Affiliated Researchers: Planning Environment

Chingwen Cheng

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

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

Ken Tamminga

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

Brian Black

Division Head and Distinguished Professor, History, Division of Arts & Humanities (Altoona)
Top research keywords: Energy Landscape, Petroleum, Human Living, World War I, Apparatus

Mallika Bose

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

Antonia Hadjimichael

Assistant Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Vulnerability, Exploratory Modelling, Water Scarcity, River Basin, Modeller

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

Lisa Iulo

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

William F. Elmendorf

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

Darryl Farber

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

John Messner

Charles and Elinor Matts Professor, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Information Modeling, Building Information Modeling, Case Study, Cyber-physical Systems, Construction Industry

Bryan McDonald

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

Lara Fowler

Senior Lecturer, Penn State Law (University Park)
Top research keywords: Stakeholder Engagement, Water Resources Management, Water Management, Climate Change, Washington

Erica Smithwick

Distinguished Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Climate Change, Pinus, Carbon Sink, Pennsylvania, Prescribed Fire

Peter Aeschbacher

Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture

Daniel Guide

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

Allyson Muth

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

Charles Andrew Cole

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

Houtan Jebelli

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

Herschel Pangborn

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

Robert Nicholas

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

Jonathan Duncan

Associate Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Nitrate, Urban Watershed, Storm, Denitrification, Base Flow

Charles Ray

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

Leland Glenna

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

Ashkan Negahban

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

Esther Obonyo

Professor, School of Engineering Design and Innovation
Top research keywords: Construction Worker, Posture Recognition, Recognition Model, Construction Workers, Injury Prevention

Hong Wu

Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: China, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Stormwater, Public Perception, Prescribed Fire

Suresh Muthulingam

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

Melissa Bopp

Professor, Kinesiology
Top research keywords: Physical Activity, College Students, Active Commuting, University Students, Transport

Ming Xiao

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

Christine J. Kirchhoff

Associate Professor, School of Engineering Design and Innovation
Top research keywords: Climate Information, Climate Change, Decision Making, Boundary Organization, Boundary Chain

Heather Preisendanz

Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Pennsylvania, Agricultural Fields, Wastewater, Estrogen, Emerging Contaminants

Jessica Conway

Associate Professor, Mathematics
Top research keywords: Dynamics, Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Rebound, Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection, Viral Load

Jennifer Baka

Associate Professor and John T. Ryan, Jr. Faculty Fellow, College of Earth & Mineral Sciences
Top research keywords: Biofuel, Wasteland, Hydraulic Fracturing, India, USA

Vivek Srikrishnan

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

Elsa Sánchez

Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Pennsylvania, Cultivar, Cultivar Evaluation, Growers, Muskmelon

Gamini Mendis

Assistant Professor of Engineering, School of Engineering (Behrend)
Top research keywords: Energy Consumption, Genetic Algorithm, Energy Conservation, Energy Efficiency, Machine Tool

Chris Fowler

Associate Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: USA, Population Censuses, United States, Poverty, Seattle

Jose D. Fuentes

Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Boundary Layer, Emissions, Isoprene, Amazon, Atmospherics

Cibin Raj

Associate Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Soil And Water Assessment Tool, Water Assessment Tool, Soil Investigation, Watersheds, Biofuel