Affiliated Researchers: Planning

Minghui Zhu

Professor, Electrical Engineering
Top research keywords: Reinforcement Learning, Multiple Robot, And-States, Motion Planning, Robot

Ken Tamminga

Distinguished Professor, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Rivers, River, Learning, Climate Change, Sustainable Development

Chingwen Cheng

Professor, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Climate Change, Climate Justice, Environmental Impact Assessment, Ecosystem Service, Social-ecological-technological Systems

Sean Brennan

Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Road, Vehicle Dynamics, Path Planning, Robotics, Vehicle Localization

Brian Black

Division Head and Distinguished Professor, History, Division of Arts & Humanities (Altoona)
Top research keywords: Energy Landscape, Climate Change, United States, Petroleum, Economic Development

Herschel Pangborn

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Predictive Control Model, Zonotopes, Model Predictive Control, Hierarchical Control, Thermal Management System

Mort Webster

Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Power Generation, Texas, Air Quality, Electricity Generation, Power Engineering

Antonia Hadjimichael

Assistant Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Vulnerability, Exploratory Modelling, Water Scarcity, River Basin, Urban Heat Island

Mallika Bose

Professor, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: India, Transport, United States, Low Income, Focus Group

Lisa Iulo

Professor, Architecture
Top research keywords: Ecodesign, Energy Consumption, Integrative Design, Energy Performance, Affordable Housing

Jacob Langelaan

Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Top research keywords: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Path Planning, Rotorcraft, UAV, Simulation Result

Darryl Farber

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

William F. Elmendorf

Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Urban Parks, Arborists, Foresters, Arborist, Urban Forest

Bryan McDonald

Sherwin Early Career Professorship and Associate Professor, History
Top research keywords: Americas, Environmental Change, Food Systems, Hostility, Culture Industry

Peter Aeschbacher

Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture

Matthew Royer

Associate Research Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Chesapeake Bay, Watersheds, Decision Making, Temporal Inequalities, Watershed Management

Daniel Guide

Smeal Chair Professor, Supply Chain and Information Systems
Top research keywords: Remanufacturing, Closed-loop Supply Chain, Product Returns, Remanufactured Products, Production Planning

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

Mohamad Darayi

Associate Professor of Systems Engineering, Engineering Division (Great Valley)
Top research keywords: Network Components, Vulnerability, Disruptions, Multi-industry, Freight Transportation

Allyson Muth

Assistant Research Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Landowner, Landowners, Natural Resource, High Grading, Microtargeting

Paul H. Heinemann

Department Head and Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Apple, Apple Orchard, Frost Protection, Electronic Nose, Robotics

Nathan Brown

Associate Professor, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Early Design Phases, Design Space, Early Stage, Embodied Carbon, Architectural Design

Anirudh Subramanyam

Assistant Professor, Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Top research keywords: Vehicle Routing, Optimization Problem, Realization, Routing Problem, Computational Experiment

Lara Fowler

Teaching Professor, Penn State Law (University Park)
Top research keywords: Stakeholder Engagement, United States, Water Management, Health Impact, Nonpoint Source

Edward (Ted) Reutzel

Top research keywords: Additive Manufacturing, Powder Bed Fusion, Directed Energy Deposition, Ti-6Al-4V (Ti64), Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing

Houtan Jebelli

Assistant Professor, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Electroencephalography, Robots, Robotics, Biosensors, Wearable Sensors

Charles Andrew Cole

Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Pennsylvania, Wetlands, United States Of America, Hydrogeomorphic, Flood Plain

José Duarte

Professor and Stuckeman Chair in Design Innovation, Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Shape Grammar, Grammar, Design System, Urban Design, Mass Customization

Charles Ray

Associate Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Lumber, Kilns, Hardwoods, Wood, Drying

Hannah Wiseman

Associate Professor, Penn State Law (University Park)
Top research keywords: Legislation, Energy Law, Law, Federalism, Energy Governance

Manzhu Yu

Associate Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Dust Storm, Particular Matter 2.5, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Deep Learning

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)

Anne Menefee

Assistant Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Carbon Dioxide, Basalt, Shale, Carbonate, Greenhouse Gas

Peter Stempel

Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Storm, Rhode Island, Real Time, Coastal Hazards, Storm Surge

Long He

Associate Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Apple, Mechanical Harvesting, Apple Orchard, Computer Vision, Orchard

Leland Glenna

Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: USA, Agricultural Biotechnology, Scientists, Genetically Modified Crops, University Research

Suresh Muthulingam

Professor, Supply Chain and Information Systems
Top research keywords: Environmental Performance, Supply Chain Management, Energy Efficiency, Quality Performance, Manufacturing Firms

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

Vivek Srikrishnan

Assistant Research Professor, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
Top research keywords: Uncertainty, Sea Level Rise, Climate, Risk Management, Flood Hazard

Ashkan Negahban

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