People

Leadership

anu.ramaswami@princeton.edu

Sustainable urban infrastructure systems; technology innovation for smart, healthy, net-zero carbon cities; equity, wellbeing, and livability

Alain Kornhauser

Dynamic resource management; traveler information and decision support; automated vehicle control systems; traveler information systems; personal rapid transit

Areas of research interests include urban history, environmental history, and economic history.

Research focused on designing secure systems to empower developers and their applications through building practical and secure operating systems, embedded systems, and distributed systems.

Forrest Meggers

Building systems design and integration; sustainable systems; renewable energy; optimization and modeling of energy systems; geothermal; seasonal energy storage; hybrid solar; building materials; exergy analysis; thermodynamics and heat transfer

Climate dynamics, regional impacts of climate change and variability, ocean-atmosphere interaction, climate and weather extremes

Luc Deike

Fundamental fluid dynamics, Addressing fundamental physics problems related to environmental and industrial applications

Niraj Jha

Smart healthcare; Neural network synthesis; Energy-efficient inference; IoT security; Monolithic 3D IC design

Computer vision, machine learning, AI fairness and transparency

Stephen Redding

International trade, economic geography, urban economics and transportation

Affiliated Faculty and Researchers

Urban history, urban planning/planning history, gentrification, arts and urban development

Alexander Smits

Fluid mechanics; Reynolds number turbulent wall-bounded flows; bio-inspired propulsion; blood hemolysis and sports ball aerodynamics; wind turbine aerodynamics, energy harvesting, and measurement techniques

Branko Glišić

Structural health monitoring and structural analysis, fiber optic sensors and advanced sensory systems, smart structures and intelligent infrastructure, model-based & data-driven predictive modelling, updatable digital twins

Optimization methods for design and operation of energy systems, including central HVAC systems for commerical buildings

Claire White

Sustainable cements; Durability; Valorization of industrial waste materials; Materials for carbon dioxide capture; Carbon dioxide storage as building materials

International trade, economic geography, urban economics

Elie Bou-Zeid

Environmental flows and turbulence, energy models for cities and buildings, boundary-layer meteorology, surface-atmosphere interactions; hydro-meteorology; large-eddy simulation; sensor networks

Felix Heide

Computational Imaging, Computer Vision, Optics, Autonomous Vehicle Systems, and Machine Learning

Gerard Wysocki

Laser spectroscopy; broadly tunable laser systems; external cavity quantum cascade lasers; spectroscopic systems for remote and/or in-situ chemical sensing and spectroscopic trace-gas sensor networks

Howard Stone

Fluid mechanics, transport phenomena, complex fluids; airflows related to pathogen and virus transport; most projects are studied with a combination of experiments, simulations, and mathematical modeling

Robotics, safe learning and control, human-centered systems, autonomous vehicles

James Smith

Flood Hydrology and Hydrometeorology, Radar Hydrometeorology, Urban Hydrology, Climatology of Extreme Rainfall

Kyle Jamieson

Networking, Wireless Systems, Internet of Things. Building wirelessly networked systems for the real world

Labor economics, Urban economics, Economic history (especially immigration and segregation)

Materials and processing for emerging thin-film electronics to improve building energy efficiency and for power generation; smart windows; thermal management

Marcus Hultmark

Fluid mechanics (with a focus on turbulent flows), aerodynamics of wind turbines and other large structures, developing and characterization of sensors for measurements of flow parameters

Maria Garlock

Structural engineering; earthquake engineering; large fires; thin shell concrete structures; floodbarriers; floating structures

Urban Architecture, Water Urban Infrastructure, Food deserts, Sustainable development

Michael Freedman

Peer-assisted content distribution; federated virtual worlds; service-centric network architectures; scalable storage systems; fault-tolerant systems; distributed monitoring and debugging; privacy-preserving protocols

Climate change: impacts and adaptations, sea level rise and ice sheets, human migration, decisions under uncertainty

Minjie Chen

Design of power conversion and management systems, high-performance power electronics for a wide range of applications ranging from renewable integration, electric vehicles, to data centers and telecom infrastructure

Naveen Verma

Analog and digital integrated circuits with an emphasis on developing system platforms for emerging applications

Ning Lin

Hurricane hazards (wind, surge, rainfall) and risk analysis, climate change impact and adaptation, wind engineering, coastal engineering

Public Finance, Taxation, Inequality, State and Local Fiscal Policy

International Trade, Economic Geography, Urban Economics

Water pollution, water treatment, wastewater treatment, effect of green infrastructure on water quality, emerging pollutants

Security and privacy of communications, Security and privacy of machine learning

Urban hydrology, Urban Groundwater, Low Impact Design, Sustainable Urban Planning

Reza Moini

Bio-inspired and Architected Designs; Automated and Additive Manufacturing; Robotics; Advanced Urban and Energy Materials and Structure

Secure computers, smartphone and cloud security, deep-learning based security, anomaly detection, power-grid security, side-channels, overall security architecture

Sigrid Adriaenssens

Structural design and mechanics, large span lightweight systems, form finding, optimization, robotic construction

Urban Economic Development; Automation and applications of AI in urban goverment; Leadership and management in the public sector

William Gleason

Environmental humanities; architecture and the built environment

Yiguang Ju

Sustainable energy; propulsion; functional nano-materials

Water energy nexus, resource recovery, circular economy, water and wastewater treatment and decarbonization