Dr. Lewe is a certified energy management professional (EMP) and a subject matter expert in physics-based modeling, data engineering / science for district energy systems and smart energy solutions as well as transportation engineering. He holds the principal leadership position for the Energy Infrastructure and Data Engineering group, which partners with GT Infrastructure and Sustainability (I&S) and the Strategic Energy Institute (SEI). He is also the lead of the SEI Energy Flexbility and Data Initiative. His research applies to systems at multiple levels, including grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEB) and equipment, distributed energy resources (DER), district energy systems (central plants and their networks) and the wider electric grid. Campus-centric techniques develped by his research group can be applied to other campus-sized communities, urban areas, metropolitan regions and beyond. As the Co-PI of the Georgia Energy Shed Project, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, he is in charge of developing and analyzing methods for the distribution of electricity and energy usage of the metropolitan Atlanta while incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) metrics. Please visit here for more details. Additionally, Dr. Lewe is interested in transportation system-of-systems and is focusing on multi-paradigm modeling and simulation approaches using agent-based modeling and/or system dynamics, which enables the analysis of system impact assessment due to socioeconomics, new technologies and transportation modes. He has published a substantial amount of research related to various fields. Specifically, he has has authored 60+ journal/magazine articles, conference papers, and technical reports in the areas of energy, space propulsion, on-demand aviation system design, transportation network, data science, and multi-criteria optimization.

Education

• B.S., Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea, 1995

• M.S., Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000

• Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005

Professional Experience

• Research Engineer II, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005 - Present

  • As the lead of Georgia Tech (GT) Smart Campus Initiative in the capacity of chief engineer and co-project manager, he supports and collaborates with the GT Facilities Management groups (Design & Construction, Operations & Maintenance, Information Technology, Analytics & Billing and Communications) as well as Campus Capital Planning, Auxiliary Services, and Sustainability groups. This gives him an unparalleled purview of GT energy infrastructure, processes, hardware, software, and data.

  • Chief “architect” of the Digital Twin of the Kendeda Building. The Digital Twin is being used for benchmarking and fault detection, which facilitated the effort to earn the prestigious Living Building Certificate (net-positive energy & water) from the International Living Future Institute in 2021.

  • Chief “architect” of GT Building Unified Datahub (BUD), an actionable data repository for building sensors, meters, building automation systems, and external data streams, which enables integrated analytics as well as supervisory controls of GT campus buildings.

  • Developed a suite of energy efficiency analysis / monitoring applications for GT main campus utilizing building energy metering data, BAS system and automation protocols and multiple data management platforms with GT Facilities

  • Developed a central chiller plant and chilled water network hydraulics and heat transfer model

  • Advised a Guaranteed Energy Savings Performance Contract for chiller plant automation performed by Johnson Controls

  • Co-PI of General Electric Smart Grid project

  • Developed a participatory sensing scheme for demand response evaluation considering human inconvenience

• Project Assistant Manager and Engineer, Hanwha Corporation, South Korea, 1995 - 1999

  • Lead engineer for assembling monopropellant thruster modules of an LEO satellite

  • Performed and managed a space propulsion system integration

  • Participated in construction of a hot-fire testing facilities in mechanical and data acquisition systems

Selected publications on Agent-Based Modeling and Energy Systems

• Lewe, J.-H., Oh, S., Efe, Y., Kim, H., Brooks, J., Duncan, S., Hong, S., Jung, Y., Koti, R., Operating and Certifying a Net Positive Energy Building During a Pandemic. 2022 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild Conference Proceedings. 2022.

• AIAA Digital Engineering Integration Committee (18 authors and Lewe, J.-H.), Digital Twin: Reference Model, Realizations & Recommendations, AIAA, AIA, and NAFEMS Implementation Paper, January 26, 2023. ​ Brooks, J., Lewe, J.-H., Duncan, S. & Mavris, D., “Improving the predeveloped local ecology: maximizing condensate collection through strategic building operation”, Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment, 2022. ​

• T. Charan, R. Meyer, J.-H. Lewe, K. Woldekidan, S. Duncan, Calibration of Building Energy Model to Determine Load Flexibility Potential, 2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. 2022.

• O.J. Pinon Fischer, J.F. Matlik, W.D. Schindel, M.O. French, M.H. Kabir, J.S. Ganguli, M. Hardwick, S.M. Arnold, A.D. Byar, J.-H. Lewe, S. Mahadevan, S. Duncan, J. J. Dong, D. A. Kinard, A. Maiaru, Digital Twin: Reference Model, Realizations and Recommendations, INCOSE INSIGHT Magazine, 2022.

• Meyer, R., Bridgeland, B., Woldekidan, K., Webster, B., Charan, T., Lewe, J.-H., Olgyay, V. & Zaleski, S., GT Flex: A Coordinated MultiBuilding Pilot Study. Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory. NREL/TP5500-80279. 2021

• Brooks, J., Lewe, J.-H., et al. “Cistern Thermal Energy Storage Study for Potential Use within Net Positive Energy and Water Buildings” AIAA 2021-3363.​

• S. Oh, J.-H. Lewe, E. Yarbasi, J. Brooks, S. Duncan & D.N. Mavris, “A Scalable Intra-Network Building Heat Exchange Model for District Cooling Systems”, AIAA P&E 2020. ​

• Sharma, K. & Lewe, J.-H., “Ranking Volatility in Building Energy Consumption Using Ensemble Learning and Information Entropy,” Georgia Journal of Science, Vol. 74, No. 3, Article 1. 2019.

• J.-H. Lewe, S. Duncan, K. Song, S. Oh, H. Solano, E. Yarbasi, J. Ahuja, H. Johnston & D. Mavris, A Comprehensive Energy Monitoring Environment for District Energy Grid Systems. In 15th International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 2017.

• H. Solano, S. Oh, J.-H. Lewe, & D. Mavris, A Building Thermal Demand Model for a District Energy System, In 14th International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 2016.

• S. Wojnarska, J.-H. Lewe, K. Song, S. Duncan, A Parametric Modeling of Water-to-air Heat Exchanger Based on CFD Analysis. In 14th International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 2016.

• J.-H. Lewe, L. Hivin & D. Mavris, A multi-paradigm approach to system dynamics modeling of intercity transportation, Transportation Research Part E, Vol. 71, 2014, pp. 188–202.

• J.-H. Lewe, M. Miller & K. Kelly, Agent-Based Modeling for Smart Grid: Consumer Reaction to Demand Response, 22th Annual INCOSE International Symposium, Rome, Italy, July 2012.

• A. Lowe, H. Fu, J.-H. Lewe, D. Mavris & S. Lee, Design Tradeoff for Regenerative Energy Management in an Electromechanical Actuation System, 11th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference, Virginia Beach, VA, Sept. 2011.

• C. Lim, J.-H. Lewe & D. Mavris, An Agent-Based Approach for Modeling the Commercial Air Transportation Network System, Air Transport Research Society World Conference, Berkley, CA, June 2007.

• J.-H. Lewe, D. DeLaurentis, D. Mavris & D. Schrage, Entity-centric Abstraction and Modeling Framework for Transportation Architectures, Journal of Air Transportation, 11(3), 2006, pp. 3-33. (Received the Sorenson Best Paper Award)

• J.-H. Lewe et al., Identification of Design Requirements Through Agent-based Simulation for Personal Air Vehicle System, AIAA’s Aircraft Technology, Integration, and Operations 2002 Technical Forum, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 2002.