Max Zhang, Irving Porter Church Professor of Engineering
Dr. Zhang joined the Cornell MAE faculty in 2006. He received his PhD degree at the University of California at Davis. While at graduate school, he was a visiting scientist at the USEPA National Exposure Research Laboratory twice, in 2000 and again in 2002. At Cornell, Dr. Zhang initiated several multi-disciplinary research projects on energy and environmental systems, impacted-driven Internet of Things (IoT). He is currently serving as the Kathy Dwyer Marble and Curt Marble Faculty Director at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability.
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Alfredo Rodriguez, PhD Candidate
Alfredo joined EERL in 2018 after receiving his B.S. degree from The City College of New York. His current project is to design a New York statewide Internet of Things (IoT) network for energy and environmental sensing. He has been engaging communities in 30 New York counties on the IoT project.
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Bo Yuan, PhD Candidate
Bo joined EERL in 2019 after receiving his B.S. degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University. His current project is to create an integrated energy and atmospheric modeling system for New York State’s ambitious climate initiatives.
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Ali Amadeh, PhD Candidate
Ali joined EERL in 2019 after receiving his M.S. degree from Sharif University of Technology. His current project is to develop effective strategies to integrate electrified space heating and water heating systems with renewable energy.
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Henry Williams, PhD Candidate
Henry joined EERL in 2019 after receiving his B.S. degree from the University of Tulsa, He is currently working on agrivoltaics designs for sustainable solar development.
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Jintao Gu, PhD Candidate
Jintao joined EERL in 2019 initially as an M.S. student in Materials Science and Engineering and is working on computer vision-based identification of localized emission sources, data-driven air quality modeling, and predicting the performance of electric buses in cold climates.
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Richard Mahuze, PhD Candidate
Richard joined EERL in 2019 initially as an M.S. student in Systems Engineering and is working on energy management for building and community energy systems.
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Qirui Long, PhD Candidate
Qirui joined EERL in 2023 after receiving his B.S. degree from the University of California, Davis, and his M.S. degree from Stanford University. He is working on ecosystem services and agricultural modeling for sustainable solar development.
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Mike Liao, PhD Candidate
Mike joined EERL in 2023 after receiving his B.S. degree from Cornell MAE. He is working on designing innovative solar racking systems for sustainable solar development.
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Yipu Wang, M.S. student
Yipu joined EERL in 2022 after receiving his B.S. degree from Wuhan University. He is working on microclimate monitoring at solar sites and radiation modeling for sustainable solar development.
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Yi Yan, M.S. student
Yipu joined EERL in 2022 after receiving his B.S. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He is working on computer vision-based emissions and air quality modeling.
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Juanhe Shen, M.S. student
Juanhe joined EERL in 2022 after receiving his B.S. degree from Southern Methodist University. He is developing digital twin-based design tools for sustainable solar development.
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Hongpufan Huang, M.S. student
Hongpufan joined EERL in 2023 after receiving his B.S. degree from the University of California, Riverside. He is working on IoT-based environmental monitoring and computer vision-based identification of localized emission sources.
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Alex Coy, PhD Candidate
Alex joined EERL in 2019 as an ECE undergraduate researcher and served as the hardware lead for IoT-based energy and environmental sensing. He is currently working on his PhD research at ECE and is mentoring the Engaged IoT student project team.
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