Affiliated Researchers

Affiliates are Penn Staters who have a connection to or an interest in the work of the Institute of Energy and the Environment. Currently, 1018 faculty and researchers from across Penn State, including the Commonwealth campuses, are affiliates of IEE.

Ruohao Zhang


Assistant Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Vaccination Record, Economic Impact Payments, Air Quality, COVID-19 Disparities, Moderna

Sulin Zhang


Professor, Engineering Science and Mechanics
Top research keywords: Carbon Nanotube, Lithiation, Silicon, Nanoparticle, Lithium Ion Battery

Yi Zhang


Assistant Professor, Food Science
Top research keywords: Transglutaminase, Gelatin, Bioprocess, Food Enzyme, Alcalase

Yiqi Zhang


Associate Professor, Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Top research keywords: Automated Vehicles, Lead Time, Connected Vehicle Systems, Situation Awareness, Driving Style

Yunji Zhang


Assistant Research Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Thermodynamics, All-sky, Tropical Cyclone, Thunderstorm, China

Jie Zhao


Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Software Engineering, School of Engineering (Behrend)
Top research keywords: Wind Power Ramps, Wind Power, Power Production, Conventional Method, Power Generation

Linghao Zhong


Professor of Chemistry, Penn State Mont Alto
Top research keywords: Cellulose, Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Cellulose Surface, Cellulose Nanofibrils, CBH I

Zihan Zhou


Assistant Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology
Top research keywords: Face Recognition, Sparse Representation, Convolutional Neural Network, Art Performance, Wireframe

Linxiao Zhu


Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Radiative Heat Transfer, Near-field, Radiative Cooling, Near-field Radiative Heat Transfer, Thermal Radiation

Minghui Zhu


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

Tieyuan Zhu


Associate Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Wave Equation, Viscoacoustic, Attenuation, Fractional Laplacian, Reaction Time

Xiaoyang Zhu


Assistant Research Professor, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Top research keywords: Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptor, Peroxisome Proliferator Activated Receptor, Liver Carcinogenesis, Hepatocarcinogenesis, PPAR Agonist

Yimin Zhu


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

Gregory Ziegler


Professor, Food Science
Top research keywords: Starch, Chocolate, Amylose, Milk Chocolate, Electrospinning

Karl Zimmerer


Distinguished Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Agrobiodiversity, Bolivia, Andes, Environmental Impact Assessment, Geography

Katherine Zipp


Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: United States, Prescribed Fire, Landowner, Park Visitors, Bioenergy

Wangda Zuo


Professor, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Fluid Dynamics, Air Flow, Fast Fluid Dynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Office Buildings

Andrew Zydney


Distinguished Professor, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Ultrafiltration, Nanofiltration Membrane, Fouling, Microfiltration, Monoclonal Antibody