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Jason Koh
Biography
Jason Koh is a PhD candidate of Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, San Diego. His work ranges from data mining to system design for data management for IoT, Smart Buildings, and sustainable society. He is now a lead maintainer of BRICK schema (brickschema.org), which is being adopted as an industry standard. He is also a recipient of CNI fellowship and several awards at BuildSys.
Interests
- Smart Building
- Interoperability
- Semantic Web
- The Internet of Things
Education
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Pursuing Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
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B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2014
Seoul National University
Selected Publications
Tutorial: Building Metadata Normalization with Plaster
A tutorial of metadata normalization technology and an overview of Plaster user interface.
Jason Koh, Dezhi Hong, Yuvraj Agarwal, Rajesh K. Gupta
BuildSys2019
Beyond a House of Sticks: Formalizing Metadata Tags with Brick
Formalized version of Brick, enabling seamless verification and more consistency across buildings.
Gabe Fierro, Jason Koh, Yuvraj Agarwal, Rajesh K. Gupta, David E. Culler
BuildSys2019
Who can Access What, and When? Understanding Minimal Access Requirements of Building Applications
An analysis of ~100 papers to identify access control model for smart building applications.
Jason Koh, Dezhi Hong, Shreyas Nagare, Sudershan Boovaraghavan, Yuvraj Agarwal, Rajesh K. Gupta
BuildSys2019
Plaster: an integration, benchmark, and development framework for metadata normalization methods
A meta-framework for metadata normalization algorithms (like Scikit-learn for generic machine learning.)
**Jason Koh**, Dezhi Hong, Rajesh Gupta, Kamin Whitehouse, Hongning Wang, Yuvraj Agarwal
BuildSys2018
Scrabble: Transferrable Semi-Automated Semantic Metadata Normalization using Intermediate Representation
Metadata normalization in buildings into Brick for many buildings. It exploits Brick's structure as an intermediate representation for knowledge transfer.
**Jason Koh**, Bharathan Balaji, Dhiman Sengupta, Julian McAuley, Yuvraj Agarwal, Rajesh Gupta
BuildSys2018
Brick : Metadata Schema for Portable Smart Building Applications
Journal version of Brick BuildSys2016
(Alphabetically) Bharathan Balaji, Arka Bhattacharya, Gabe Fierro, Jingkun Gao, Joshua Gluck, Dezhi Hong, Aslak Johansen, **Jason Koh**, Yuvraj Agarwal, Mario Berges, David Culler, Rajesh Gupta, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Joern Ploennigs, Kamin Whitehouse
AppliedEnergy2018
Genie: a longitudinal study comparing physical and software thermostats in office buildings
Comparison between physical thermostat and software thermostat on buildings, Genie
Bharathan Balaji, **Jason Koh**, Nadir Weibel, Yuvraj Agarwal
UbiComp2016
Recent Publications
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Tutorial: Building Metadata Normalization with Plaster
BuildSys2019 -
Interactive Building Metadata Normalization
BuildSys2019 -
Beyond a House of Sticks: Formalizing Metadata Tags with Brick
BuildSys2019 -
Who can Access What, and When? Understanding Minimal Access Requirements of Building Applications
BuildSys2019 -
New Models and Methods for Programming Cyber-Physical Systems (Keynote)
LCTES2019 -
Plaster: an integration, benchmark, and development framework for metadata normalization methods
BuildSys2018 -
Scrabble: Transferrable Semi-Automated Semantic Metadata Normalization using Intermediate Representation
BuildSys2018 -
Brick : Metadata Schema for Portable Smart Building Applications
AppliedEnergy2018 -
Poster: Scrabble: Converting Unstructured Metadata into Brick for Many Buildings
BuildSys2017 -
Poster: Data Hub Architecture for Smart Cities
SenSys2017
Source Code
- UCSD Building Data Sharing: I share time sereis data and metadata of sensors in buildings of UCSD.
- Brick: Brick is an opensource unified metadata schema for buildings. It has an active community. Please contact me if you have interests in building metadata.
- Scrabble
- Plaster
Teaching
Teaching Assistant
- CSE237B: Software for Embedded Computing (2016-Spring)