Yanning Li
Postdoctoral Researcher at National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Golden, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYanning Li is a postdoctoral researcher with seven years' experience at the intersection of transportation electrification and building energy systems, currently based at NREL in Golden, Colorado. She combines rigorous energy systems modeling and data analysis—developed during a PhD at UC Davis and an MS at ETH Zurich—with practical code contributions to open-source tools like EnergyPlus, focusing on simulation fidelity and build integration. Her work spans EV-grid integration, demand modeling for large power systems (including prior IEA projects on China’s power transformation), and peer-to-peer energy trading analytics. Known for bridging research and reproducible engineering, she brings domain depth in controls and modeling alongside hands-on software maintenance that improves widely used simulation workflows.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Energy Systems, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Energy Systems at University of California, DavisBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Engineering and Automation, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Engineering and Automation at Tsinghua UniversityMaster of Science, Energy Science and Technology, Master of Science, Energy Science and Technology at ETH Zurich
Chinese, English
Github Skills (6)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
text-formatting10
energyplus9
build-system7
cmake7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
NatLabRockies/EnergyPlus
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
EnergyPlus™ is a whole building energy simulation program that engineers, architects, and researchers use to model both energy consumption and water use in buildings.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 11 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Yanning primarily worked on modifications and improvements related to the `WeatherManager.cc` file, focusing on date and time formatting. They made small adjustments, including casting variables and adding zero padding. Additionally, the user resolved conflicts, likely related to documentation updates, within the `cmake/Install.cmake` file, indicating contributions to build and installation processes. This suggests a focus on code maintenance and potential build system integration.
energyplussimulation
YanfeiNREL/modelica-buildings
Nov 2019 - Mar 2020
Modelica Buildings library
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
buildingsmodelica
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