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Academic research profile

Building intelligence that stays accountable to people.

Human-centered building intelligence: measuring environmental conditions, understanding occupant response, and translating evidence into practical action.

Publications and manuscripts

The approach

Measurement to practical action.

This research connects environmental sensing, human-subject fieldwork, evidence synthesis, and occupant-facing systems. The recurring question is how measurements can become information and action without hiding uncertainty, context, or human agency.

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Evidence at a glance

647qualified publications in the TRIAD evidence map

54homes in an occupied-housing IAQ study

17authors coordinated in the ET4WIBE roadmap

Field-readywearable-to-cloud sensing and feedback workflow

01 / Measure

Environmental sensing and field deployment

Near-eye light, indoor air quality, connected devices, calibration, deployment preparation, data continuity, and participant protocols.

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02 / Study

Human-subject and mixed-methods research

Experimental design, IRB protocols, repeated measures, surveys, interviews, qualitative coding, and convergent interpretation.

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03 / Analyze

Time series, statistics, and evidence synthesis

Data quality, visualization, regression, mixed effects, PCA, clustering, structured review, evidence mapping, and reproducible interpretation.

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04 / Translate

Occupant-facing building intelligence

Dashboards, feedback, controls, decision frameworks, and prototypes that keep interpretation and practical action in the loop.

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Explore the tools

Engineering Lab

Run thermal scenarios, inspect system pathways, compare simulation results, and explore decision frameworks.

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Flagship work

Five flagship research programs.

Field deployment, systematic evidence, publication, interdisciplinary synthesis, and implementation-oriented building systems.

All Lighting & Circadian Health Indoor Air Quality & Ventilation Building Performance Intelligent Buildings Climate & Resilience

12 projects · All research work

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Field-deployed system2023–2026

LuxRest

Contribution: Research lead: sensing-to-cloud integration, deployment, dashboards, and participant feedback.
Result: Field-deployed pipeline; 18 operational records and 14 completers.

Final manuscript figure showing biological responses, light-exposure systems, and occupant engagement as the Circadian-Supportive Lighting Triad.

Systematic evidence map2025–present

Circadian-Supportive Lighting Triad

Contribution: First author and project lead: framework, screening, synthesis, and evidence visualization.
Result: 647 publications mapped; occupant engagement appears in 9.6% of study families.

Residential indoor-air-quality monitors shown with rowhouse context, fieldwork domains, and environmental data traces.

Published mixed-methods study2022–2024

Indoor Air Quality in Low-Income Housing

Contribution: First author: field deployment, monitoring workflow, mixed-methods synthesis, and publication.
Result: Published four-domain fieldwork framework and seven implementation recommendations.

Conceptual editorial building section connecting sensing, intelligent controls, occupant interfaces, and staged deployment.

Research roadmap · Preprint2023–present

ET4WIBE Roadmap

Contribution: Lead author and framework developer; coordinated the 17-author synthesis.
Result: Technology stack and staged validation roadmap, available as a public preprint.

Conceptual editorial rendering of a responsive exterior shading façade under changing daylight.

Peer-reviewed engineering study2021 · Article published 2024

Intelligent Shading System

Contribution: Co-developed simulation, optimization, preference modeling, and live control; first author.
Result: Published five-strategy comparison, Pareto-front optimization, and a live controller demonstration.

Related work

The research archive extends beyond the flagship studies into decision frameworks, climate adaptation, building performance, and transparent exploratory analysis.

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Five-layer decision-support architecture with a front-end interface and AI assistant over computational, dynamic, and static back-end layers.

ResearchEngineeringDesign2023–2026

Schools 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

Axonometric drawing of rowhouse-scale nature-based heat-mitigation strategies.

ResearchDesign2026

Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Heat and Health

A research chapter connecting nature-based urban and building strategies with heat-health benefits, implementation constraints, and questions of equitable access.

Conceptual comparative section joining an elevated vernacular house in Guilan with a shaded and naturally ventilated Philadelphia rowhouse.

ResearchEngineeringDesign

Vernacular 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

Predictive CFD neural-network workflow pairing the 13-to-13-to-8-to-1 model architecture with held-out predicted-versus-simulated indoor-temperature results.

Simulation surrogate model2022

Predictive CFD with Neural Networks

Contribution: Data preparation, ANN development, held-out evaluation, and team reporting.
Result: 20,000+ hourly records; 13-input ANN evaluated against held-out temperature outputs.

Conceptual cutaway office building showing envelope layers, daylight, internal loads, HVAC paths, and progressively reduced energy stacks.

Building-performance simulation2022

EnergyPlus Building-Performance Analysis

Contribution: Individual model audit, staged optimization, and PTAC/VAV sensitivity analysis.
Result: 20.8% modeled reduction: 363.95 → 288.14 GJ, with stage-by-stage end-use accounting.

Integrated building-performance presentation for the Home for Life active-house precedent.

Integrated building simulation2020

Home for Life Performance Study

Contribution: Collaborative building modeling, system analysis, and ventilation/control representation.
Result: Hourly and annual system comparisons, with ventilation automation traced in the full report.

ResearchEngineering2021

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.

Measurement to practical action.

Environmental sensing and field deployment

Human-subject and mixed-methods research

Time series, statistics, and evidence synthesis

Occupant-facing building intelligence

Engineering Lab

Five flagship research programs.

LuxRest

Circadian-Supportive Lighting Triad

Indoor Air Quality in Low-Income Housing

ET4WIBE Roadmap

Intelligent Shading System

Additional evidence and applications.

Schools as Critical Infrastructure

Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Heat and Health

Vernacular Cooling for Philadelphia

Predictive CFD with Neural Networks

EnergyPlus Building-Performance Analysis

Home for Life Performance Study

Risk-Based Ventilation for Indoor Sports

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