Meet the Team

Ariane Middel

School of Arts, Media and Engineering (AME) | School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence (SCAI), Arizona State University

Ariane.Middel@asu.edu

Ariane Middel’s research interests lie in the interdisciplinary field of urban climate with focus on climate-sensitive urban form, design, landscapes, and infrastructure in the face of extreme heat and climatic uncertainty.

MaRTy Cart

Biometeorological Instrument Platform, SHaDE Lab

Marty@sensableheatscapes.com

MaRTy is interested in exploring how the thermal environment is experienced by pedestrians. MaRTy is a tree hugger, shade hunter, heat walker, and thermal comfort expert.

Muhammad Abdullah

PhD Student, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University

Meet Muhammad Abdullah, his passion for investigating the intricate dynamics between urban development, climate, and human well-being culminated in his decision to pursue a PhD in Sustainability at the prestigious Arizona State University. Abdullah’s doctoral research will center on the critical intersection of extreme heat and thermal comfort.

Ali Alyakoob

PhD Student in Sustainable Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University

Ali’s interests are in modeling energy use in buildings and exploring efficiency improvement strategies using physics-based models and machine learning techniques. His PhD research focuses on the impacts of microclimates on building energy use.

Protik Bose Pranto

Ph.D. Student, Computer Science, Arizona State University

Protik is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Arizona State University. His research interest is in Remote Sensing with ML and DL, Computer Vision, and NLP. He finds great joy in exploring various Machine Learning related topics and writes blogs on the same. Besides research, Protik is interested in sports, traveling, and music.

Evan Crabtree

Master’s Student, Computer Science, SCAI, Arizona State University

Evan is passionate about augmenting the world with data and empowering people to make safer and cooler decisions. With a deep commitment to harnessing the power of cutting-edge technology, Evan constantly seeks out innovative solutions that push the boundaries of what’s possible and drive positive change.

Fletcher Emmott

Bachelor’s Student, Computer Science, SCAI & Barrett Honors College, Arizona State University

Fletcher is a Computer Science student with a passion for finding long-term equitable solutions to the immediate global challenges we face today. His goal is to build a sustainable future for our planet by addressing climate change through the application of innovative technology.

Shrey Garg

Bachelor’s Student in Computer Science and Sustainability, School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University

Shrey is passionate about climate technology and wants to work in the field to see how we can use technology to reverse climate change. He is interested in developing new technologies to study the changing climate and work on solutions to solve the same.

Gisel Guzmán

PhD Student, School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning, Arizona State University

Gisel Guzmán is a second-year geography Ph.D. student at the School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning at Arizona State University. She is willing to the idea of conceiving cities for people’s well-being, so always likes to involve people-space relationships in her work. Her research interest is focused on biometeorology (personal thermal exposure), urban climate, extreme-weather events meteorology, remote sensing, and GIS.

Devbrat Hariyani

Bachelor’s Student, Computer Science, SCAI, Arizona State University

Devbrat is passionate about using algorithms to create sustainable systems. His current research focuses on using machine learning algorithms to predict droughts. He is interested in combating climate change by working on innovative technologies and solutions.

Waqar Hassan Khan

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science, SCAI, Arizona State University

Waqar is a second-year Ph.D. student at ASU. He is interested in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, NLP, and Human-Computer Interaction. He loves writing code and participating in programming contests.

Peter Price

PhD Student, The Design School, Arizona State University

Peter has a background in horticulture and landscape architecture and is currently a Ph.D. student in Design, Environment and the Arts at ASU. His current research focuses on biodiversity learning landscapes, such as zoos and botanical gardens and how microclimatic conditions affect the thermal comfort and safety of their users.

Pouya Shaeri

PhD Student, Computer Science, SCAI, Arizona State University

Pouya is passionate about computer science, math, and modelling. He currently works on climate and urban programming. He also has experience in Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence.

Zachary Van Tol

PhD Student, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University

Zach is a third-year doctoral student with an interest in reducing urban climate inequities. Passionate about reading and writing, he aspires to improve decision-making by advocating for more informed, science-driven public policy.

Ryan Woo

Bachelor’s Student, Computer Science & Mathematics Minor, SCAI, Arizona State University

Ryan Woo is an undergraduate researcher whose interests include computer graphics and visualization, digital audio signal processing, theoretical computer science, and computing education. He has also done work in computer science fundamentals instructional content design and curriculum development.

Saud AlKhaled

Assistant Professor at the College of Architecture, Kuwait University

Dr. AlKhaled’s research explores false interpretations of urban standards on the performance of the built environment and the nexus of design to address climate challenges, particularly in hot desert cities.

Hai Yan

Assistant Professor, College of Landscape Architecture, Zhejiang A&F University

Dr. Yan’s main professional interest is the influence of urban landscape characteristics on outdoor thermal environments and thermal comfort, especially the regulatory effect and mechanism of urban blue and green space.

Shuang Liu

Ph.D. student, School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, China

Shuang is a Ph.D. student with an interest in studying outdoor human thermal comfort as well as the thermal effect of urban green & blue infrastructure.

Shreya Banerjee

Post-Doctoral Scholar, Singapore Management University

Shreya received her PhD in Urban Planning and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, India. Her research interest includes the application of statistical learning and computational techniques to solve real-world challenges in the domain of Sustainable Housing and Community Planning and International Development with a special emphasis on human bio-meteorology and climatology, urban informality, energy use and healthy community, real estate and urban economics.