
Dima Abu-Aridah
Research Focus: Refugee camps and socio-spatial dimensions
Research Clusters: Culture, Society, Space and Design Computing
Academic Adviser: Rebecca Henn
dfa5278@psu.edu

Mahsa Adib
Landscape Architecture Focus
Research Focus: Community engagement for green stormwater infrastructure development
Research Cluster: Sustainability
Academic Adviser: Hong Wu
mva5844@psu.edu

Sana Ahrar
Research Focus: Mixed-income informal settlements in the global south
Research Cluster: Culture, Society, Space
Academic Adviser: Alexandra Staub
sxa5735@psu.edu

Maryam Aman
Research Focus: Energy-efficient building design
Research Cluster: Sustainability
Research Affiliation: Stuckeman Center for Design Computing
Academic Advisers: Ute Poerschke and José Pinto Duarte
mka5911@psu.edu

Elizabeth Andrzejewski
Research Focus: Konrad Wachsmann, prefabrication, building technology, automation, robotics
Research Cluster: Material Matters
Academic Adviser: Marcus Shaffer
ema5162@psu.edu
Ali Baghi
Research Focus: Digital fabrication, concrete printing
Research Cluster: Design Computing
Academic Adviser: José Duarte
axb6183@psu.edu

Abhinandan Bera
Landscape Architecture Focus
Research Focus: Colonial urban history, urban morphology, socio-economic development, neoliberalism, globalization, urban planning
Research Cluster: Culture, Society, Space
Academic Adviser: Andy Cole
aub279@psu.edu

Özgüç Bertuğ Çapunaman
Research Focus: Interactive and adaptive fabrication, computational making, tool development
Research Cluster: Design Computing
Academic Adviser: Benay Gürsoy
Personal website | ozgucbertug@psu.edu
Yuxiang Dong
Research Focus: Landscape Architecture
Research Cluster: Hong Wu
yqd5528@psu.edu

Paniz Farrokhsiar
Research Focus: Computational design, the role of making in the design process
Research Cluster: Design Computing
Research Affiliation: Stuckeman Center for Design Computing
Academic Adviser: Benay Gürsoy
Personal website | puf69@psu.edu

Lara Garcia
Research Focus: The role of human spatial and thermal perception in extreme heat events and urban heat island effect adaptation
Research Cluster: Sustainability
Research Affiliation: Stuckeman Center for Design Computing
Academic Advisers: Travis Flohr and Stephen Mainzer
lag812@psu.edu

Amir Ghasemi
Research Focus: Digital fabrication
Research Cluster: Design Computing
Academic Adviser: José Duarte
akf5785@psu.edu
Elnaz Ghasemi
Research Focus: Urban energy use, carbon emissions
Research Cluster: Sustainability
Academic Adviser: Rahman Azari
exg5335@psu.edu

Keerthana Govindarazan
Research Focus: Virtual reality, spatial cognition and perception, performance art
Research Cluster: Design Computing
Research Affiliation: Stuckeman Center for Design Computing
Academic Advisers: Yasmine Abbas and José Pinto Duarte
kmg6763@psu.edu

Ankita Karmakar
Landscape Architecture Focus
Research Focus: Globalization and neo-liberalization, women and culture, global feminism, right to the city, everyday city, peri-urban cultural-resilience across global south, gender equity, current practice of design, planning and policy framework
Research Cluster: Culture, Society, Space
Academic Adviser: Mallika Bose
amk7900@psu.edu
Tiffanie Leung
Research Focus: Earthbag construction
Research Cluster: Material Matters
Academic Adviser: Marcus Shaffer
til5226@psu.edu

Jie Li
Research Focus: How to close the performance gap in sustainable buildings
Research Cluster: Sustainability
Academic Adviser: Lisa Iulo
jxl6569@psu.edu

Eric Mainzer
Research Focus: Virtual reality, design education, spatial cognition
Research Cluster: Design Computing
Research Affiliation: Stuckeman Center for Design Computing
Academic Adviser: José Pinto Duarte
emm130@psu.edu

Zia Mohajerzadeh
Research Focus: Dynamic façade configurations for reduced energy consumption and improved thermal comfort and indoor air quality
Research Cluster: Sustainability
Academic Adviser: Rahman Azari
zjm5337@psu.edu

Alale Mohseni
Research Cluster: Design Computing
Research Affiliation: Stuckeman Center for Design Computing
abm6706@psu.edu

Mahan Motalebi
Research Focus: Material aging
Research Cluster: Material Matters
Academic Adviser: Marcus Shaffer
mqm6717@psu.edu

Michael Nowak
Research Focus: Security in architectural space
Research Cluster: Culture, Society, Space
Academic Adviser: Ute Poerschke
Personal website | msn141@psu.edu

Hanin Othman
Research Focus: Monitoring indoor environment quality and controlling building façade operations using assistive robots
Research Cluster: Sustainability
Academic Adviser: Rahman Azari
hao5085@psu.edu

Houman Riazi Jorshari
Research Focus: Moving images, media studies, and architectural theory
Research Cluster: Culture, Society, Space
Academic Adviser: Pep Avilés
hqr5205@psu.edu

Krista Schneider
Research Focus: Land grant university and place-based economic development
Research Cluster: Culture, Society, Space
Academic Adviser: Mallika Bose
kls126@psu.edu

Nusrat Tabassum
Research Focus: Additive manufacturing with concrete in extreme climatic conditions
Research Cluster: Material Matters
Research Affiliation: Stuckeman Center for Design Computing
Academic Adviser: José Pinto Duarte
nqt5207@psu.edu

Tasneem Tariq
Research Focus: Thermal environment, urban heat island, green infrastructures, thermal comfort, sustainable cities
Research Cluster: Sustainability
Academic Advisers: Ute Poerschke and Lisa Domenica Iulo
tbt5252@psu.edu

Nicolás Verdejo
Research Focus: Architecture education, 20th Century authoritarianisms, politics
Research Cluster: Culture, Society, Space
Academic Adviser: Denise Costanzo
nzv5124@psu.edu

Nan Yang
Landscape Architecture Focus
Research Focus: Social-spatial dimension of the garment industry in China
Research Cluster: Culture, Society, Space
Academic Adviser: Mallika Bose
nzy8@psu.edu

Jingshi Zhang
Research Focus: Artificial leaf-based cladding system performance evaluation
Research Cluster: Sustainability
Academic Adviser: Rahman Azari
jfz5431@psu.edu
Yuhan Zhou
Research Focus: Landscape Architecture
Academic Adviser: Hong Wu
yxz6026@psu.edu