Affiliated Researchers: Building System

Seth Blumsack

Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Natural Gas, Power Engineering, United States, Power Grid, Joints (Structural Components)

Joseph Najem

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Memristor, Droplet Interface Bilayer, Lipid Bilayer, Biomembranes, Actuator

Ashkan Negahban

Associate Professor of Engineering Management, Engineering Division (Great Valley)
Top research keywords: Simulated Environment, Simulation-based Learning, Agent-based Simulation, Decision-Making, Simulation Model

Stuart Patton Echols

Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Stormwater Management, Stormwater, Rainwater, Rain Water, First Flush

Colin Zarzycki

Associate Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Tropical Cyclone, Tropical Cyclones, Climate Modeling, Variable Resolution, Earth System Model

Gordon Warn

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Sequential Decision Process, Decision Process, Trade Space Exploration, Finite Element Modeling, Structural Frames

Tak-Sing Wong

Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Surface (Surface Science), Carbon Nanotubes, Carbon Nanotube, Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes (MWCNTs), Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube

Sohail Anwar

Professor, Division of Business, Engineering, and Information Sciences & Technology (Altoona)
Top research keywords: Engineering Technology, Engineering, Penn State, Baccalaureate Degree, Electromechanical Engineering

Konstantinos Alexopoulos

Assistant Research Professor, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: ZSM-5, Microkinetic Modeling, Single-atom Catalysts, Butene, Formation

David Craft

Professor Emeritus, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Top research keywords: Acinetobacter Baumannii, Military Facilities, Iraq, Microbiology, Acinetobacter

Claude dePamphilis

Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Angiosperm, Angiosperms, Parasitic Plants, Parasitic Plant, Cladistics

Robin Guanghua Qiu

Professor, Engineering Division (Great Valley)
Top research keywords: Gas Fuel Manufacture, Production Line, Semiconductor Manufacturing, Shop Floor, Information Systems

Dale Litwhiler

Associate Professor, Division of Engineering, Business & Computing (Berks)
Top research keywords: Engineering Technology, Mechanical Engineering, LabVIEW, Energy Harvesting, Accelerometer

Sez Atamturktur

Harry and Arlene Schell Professor, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Uncertainty, Calibration, Numerical Models, Experiment, Model Calibration

Sridhar Anandakrishnan

Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Antarctic Region, West Antarctica, Ice Sheet, Ice Stream, Greenland

John (Jay) Regan

Professor of Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Microbial Fuel Cell, Biofilm, Reactor, Air-cathode Microbial Fuel Cell, Acetate

Min Ding

Bard Professor, Marketing
Top research keywords: Conjoint Analysis, Conjoint, Performance Prediction, Consumer Preferences, Audio Data

Douglas Wrenn

Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Subdivision Development, Residential Subdivisions, Pennsylvania, Shale Gas Development, Residential Development

Marek Flaska

Associate Professor, Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering
Top research keywords: Neutron, Gamma Radiation, Scintillation Counter, Pulse Shape Discrimination, Pulse Shape

Daniel Brent

Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Willingness To Pay, Social Comparison, Traffic Congestion, Water Cost

Francesco Di Gioia

Associate Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Anaerobic Soil Disinfestation, Microgreens, Fresh Tomato, Tomato Production, Irrigation

Vikash Gayah

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram, Traffic Signal, Urban Network, Safety Performance, Traffic Network

Dave Abler

Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: China, Agriculture, Nonpoint, Susquehanna River, Meta-analysis

Sergei Koshkin

Assistant Research Professor, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
Top research keywords: Kabachnik-Fields Reaction, Sc(III), Pyridoxine, Transport Properties, P2 Receptors

Karen Fisher-Vanden

Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: China, Integrated Assessment Model, Climate Change Impacts, Energy Intensity, Carbon Tax

Kostas Papakonstantinou

Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Partially Observable Markov Decision Process, Reinforcement Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning (deep RL), Markov Decision Process, Lifecycle

Robert Leicht

Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Building Information Modeling, Construction Industry, Retrofit, Construction Projects, Constructability

Bernd J. Haupt

Senior Research Associate, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
Top research keywords: Conveyor, North Atlantic, Global Ocean, Ocean Circulation, Sea Surface Salinity

Elia Merzari

Professor, Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering
Top research keywords: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Large Eddy Simulation, Nek5000, Direct Numerical Simulation, Rod Bundle

Mare Sarr

Associate Professor, School of International Affairs
Top research keywords: Technological Change, International Transfer Of Technology, Race-ethnicity, Risk Preferences, Rebound Effect

John Hellmann

Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research, College of Earth & Mineral Sciences
Top research keywords: Fibers, Sapphire, Fiber, Composite Materials, Float Glass

Suvrat Dhanorkar

Associate Professor, Supply Chain and Information Systems
Top research keywords: Waste Exchange, Material Exchange, Online Material, Supply Chain Management, Toxic Release

Luis Ayala

William A. Fustos Family Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Gas Reservoir, Gas Well, Gas Condensate Reservoir, Production Data, Condensate Gas

Ryan Harne

Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Energy Harvesting, Harvesters, Vibration, Metamaterials, Energy

Darryl Farber

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering Design and Innovation
Top research keywords: Scenario Planning, Philosophy Of Engineering, Nuclear Power, Engineered System, Waste Sites

Brian Fronk

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Microchannel, Pressure Drop, Supercritical Carbon Dioxide, Condensation, High Temperature

Ruairidh Sawers

Assistant Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Maize, Zea Mays, Zea, Allele, Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi

Brian Kelley

Assistant Professor in Geosciences, Geosciences
Top research keywords: China, Permian, South China, Carbonate Platform, End-Permian Mass Extinction

Megan Schall

Top research keywords: Smallmouth Bass, Susquehanna River, Micropterus Dolomieu, Pennsylvania, Fisheries

Sally Mackenzie

Lloyd and Dottie Huck Chair for Functional Genomics and Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Mitochondrial Genome, Arabidopsis, Fertility, Plastids, Male Infertility