Andrew Sonta

Andrew Sonta

Andrew Sonta is a tenure track assistant professor of sustainable civil engineering at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne). He directs the ETHOS Lab: Engineering and Technology for Human Oriented Sustainability, an interdisciplinary research group focused on using data-driven and computational tools to create interventions in the built environment that advance social and environmental sustainability goals.12

Biography

Andrew completed his undergraduate work at Northwestern University in civil engineering, where he also studied architecture and economics. He obtained his MS and PhD from Stanford University's Sustainable Design and Construction program in civil engineering. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University's Data Science Institute before arriving at EPFL.12

Research Areas

• Human-building interaction
• Building energy efficiency
• Socio-environmental analysis of urban form
• Urban energy systems

Selected Publications

• OccuVAE: Integrating unsupervised occupancy inference in data-driven energy modeling for human-centric operation (2023)
• RECA: A Multi-Task Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Recommender System for Co-Optimizing Energy, Comfort and Air Quality in Commercial Buildings (2023)
• Data-driven simulation of room-level building energy consumption (2021)
• Optimizing neighborhood-scale walkability (2019)1

Teaching

Andrew teaches civil engineering courses at EPFL.1