Dr. Zuo is a full professor in Architectural Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He is also the Associate Director for Research of Global Building Network, which is an initiative of Penn State and United Nation on high performance buildings. He is currently an Associate Editor of Journal of Solar Energy Engineering. He is a major contributor to multiple open-source building and community modeling tools, including Modelica Buildings library, Modelica Net Zero Energy Community Library, Modelica Smart and Connected Community Library, Fast Fluid Dynamics model, and URBANopt. He has supervised more than 20 Ph.D. students and post-doctors and published more than 140 peer reviewed papers in modeling and simulation.