Zheng O’Neill, Ph.D., P.E.
Dr. O’Neill is an Associate Professor at J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering in Texas A&M University at College Station. She was previously an Associate Professor at The University Of Alabama between 2013 to 2019. From 2006 to 2013, she was a Principal Investigator at United Technologies Research Center (UTRC), East Hartford, Connecticut, where she was responsible for the development and field-implement of advanced building optimal controls, building performance monitoring, energy diagnostics and low energy/net zero energy buildings. She was with Cimetrics in Boston as an Energy Analyst from 2005 to 2006. Originally from China, Dr. O’Neill received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Building and Environmental Thermal Systems Research Group at Oklahoma State University in 2004, and is a registered Professional Engineer. She has led or been involved with proposals leading to research awards totaling over $17 million and has over 90 journal and conference papers published. She is an active member of ASHRAE and IBPSA. She was a member of IBPSA–USA Board of Directors from 2011 to 2013. Currently, she is the Secretary of ASHRAE TC7.5 Smart Building Systems, and is on the Editorial Board of Journal of Building Performance Simulation & Science and Technology for the Built Environment.
ZOneill (at) tamu (dot) edu
Burcin Becerik-Gerber, DDes
Dr. Becerik-Gerber is a Professor and Director of Graduate Programs at the Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of University of Southern California. She is the founding director of the Innovation in Integrated Informatics LAB and the Center for Intelligent Environments, Technology and Society. Her research falls at the intersection of built environment, machine intelligence and systems thinking. Specifically, her work focuses on the acquisition, modeling, and analysis of the data needed for user-centered built environments, and the development of novel frameworks and visualization techniques to improve built-environment efficiency, while increasing user satisfaction. Dr. Becerik-Gerber graduated from Istanbul Technical University with a Bachelor of Architecture (1999) and an M.S. in Architecture (2001). She attended the University of California at Berkeley, where she received an M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering (2002). She earned her Doctor of Design (2006) degree from Harvard University in the field of Project Management and Information Systems. To date, she has published more than 120 peer-reviewed papers and her work has received support worth more than $6 million from a variety of sources. In 2012, Burcin been appointed as the inaugural holder of the Stephen Schrank Early Career Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering.
becerik (at) usc (dot) edu
Jin Wen, Ph.D.
Dr. Ji Wen is a Professor at the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering in Drexel University. Her research interests include building energy efficiency, building-grid integration, building control and operation, fault detection and diagnosis, and human-building interactions. Dr. Wen is actively engaged in teaching and research in the architectural engineering disciplines. She is examining energy-efficient control and operation algorithms for buildings and exploring the opportunities to improve indoor air quality and building safety. She has been the primary investigator on various research and educational projects sponsored by the National Science
Foundation, The Department of Energy, National Institute of Standards and Technology, American Society of Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), and others.
jinwen (at) drexel (dot) edu
Simi Hoque, Ph.D., P.E.
Simi Hoque is an associate professor in Architectural Engineering at Drexel University, where she runs a research program on Urban Metabolism. She was trained as an architect and an engineer, with degrees from the University of California-Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, and Johns Hopkins. Simi moved to Philadelphia in 2016, after spending a decade in Massachusetts, teaching at MIT and then at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. During this period, she was also working as a consulting engineer on the design of mechanical systems for high-performance buildings in eastern Massachusetts. Her research interests are high-performance design, construction, and operation of the built environment is critical to managing climate change and air pollution effects. Currently, her work focuses on modeling and analysis of buildings and urban infrastructure using a systems-based computational platform.
sth55 (at) drexel (dot) edu
Teresa Wu, Ph.D.
Teresa Wu is a professor in Industrial Engineering Program at School of Computing, Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering of Arizona State University. She received her doctorate from the University of Iowa. She is National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award winner (2003) and ASU tenure and promotion exemplar (2006). Her main areas of interests are in Distributed Decision Support, Distributed Information System. Recently, she has been actively involved with health informatics with collaborators from Mayo Clinic, Banner Alzheimer Institute, Duke CIVM Center, University of Nebraska Lincoln Medical Center. In 2011, she was appointed an associate professor of radiology informatics at Mayo Clinic. She has published papers in NeuroImage, Information Sciences Journal, IEEE Transactions on Automation, Science and Engineer, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management , the Journal of Operations Management, ASME Transactions: Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering.
Teresa(dot)Wu (at) asu (dot) edu
Giulia Pedrielli, Ph.D.
Giulia Pedrielli is currently an assistant professor for the School of Computing Informatics System Design Systems Engineering in Arizona State University. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at National University of Singapore and Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano. She was also a research fellow for the Institute of Industrial Technologies and Automation within the National Research Council, Italy, (ITIA-CNR). She was a visiting PhD student at University of California Berkeley (USA), Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR) during the period August 2011–June 2012 collaborating with Professor Lee W. Schruben. She develops her research activity in the area of stochastics and simulation with a particular interest in simulation-based optimization. She has dealt with applications in several domains: manufacturing including automotive and de-manufacturing, power systems, supply chains, automation and warehousing, and health care. She is increasingly involved in real-time control under uncertainty in the domain of cyber-physical systems including robotics.
Giulia(dot)Pedrielli (at) asu (dot) edu
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