSys)},
  address = {Boston, MA, USA},
  month = {November},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3563357.3564060},
  note = {Repository: https://github.com/gtfierro/simulated-digital-twin}
}

@inproceedings{roth2022towards,
  title = {Towards Digital and Performance-Based Supervisory HVAC Control Delivery},
  author = {Amir Roth and Michael Wetter and Kyle Benne and David Blum and Yan Chen and Gabe Fierro and Marco Pritoni and Avijit Saha and Draguna Vrabie},
  booktitle = {ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings},
  address = {Asilomar, CA, US},
  month = {August},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://escholarship.org/uc/item/59z6d46m}
}

@inproceedings{sun2022enabling,
  title = {Enabling Portable and Reproducible Long-term Thermal Comfort Evaluation with Brick Schema and Mortar Testbed},
  author = {Ruiji Sun and Carlos Duarte Roa and Paul Raftery and Gabe Fierro},
  booktitle = {ASHRAE 2022 Annual Conference},
  month = {February},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5640w8m0}
}

@inproceedings{bennani2021query,
  title = {Query Relaxation for Portable Brick-Based Applications},
  author = {Imane Bennani and Anand Prakash and Marina Zafiris and Lazlo Paul and Carlos Duarte Roa and Paul Raftery and Marco Pritoni and Gabe Fierro},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys)},
  address = {Virtual Event, Portugal},
  month = {November},
  year = {2021},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3486611.3486671},
  note = {Repository: https://github.com/anandkp92/relaxed-brick-queries/}
}

@inproceedings{wetter2021modelica,
  title = {Modelica-json: Transforming Energy Models to Digitize the Control Delivery Process},
  author = {Michael Wetter and Jianjun Hu and Anand Prakash and Paul Erlich and Gabe Fierro and Milica Grahovac and Marco Pritoni and Lisa Rivalin and Dave Robin},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th IBPSA Conference (IBPSA 2021)},
  address = {Brugge, Belgium},
  month = {September},
  year = {2021},
  url = {https://gtf.fyi/papers/2021-ibpsa-modelica-json.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{moffat2021phasor,
  title = {Phasor Based Control with the Distributed, Extensible Grid Control Platform},
  author = {Keith Moffat and Jasper Pakshong and Leo Chu and Gabe Fierro and Jaimie Swartz and Maxime Baudette and Alexandra von Meier},
  booktitle = {2021 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT)},
  address = {Virtual Event},
  month = {February},
  year = {2021},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9372161}
}

@inproceedings{fierro2020an,
  title = {An Extensible Software and Communication Platform for Distributed Energy Resource Management},
  author = {Gabe Fierro and Keith Moffat and Jasper Pakshong and Alexandra von Meier},
  booktitle = {2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm)},
  address = {Virtual Event},
  month = {November},
  year = {2020},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9303006},
  note = {Repository: https://github.com/gtfierro/DEGC}
}

@inproceedings{fierro2020shepherding,
  title = {Shepherding Metadata Through the Building Lifecycle},
  author = {Gabe Fierro and Anand Krishnan Prakash and Cory Mosiman and Marco Pritoni and Paul Raftery and Michael Wetter and David E. Culler},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys)},
  address = {Virtual Event, Japan},
  month = {November},
  year = {2020},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3408308.3427627},
  note = {Repository: https://github.com/gtfierro/shepherding}
}

@inproceedings{bergmann2020semantic,
  title = {Semantic Interoperability to Enable Smart, Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings},
  author = {Harry Bergmann and Cory Mosiman and Avijit Saha and Selam Haile and William Livingood and Steven Bushby and Gabe Fierro and Joel Bender and Michael Poplawski and Jessica Granderson and Marco Pritoni},
  booktitle = {2020 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings},
  address = {Virtual Event},
  month = {August},
  year = {2020},
  url = {https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1325d5j3}
}

@inproceedings{fierro2019beyond,
  title = {Beyond a House of Sticks: Formalizing Metadata Tags with Brick},
  author = {Gabe Fierro and Jason Koh and Yuvraj Agarwal and Rajesh K. Gupta and David E. Culler},
  booktitle = {6th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys)},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  month = {November},
  year = {2019},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3360322.3360862}
}

@inproceedings{andersen2019wave,
  title = {WAVE: A Decentralized Authorization Framework with Transitive Delegation},
  author = {Michael P Andersen and Sam Kumar and Moustafa AbdelBaky and Gabe Fierro and John Kolb and Hyung-Sin Kim and David E. Culler and Raluca Ada Popa},
  booktitle = {28th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 19)},
  address = {Santa Clara, CA, USA},
  year = {2019},
  url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity19/presentation/andersen}
}

@inproceedings{fierro2018mortar,
  title = {Mortar: An Open Testbed for Portable Building Analytics},
  author = {Gabe Fierro and Marco Pritoni and Moustafa AbdelBaky and Paul Raftery and Therese Peffer and Greg Thomson and David E. Culler},
  booktitle = {5th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys)},
  address = {Shenzhen, China},
  month = {November},
  year = {2018},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3366375},
  note = {Audience Choice Award}
}

@inproceedings{fierro2017design,
  title = {Design and Analysis of a Query Processor for Brick},
  author = {Gabe Fierro and David E. Culler},
  booktitle = {4th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys)},
  address = {Delft, The Netherlands},
  month = {November},
  year = {2017},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3137133.3137155}
}

@inproceedings{hellerstein2017ground,
  title = {Ground: A Data Context Service},
  author = {Joseph M. Hellerstein and Vikram Sreekanti and Joseph E. Gonzalez and James Dalton and Akon Dey and Sreyashi Nag and Krishna Ramachandran and Sudhanshu Arora and Arka Bhattacharyya and Shirshanka Das and Mark Donsky and Gabe Fierro and Chang She and Carl Steinbach and Venkat Subramanian and Eric Sun},
  booktitle = {Eighth Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR)},
  address = {Chaminade, CA, USA},
  month = {January},
  year = {2017},
  url = {https://rise.cs.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/CIDR17.pdf},
  note = {Repository: https://github.com/ground-context/ground}
}

@inproceedings{balaji2016brick,
  title = {Brick v1.0 - Towards a Unified Metadata Schema for Buildings},
  author = {Bharathan Balaji and Arka Bhattacharya and Gabe Fierro and Jingkun Gao and Joshua Gluck and Dezhi Hong and Aslak Johansen and Jason Koh and Yuvraj Agarwal and Mario Berges and David E. Culler and Rajesh Gupta and Mikkel Baun Kjaergaard and Joern Ploennigs and Kamin Whitehouse},
  booktitle = {3rd ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys)},
  address = {Palo Alto, California},
  month = {November},
  year = {2016},
  url = {https://gtf.fyi/papers/brick2016balaji.pdf},
  note = {Best Paper Runner-Up, Test of Time Award}
}

@inproceedings{fierro2016enabling,
  title = {Enabling Portable Energy Applications with a Building Operating System},
  author = {Gabe Fierro and Therese Peffer and David E. Culler},
  booktitle = {2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings},
  address = {Pacific Grove, CA},
  month = {August},
  year = {2016},
  url = {https://gtf.fyi/papers/aceee_enabling.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{peffer2016writing,
  title = {Writing Controls Sequences for Buildings: from HVAC Industry Enclave to Hacker’s Weekend Project},
  author = {Therese Peffer and Marco Pritoni and Gabe Fierro and Soazig Kaam and Joyce Kim and Paul Raftery},
  booktitle = {2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings},
  address = {Pacific Grove, CA},
  month = {August},
  year = {2016},
  url = {https://gtf.fyi/papers/aceee_enclave.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{zhao2016getting,
  title = {Getting into the Zone: How the Internet of Things can Improve Energy Efficiency and Demand Response in a Commercial Building},
  author = {Peng Zhao and Therese Peffer and Ram Narayanamurthy and Gabe Fierro and Paul Raftery and Soazig Kaam and Joyce Kim},
  booktitle = {2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings},
  address = {Pacific Grove, CA},
  month = {August},
  year = {2016},
  url = {https://gtf.fyi/papers/aceee_gettingintothezone.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{andersen2016well,
  title = {Well-connected Microzones for Increased Building Efficiency and Occupant Comfort},
  author = {Michael P Andersen and Gabe Fierro and Sam Kumar and Joyce Kim and Edward A. Arens and Hui Zhang and Paul Raftery and David E. Culler},
  booktitle = {2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings},
  address = {Pacific Grove, CA},
  month = {August},
  year = {2016},
  url = {https://gtf.fyi/papers/aceee_chairs.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{andersen2016system,
  title = {System Design for a Synergistic, Low Power Mote/BLE Embedded Platform},
  author = {Michael P Andersen and Gabe Fierro and David E. Culler},
  booktitle = {15th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks},
  address = {Vienna, Austria},
  month = {April},
  year = {2016},
  url = {https://gtf.fyi/papers/synergy.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{andersen2016enabling,
  title = {Enabling Synergy in IoT: Platform to Service and Beyond},
  author = {Michael P Andersen and Gabe Fierro and David E. Culler},
  booktitle = {1st IEEE International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation},
  address = {Berlin, Germany},
  month = {April},
  year = {2016},
  url = {https://gtf.fyi/papers/enabling_synergy.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{dawson-haggerty2013boss,
  title = {BOSS: Building Operating System Services},
  author = {Stephen Dawson-Haggerty and Andrew Krioukov and Jay Taneja and Sagar Karandikar and Gabe Fierro and Nikita Kitaev and David E. Culler},
  booktitle = {10th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation},
  address = {Lombard, IL},
  month = {April},
  year = {2013},
  url = {https://gtf.fyi/papers/boss.pdf}
}