Wangda Zuo's lab contributes to the development of multiple major open-source tools, including Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Modelica Buildings library and NREL’s URBANopt. He is the associate editor of the Journal of Solar Energy Engineering and treasurer and affiliate director of International Building Performance Simulation Association. He has served as the principal investigator for more than 30 research projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.