Affiliated Researchers: Modeling

Ming Xiao

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Subgrade, Permafrost, Pavement, Subbase, Experimental Investigation

Jeff D. Yanosky

Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Top research keywords: Particulate Matter 2.5 (PM2.5), PM10, Particulate Matter, Confidence Interval, Air Pollution

Julio Urbina

Professor, Electrical Engineering
Top research keywords: Meteors, Radar Systems, Radar Tracking, Radar Observations, Radar System

Armen Kemanian

Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Maize, Grains, Cover Crop, Soil Organic Carbon, Cover Crops

William Bahnfleth

Professor, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation, Chilled Water, Storage Tank, Air Quality, Irradiation System

David Bice

Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Stratotype, Eocene-Oligocene Boundary, Oligocene, Eccentricity, Eocene

Shunli Shang

Research Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: First-principles Calculations, Density, Density Functional Theory, Alloying, Elastic Moduli

Virendra M. Puri

Distinguished Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Powders, Hot Temperature, Moisture, Heat Exchangers, Temperature

Joan Redwing

Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Film, Chemical Vapor Deposition, Nanowire, Thin Films, Silicon

Stephen Schaeffer

Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Drosophila, Gene Order, Drosophila Pseudoobscura, Chromosome Inversion, Chromosomes

David Pollard

Senior Scientist, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
Top research keywords: Ice Sheet, Ice, Climate, Climate Modeling, Simulation

Gopal Bhatt

Assistant Research Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Penn State
Top research keywords: hydrology, open-source, watershed, watershed modeling, geographical information systems

David M. Beyer

Professor, Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology
Top research keywords: Mushroom Substrate, Substrate Preparation, Agaricus Bisporus, Hypnum, Spawning

Ute Poerschke

Professor of Architecture, Architecture
Top research keywords: Environmental Sensitivity, Microclimate, Building Information Modeling, Building Performance, Technical System

Robert Crane

Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: General Circulation Model, Sea Ice, Downscaling, Climate, Ice

Melissa Gervais

Associate Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: North Atlantic, Sea Surface Temperature, Self Organizing Map, Atmospherics, North America

Laifang Li

Assistant Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: North Atlantic, United States, Southeastern United States, North Atlantic Subtropical High, Sea Surface Temperature

Pengfei Zhang

Assistant Research Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Arctic Sea, Temperate Region, Eurasia, North America, Polar Vortex

Gordon Warn

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

Robert Nicholas

Associate Research Professor, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
Top research keywords: Climate Change, Flood Risk, United States Of America, Climate Modeling, United States

Jenni L. Evans

Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Tropical Cyclone, Cyclone, Transition, Cyclogenesis, Forecast

Jia Li

Professor, Statistics
Top research keywords: Annotation, Hidden Markov Model, Information Retrieval, Content-based Image Retrieval, Image Database

Chris Forest

Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Climate Change, Climate Modeling, Climate Models, Climate System, Earth System Model

Kostas Papakonstantinou

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

Yimin Zhu

Associate Professor, Division of Mathematics & Natural Sciences (Altoona)
Top research keywords: Monolignol, Lignification, Lignin, P-coumarate, Facile Synthesis

Li Li

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Reactive Transport, Carbon Dioxide, Solute, Dissolved Organic Carbon, Streamflow

Konstantinos Alexopoulos

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

Steven Greybush

Associate Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Data Assimilation, Atmospherics, Mars, Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF), Martian Atmosphere

Gregory Jenkins

Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Climate Modeling, Western Africa, West Africa, Senegal, Troposphere

Uday V. Shanbhag

Gary and Sheila Bello Chair Professor, Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Top research keywords: Game, Nash Equilibrium, Variational Inequality Problem, Convex Optimization, Stochastic Optimization

Mehrdad Mahdavi

Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Harmony Search, Neural Network, Optimization Problem, Gradient Descent, Approximation (Algorithm)

Michael Janik

Professor, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Density, Density Functional Theory, Surface (Surface Science), Oxidation Reaction, Density Functional Calculations

Robert Rioux

Professor, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Nanoparticle, Platinum, Surface (Surface Science), Hydrogenation, Oxidation Reaction

Guido Cervone

Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Atmospherics, Remote Sensing, Analog Ensemble, Machine Learning, Earthquake

Gourab Saha

Meng Wang

Assistant Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Anaerobic Co-digestion, Wastewater Treatment, Wastewater, Microalgae, Anaerobic Digestion

Susan Sinnott

Department Head and Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Density, Surface (Surface Science), Carbon Nanotube, Computer Simulation

Lauren McPhillips

Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Stormwater, Denitrification, Solar Farm, Methane, Stormwater Management

Olumide Ogunmodimu

Assistant Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Concentrated Solar Power Technologies, Rheology, Northern Nigeria, Digital Elevation Model, Mechanistic Model

Xingchao Chen

Assistant Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Thermodynamics, Convective System, Mesoscale Convective Systems, China, Tropical Cyclone