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SBS Lab Member Michael Maloney Receives Scholarship

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SBS lab member and new Ph.D. student Michael Maloney received the prestigious University Graduate Fellowship in the Pennsylvania State College of Engineering. This was given in recognition of his strong academic record and served to enable him to establish his research and other activities. This is a great start to Michael’s time with the lab. He has a M.S. from Columbia University in civil engineering. He then worked in industry for 8 yeasrs gaining expertise in construction management and life cycle carbon analysis. His Ph.D. work will be in Architectural Engineering with research focusing on addressing sustainability challenges in the growing building sector of data centers.

SBS Lab Member Hongjun Li Receives Prestigious Scholarship

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SBS lab member and new Ph.D. student Hongjun Li received the prestigious University Graduate Fellowship in the Pennsylvania State College of Engineering. This was given in recognition of his strong academic record and served to enable him to establish his research and other activities. This is a great start to Hongjun’s time with the lab. He has a Master degree in Architecture from Tsinghua University with a research focus on distributed urban energy systems. His Ph.D. work will be in Architectural Engineering with research on Modelica-based modeling for the design and control of advanced building energy systems.

SBS Lab Member Yizhi Yang Receives Borda Graduate Scholarship in Honor of Gifford H. Albright

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SBS Lab Member and Ph.D. candidate Yizhi Yang won the Borda Graduate Scholarship in Honor of Gifford H. Albright – Scholarly Excellence in Architectural Engineering. The award notice says “the Architectural Engineering Department recognizes your exceptional ability and promise for significant future achievement in architectural engineering research. Your hard work and dedication is an inspiration to other Graduate Students.” We are so excited to see our lab members winning awards that recognize their hard work and effort in the world of architectural engineering and building energy modeling.

Yizhi’s Ph.D. research attempts to unravel the nexus of energy consumption, carbon emission, and energy equity in buildings. Her research is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Yizhi has also published several journal and conference papers. To learn more about Yizhi and her research, visit here.

SBS Lab Member Rosina Adhikari Receives Scholarship from IBPSA-USA to Attend SimBuild 2024 Conference

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Congratulations to Rosina Adhikari for receiving the generous scholarship from IBPSA-USA which supports her in traveling to the SimBuild 2024 conference. Rosina is performing her Ph.D. research in building energy modeling and applications. This year we are sedining 6 students to the SimBuild conference this year and are excited to see how much they learn from experts at this conference.

SBS Lab Member Saranya Anbarasu Receives Marlene & Joseph Borda Architectural Engineering Graduates Travel Fellowship.

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Congratulations to SBS lab member Saranya Anbarasu on receiving the Marlene & Joseph Borda Architectural Engineering Graduates Travel Fellowship. This fellowship is supporting her to present her paper “Optimizing Operational Costs in Combined Heat and Power Integrated District Heating Systems: A Reinforcement Learning Approach” at IBPSA-USA SimBuild 2024 Conference in Denver, Colorado. We appreciate all the generous donors for supporting the lab members to have these experiences.

Saranya’s paper is joint research of Tanmay Ambadkar, Rosina Adhikari, Kathryn Hinkleman, Zhanwei He, and Ardeshir Moftakhari from our DOE project.

SBS Lab Member Viswanathan Ganesh Receives Prestigious Scholarships

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SBS lab member and new Ph.D. student Viswanathan Ganesh received two prestigious scholarships. He received the College of Engineering scholarship and Marlene and Joseph Borda scholarship. This is a great start to Viswanathan’s time with the lab. With a M.S. in Sustainable Electric Power Engineering and Electromobility at Chalmers University of Technology. Viswanathan is bringing his expertise in electrical engineering to study building to grid integration. Congratulations to Viswanathan on this amazing accomplishment.

SBS Lab Member Jiyuan Sui Receives Prestigious Scholarships

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SBS lab member and new Ph.D. student Jiyuan Sui received three prestigious scholarships. He received the University Graduate Fellowship, College of Engineering Scholarship, and the Marlene and Joseph Borda Scholarship. This is a great start to Jiyuan’s time with the lab. With a M.S. in Building Performance and Diagnostics at Carnegie Mellon University, Jiyuan’s research will be focused on large scale building energy modeling and carbon emission reduction. Congratulations to Jiyuan on this amazing accomplishment.

Katy Hinkelman Receives 2022-23 Boyer Graduate Scholarship

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Congratulations to SBS Lab PhD candidate Katy Hinkelman, who recently received the Lester L. Boyer Graduate Research Scholarship for the 2022-23 academic year. Katy is a senior PhD student in the lab who has made invaluable contributions to the lab’s research on district energy systems and sustainable communities. Katy’s current research focuses on incorporating patterns and processes found in nature, a technique called biomimicry, into energy distribution networks. Biomimicry has been adopted in many engineering fields and Katy is helping to pioneer its use in the building and energy sectors. Katy, like Dr. Boyer, also started her own family during graduate school.

We thank the late Dr. Boyer and the Penn State Architectural Engineering program for their generous support. We are very grateful.