01 / Connected systems
Sensing, IoT, and data pipelines
Environmental sensors, Raspberry Pi, Pico W, MQTT, cellular and cloud routing, workflow automation, dashboards, surveys, and messaging.
Industry engineering profile
From building questions to working technical systems.
The engineering portfolio develops and evaluates sensing, simulation, control, and decision-support workflows for buildings and occupants. The emphasis is end-to-end ownership: requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, results, and verification.
End-to-endwearable, edge, cloud, dashboard, and feedback integration
20,000+simulation records used in a neural-network surrogate
PTAC + VAVsystem sensitivity and optimization studies
Publishedparametric-to-control shading workflow
Capabilities
How the work is approached.
Methods and tools are organized around the question, system, and evidence - not presented as an isolated software inventory.
02 / Building performance
Energy, daylight, comfort, and HVAC
EnergyPlus, TRNSYS/TRNBUILD, Radiance, Ladybug/Honeybee, envelope analysis, daylight, glare, thermal comfort, and system comparison.
03 / Computation
Parametric design and machine learning
Rhino/Grasshopper, multi-objective optimization, Python workflows, regression, neural networks, PCA, clustering, and surrogate modeling.
04 / Verification
Testing, validation, and quality assurance
Traceable assumptions, sensitivity studies, held-out comparisons, field troubleshooting, QA, and reproducible reporting.
Industry translation
What the work can deliver inside a technical team.
System architecture
Requirements, interfaces, data flow, component selection, and traceable implementation decisions.
Performance evidence
Simulation, field measurements, sensitivity analysis, validation logic, and decision-ready reporting.
Working prototypes
Connected devices, automation workflows, dashboards, adaptive controls, and testable user feedback.
Cross-disciplinary coordination
Technical communication across engineers, researchers, designers, stakeholders, and study participants.
Flagship work
Five engineering case studies.
Connected sensing, adaptive facades, whole-building performance, HVAC sensitivity, and predictive modeling.
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01LuxRest
A wearable-to-cloud system connecting light sensing, embedded hardware, MQTT, automation, dashboards, surveys, and messaging.
- Field-deployed prototype
- 18 operational records · 14 completers
- Wearable-to-cloud feedback pipeline
02Intelligent Shading System
An end-to-end workflow linking parametric geometry, Radiance and energy simulation, NSGA-II optimization, regression, and control logic.
- Peer-reviewed case study
- Parametric-to-control workflow
- NSGA-II multi-objective optimization
03EnergyPlus Building-Performance Analysis
A staged EnergyPlus study of a DOE small-office model, testing simulation settings, envelope assemblies, lighting, shading, and HVAC alternatives.
- 363.95 to 288.14 GJ modeled total
- 20.8% reduction across the documented sequence
- PTAC and VAV sensitivity testing
04Predictive CFD with Neural Networks
A neural-network surrogate trained on more than 20,000 simulation records to explore faster performance feedback for building analysis.
- 20,000+ hourly records
- 13 simulation inputs
- Held-out test comparison
05Home for Life Performance Study
TRNSYS models of ventilation, ground heat exchange, shading, solar thermal, and BIPV reveal how system choices change energy and comfort.
- Whole-building simulation study
- Energy, comfort, daylight, and controls
- Full technical report available
Related work
Additional evidence and applications.
Related engineering work adds integrated performance studies, field sensing, decision prototypes, healthcare systems, and adaptive reuse.
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01NEO-TULOU
Daylight, energy, comfort, HVAC, envelope, and detail studies developed alongside the NEO-TULOU architectural proposal.
- Integrated design and performance study
- Daylight, comfort, energy, and HVAC comparison
- Technical reports available
02Indoor Air Quality in Low-Income Housing
A 54-household Philadelphia field program showing how community partnerships, privacy, connectivity, monitor selection, and deployment logistics determine the quality of residential IAQ evidence.
- First-author conference paper
- 54-household recruitment frame
- 11 installations · 5 usable datasets
03ET4WIBE Roadmap
A 17-author roadmap for moving enabling technologies for wellbeing-oriented intelligent buildings from isolated components toward usable, interoperable systems.
- Lead author and framework developer
- 17-author research roadmap
- Public SSRN preprint
04Schools as Critical Infrastructure
A decision-support framework for prioritizing school investments across resources, urgency, regulation, uncertainty, equity, stakeholders, and governance.
- 20 services across seven categories
- Transparent RURU decision space
- Interactive research prototype
05Behavioral Health Emergency Department
A third-place healthcare concept combining behavioral-health planning, a calmer patient experience, and an integrated all-outdoor-air HVAC strategy.
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Risk-Based Ventilation for Indoor Sports
A Wells–Riley analysis comparing outdoor-air ventilation and portable-air-cleaner capacity for infection-risk control in a sports-center scenario.
07Vernacular Cooling for Philadelphia
Comparative climate and precedent analysis connecting Guilan’s humid-climate passive strategies with contemporary overheating questions in Philadelphia housing.
- Active working paper
- Two humid-climate contexts
- Testable passive-design principles
08Lecco Hiking Centre Renovation
An adaptive-reuse proposal transforming an existing site in Lecco into a hiking and mountain-sports hub with renewed circulation, envelope, and public identity.
