Dr. Hom Bahadur Rijal is a research professor at Tokyo City University, Japan. He has an MEng and a PhD in architectural engineering from Kyoto University, Japan. He was employed on a project developing an adaptive algorithm of window opening to predict thermal comfort and energy use in buildings at Oxford Brookes University. He has a well-established research track record, with over 90 publications in journals and 14 chapters in books and co-edited books. His major expertise is adaptive thermal comfort and occupant behavior within buildings. In particular, he measured the thermal environments in traditional vernacular houses in Nepal, looked at the thermal comfort of their occupants, and made thermal simulations of them for each climatic zone in Nepal. He also received the Encouragement Prize from the Architectural Institute of Japan for a research article.
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Short Biography
Dr. Hom Bahadur Rijal is a research professor at Tokyo City University, Japan. He has an MEng and a PhD in architectural engineering from Kyoto University, Japan. He was employed on a project developing an adaptive algorithm of window opening to predict thermal comfort and energy use in buildings at Oxford Brookes University. He has a well-established research track record, with over 90 publications in journals and 14 chapters in books and co-edited books. His major expertise is adaptive thermal comfort and occupant behavior within buildings. In particular, he measured the thermal environments in traditional vernacular houses in Nepal, looked at the thermal comfort of their occupants, and made thermal simulations of them for each climatic zone in Nepal. He also received the Encouragement Prize from the Architectural Institute of Japan for a research article.
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