Team Members
Current Lab Members
Ariane Middel
School of Arts, Media and Engineering, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts (AME) | School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering (CIDSE), Arizona State University
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.
Ali Alyakoob
PhD Student in Sustainable Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University
Ananth Udupa
Bachelor’s Student in Architecture, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University
Ananth studies architecture in the Herberger School of Design and Arts with particular interest in the integration of multicultural architecture styles and green infrastructure in urban climates. Outside of academics, he is a classically trained Bharatanatyam dancer and participates in many cultural events and competitions.
Deepti Paul
PhD Student in Sustainable Energy, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
Deepti is a graduate Computer Software Engineering student at Arizona State University. Her interest lies in app development, data visualization, climate informatics, applying data science in advanced sustainability research and integrating computer science in solving major urban heat problems.
Erin Epel
Bachelor's Student, Barrett Honors College, Arizona State University
Erin is a second-year student at ASU Barrett studying Sustainability and Spanish. She is interested in studying sustainable agricultural practices as well as the impact of green infrastructure in urban areas. In her free time, she loves to hike, rock climb, and paint.
Florian Schneider
PhD Student, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
Florian Schneider is interested in climate change related research with a MS focus on Arctic climate change and a PhD focus on heat mitigation strategies. He is also passionate about science communication to better communicate scientific results to non-scientific audience.
Garrett Storey
Bachelor's Student, Barrett Honors College, Arizona State University
Garrett is a third-year student earning a Chemistry B.S. and Sustainability minor at ASU. He is interested in urban climate research, air & water pollution, and sustainable city systems. He's extremely passionate about the health and safety of Arizona's citizens and ecology. Outside of school, he is a published poet and coffee shop fanatic.
Gisel Guzmán
PhD Student, School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning, Arizona State University
Gisel Guzmán is a first-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.
Isaac Buo
Ph.D. Student, Department of Geography, University of Tartu, Estonia
Isaac is interested in studying the spatial variability and impacts of extreme climate events in urban areas with remote sensing technologies.
Kayshavi Bakshi
Bachelor's student in Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Matter, Transport & Energy & Barrett the Honors College
Kay is a student at ASU Barrett studying Mechanical Engineering and a minor Spanish. She is interested in studying heat mitigation techniques and urban climate research. In her free time, she loves to cook, paint, and play guitar.
Maddie Potts
Bachelor's Student, Barrett Honors College, Arizona State University
MaRTy Cart
Biometeorological Instrument Platform, SHaDE Lab
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.
Matthew Huff
Master’s Student in Computer Science, School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University
Matthew Huff is a Computer Science student at Arizona State University with an interest in climate modeling, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence.
Zachary Van Tol
PhD Student, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
Zach is a first-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.
(Past) Visiting Scholars
Mansoureh Gholami
PhD Student, University of Bologna, Italy
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.
Shreya Banerjee
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Architecture & Regional Planning, IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
Shreya is an urban planner-architect and a Doctoral Research Scholar in Urban Planning and Engineering at 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.
Alumni
Abdullah Ali A Aldakheelallah
Master’s Student in Architecture, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University
Nicole Burkard
Master’s Student in Computer Science, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Peter J. Crank
PhD Student, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University
Brian Grant
PhD Student, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
Eric Kinner
Bachelor’s Student in Computer Science, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Karthik Kashinath Kulkarni
Master's Student, Computer Engineering, Arizona State University
Jonas Lukasczyk
PhD Student, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Julia Marturano
Bachelor's Student, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University
Garrett Miller
Bachelor’s Student in Digital Culture, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
Brian Rojas
PhD Student, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University
Lei Zhang
Master’s Student in Software Engineering, Arizona State University
Yujia Zhang
Post-Doctoral Researcher, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University
Bing-Bing Zhou
PhD Student, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
