Voice-Enabled Comfort: AI-Driven Home Heating

Technical Sciences - Institut for byggeri og Bygni; Denmark; On-site; DKK 320,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Aarhus University (Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering) invites applications for a PhD fellowship on informed comfort through natural-language interaction with home heating and cooling. The project develops a large-language-model interface to explain controller actions and costs to residents.

Applicants should hold a MSc in a technical field, be able to program in Python, and enjoy data analysis. Danish language skills are advantageous but not required for fieldwork.

Qualifications

• MSc in engineering, computer science, building science or related technical field.
• Preference for Python programming and data analysis experience.
• Experience with model predictive control or optimisation is advantageous.
• Familiarity with statistics, experiments with people, and field measurements is helpful.

Responsibilities

• Couple language model to controller to translate residents’ requests into safe control actions.
• Run climate chamber experiments to study explanations on thermal acceptability.
• Carry out a field study in occupied Danish homes across seasons.

Skills

Python programming

Data analysis

Model predictive control

Optimization

Large language models

Statistics

Experiment design with people

Field measurements

Education

M.Sc. in engineering/CS/building science

Access via 4+4 programme (B.Sc + master's)

Job description

Aarhus University (Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering) invites applications for a PhD fellowship on informed comfort through natural-language interaction with home heating and cooling. The project develops a large-language-model interface to explain controller actions and costs to residents.

Applicants should hold a MSc in a technical field, be able to program in Python, and enjoy data analysis. Danish language skills are advantageous but not required for fieldwork.