Guanzhou Ji is a 4th-year Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, where he works at the Illumination and Imaging Laboratory (Robotics Institute) with the Imaging Group and School of Architecture. He focuses on indoor photometry, computational photography, and physics-based rendering, and explores computational methods for indoor virtual staging and scene editing. Ji received Master of Architecture (Computational Lighting) from University of Washington - Seattle.
He is a member of American Institute of Architects (AIA) - Building Performance Advisory Group, International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) - Education Committee, Project StaSIO - Executive Committee (an initiative of IBPSA-USA Research Committee), and Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES).
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2023. 11, Ji joined American Institute of Architects (AIA) - Building Performance Advisory Group.
2023. 10, Ji’s paper is accepted as an oral presentation at the International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), Lake Tahoe, NV. [Details]
2023. 09, Ji gave a talk “Indoor Photometry and Scene Reconstruction” in the Lighting session of ASHRAE Building Performance Analysis Conference, Austin, Texas. [Details]
2023. 09, Ji joined as one of the panelists for Project StaSIO Annual Competition Winners and Judge Panel. [Details]
2023. 09, Ji co-authored a paper in the Parametric/Automatic Design session of Building Simulation 2023, Shanghai, China. [Details]
2023. 04, Ji joined the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) - Education Committee.
2023. 03, Ji presented as one of 5 student presenters at Sustainability Across Disciplines, organized by Carnegie Mellon Sustainable Earth.
2023. 03, Ji presented his ongoing work at the Annual Sustainability Symposium organized by the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research.
2023. 02, Ji joined the Project STASIO - executive committee. [Details]
2022. 12, Ji served as one of the panellists and shared the experience of data visualization in the webinar organized by Project StaSIO. [Details]
2022. 10, Ji presented his paper at the 2022 Design Computation Input/Output Conference (virtual). [Details]
2022. 09, Ji presented his paper in the Daylighting session at the 2022 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild, co-organized by ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA in Chicago, IL. [Details]
2022. 08, Ji received Student and Emerging Professionals Scholarships, from IBPSA-USA and U.S Department of Energy. [Details]
2021. 11, Ji presented Ph.D. research at Velux Daylight Academic Forum as one of the 16 PhD students from around the world. He shared his ongoing projects with a group of 8 supporting scientific experts. [Details]
2021. 10, Ji received the Honorable Mention in Innovation in the competition organized by IBPSA-USA and Project STASIO.[Details]
2020. 09 Guanzhou Ji presented paper in the Daylighting session at 2020 Building Performance Analysis Simbuild Virtual Conference Co-organized by ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA (in virtual).
2020. 05 Guanzhou Ji received Floyd A. Naramore Architectural Memorial Fund. The fund was established in 1972 through a bequest from Mr. Naramore. The fellowships are provided for recent graduates (within 10 years of graduation) of the College of Built Environments, University of Washington, who wish to continue their studies in architecture at any university east of the Mississippi River.
2018. 10 Guanzhou Ji received Norman J. Johnston Endowed Scholarship, which is to provide assistance to undergraduate and graduate students in the College of Built Environments based on academic merit and financial need.
2018. 09 Guanzhou Ji received Honorable Mention (Open Catagory) in 2017-2018 ACSA Steel Competition
2018. 09 Guanzhou Ji participated in a multi-disciplinary Studio over the summer. The studio began with the desire to create a mobile, community cookhouse that could connect with efforts to address homelessness in our city. The final project is exhibited in 2018 Seattle Design Festival, Sept. 6-20.
2018. 03 Guanzhou Ji received FIRST PRIZE in the HOUSING CATEGORY, 2017 WIKIARQUITECTURA Student Awards, International Competition
