Selected paper and conference proceedings
Ghorbany, S., Hu, M., & Nouri, A. (2025). Commercial Buildings Decarbonization: Benchmarks and Strategies for the United States Sustainable Commercial Construction. Sustainable Cities and Society, 106324.
Ghorbany, S., & Hu, M. (2025). A systematic framework to reduce urban embodied carbon emissions using urban scale simulation. npj Urban Sustainability, 5(1), 7.
Hu, M., Qiu, Y., & Nouri, A. (2025). What drives embodied carbon policy? A global perspective on adoption. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 1-25.
Hu, M., Wang, C., Ghorbany, S., Yao, S., & Nouri, A. (2024, June). Machine Learning Integration in LCA: Addressing Data Deficiencies in Embodied Carbon Assessment. In The International Conference on Net-Zero Civil Infrastructures: Innovations in Materials, Structures, and Management Practices (NTZR) (pp. 927-940). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
Ghorbany, S., & Hu, M. (2024). Urban embodied carbon assessment: methodology and insights from analyzing over a million buildings in Chicago. Carbon Management, 15(1), 2382993.
Hu, M., & Świerzawski, J. (2024). Assessing the environmental benefits of adaptive reuse in historical buildings. A case study of a life cycle assessment approach. Sustainable Environment, 10(1), 2375439.
Hu, M., Han, S., Ghorbany, S., & Zhang, K. (2024). Healthy Aging in Place with the Aid of Smart Technologies: A Systematic Review. Encyclopedia, 4(4), 1918-1932.
Han, S., Hu, M., Gao, X., Huang, Y., Guo, F., Shen, G. C., … & Zhang, K. (2024). Energy burden and mental health: A national study in the United States. Science of the Total Environment, 955, 176796.
Nouri, A., & Hu, M. (2024). Decoding Carbon Footprints: How US Climate Zones Shape Building Emissions. Climate, 12(12), 212.
Ghorbany, S., Hu, M., Sisk, M., Yao, S., & Wang, C. (2024). Passive over active: how low-cost strategies influence urban energy equity. Sustainable Cities and Society, 114, 105723.
Yao, S., Ghorbany, S., Sisk, M., Hu, M., & Wang, C. (2024, October). Leveraging Zero-Shot Learning on Street-View Imagery for Built Environment Variable Analysis. In International Symposium on Visual Computing (pp. 243-254). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
Hu, M., Ghorbany, S., Yao, S., & Wang, C. (2024). Micro-Urban Heatmapping: A Multi-Modal and Multi-Temporal Data Collection Framework. Buildings, 14(9), 2751.
Ghorbany, S., Hu, M., Yao, S., & Wang, C. (2024). Towards a sustainable urban future: A comprehensive review of urban heat island research technologies and machine learning approaches. Sustainability, 16(11), 4609.
Hu, M., & Ghorbany, S. (2024). Building stock models for embodied carbon emissions—a review of a nascent field. Sustainability, 16(5), 2089.