Buildings. Climate. Uncertainty.

I have had the good fortune to work with brilliant people in academia as well as industry. I did my Bachelors and Masters degrees at Purdue University, obtaining experience in research labs, construction sites (New Delhi Airport), and industrial R&D (developing daylighting and lighting controls at Lutron Electronics, Inc.). I then worked at the Laboratory of Integrated Performance in Design while doing a PhD at the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. My thesis examined the potential of using stochastic weather generators to conduct uncertainty analyses of the performance of building designs and renovations over the long term. I also developed prototype emulators or metamodels for physics-based simulation during this time, which eventually led, after further work and collaboration at arbnco, to a patent. After this, I spent time as a visiting postdoctoral scholar at the Energy Systems Research Unit | University of Strathclyde and RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project | Tokyo.