Honors + Awards

Academic Awards: Research & Scholarship, Teaching

2021-Present, Director of Graduate Programs and Research, M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management, University of Florida
2019-2022, Holland Professor, University of Florida, $10,000 per year stipend
2019-2022, University Term Professor, University of Florida, $5,000 per year stipend
2017-2019, University Term Professor, University of Florida, $5,000 per year stipend
2017, Mentor / Teacher of the Year Award, University of Florida, $2,000 stipend
2016, Excellence Award for Assistant Professors Award, University of Florida, $5,000 stipend
2014, Nancy Perry Teaching Excellence Award, Rinker School, University of Florida, $5,000 stipend

Board Memberships

2019-2022, Secretary, Executive Board of Directors, National Fenestration Rating Council (NFRC)
2021, Chair, ASHRAE TC 4.5 Fenestration subcommittee, ASHRAE
2015-2016, Member, Board of Directors, NFRC
2015-2016, Member, Audit Committee, NFRC
2017-present, Member, American National Standards (ANS) Committee, NFRC
2012-2014, Member, ANS Committee, NFRC
2010, Member, Certification Board, Building Energy Simulation Analyst (BESA)
2006, Member, Board of Directors, Delaware Valley Green Building Council

Academic Journal Memberships

2016-present, Member, Editorial Board, Buildings MDPI (Editor-In-Chief: Dr. Arditi)
2016-present, Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Power & Energy Engg. (Editor-In-Chief: Dr. Stefanakos)
2019-present, Guest Editor, Sustainability: “Building Energy Prediction & Sustainable Design”

International: Keynote & Plenary Speaker

2020, Invited Plenary Speaker, The 20th International Conference on Sustainable Environment & Architecture, Urban Retrofitting: Building, Cities and Communities in the Disruptive Era, University of Pendidikan, Bandung, Indonesia, Nov 10, 2020.
2018, Invited Keynote Speaker, Workshop on Improving Building Energy Efficiency, The Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee and Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), India, Dec 20-21, 2018.
2018, Invited Keynote Speaker, International Conference on SMART CITY Innovation, Bandung, Indonesia, Oct 25-26, 2018.

International: Invited Speaker

2018, Invited Speaker, Department of Architecture, University of Pendidikan, Bandung, Indonesia, Nov 26, 2018.
2018, Invited Mentor & Speaker, Academic Writing Short Course and Research Design, SMART CITY – University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, Nov 19-24, 2018.
2016, Invited Speaker, Cool Surfaces Impact on Energy Savings of South African Notional Buildings, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. June 2016.
2016, Invited Speaker, Dynamic- Sustainability Information Modeling (D-SIM) Workbench, School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. May 23-27, 2016.
2015, Invited Speaker, Powering South Africa with Cleaner & Smarter Energy Conference, Pretoria, South Africa.
2013, Invited Speaker and Member of Scientific Organizing Committee, Advances in Building Simulation Conference, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Madras), Chennai, India.
2012, Invited Speaker, Session Chair (Energy Simulations), and Member of International Organizing

International: Honors & Awards

2020, Best Paper Award, “Preliminary Research in UAV-based Estimation of Lowest Floor Elevation for Flood Hazard Pre-Disaster Management,” The 20th International Conference on Sustainable Environment & Architecture, Urban Retrofitting: Building, Cities and Communities in the Disruptive Era, University of Pendidikan, Bandung, Indonesia, Nov 10, 2020.
2020, Invited Session Chair – Cities and COVID-19, BuildSys’20, November 19-20, Yokohama, Japan. 2020.
2020, Invited Technical Program Committee, The 7th ACM BuildSys Conference, Yokohama, Japan, Nov 16-19, 2020.
2015, Invited Program Committee Member, Empirical Modeling Conference, Brussels, Belgium.
2014, No. 1 Reviewer and Certificate of Excellence, Building and Environmental Journal, Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam.
2013, Best Paper – Runner up, International Society of Management Science and Engineering Management Conference, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
2011, Invited Session Chair (Limitations of Simulations in Practice, III & IV), Building Simulation Conference, Sydney, Australia.
2006, Young CAADRIA Award, Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia Conference, New Delhi, India.

International: Founder & Organizer

2019, Founder and Organizer, The First International Workshop on Building Energy Sensing, Controls, Big Data Analysis, and Visualization (UrbSys), ACM BuildSys, Nov 10, 2019, New York, NY.

National: Invited Speaker

2016, Invited Speaker, 47th Winter Simulation Conference, Washington, DC.
2016, Invited Presenter, Global Health + Megacities, UF Innovations in Global Health Workshop Series, Theme: Information + Technology as Agents of Change.
2015-2019, Invited Graduate Seminar Presenter, Department of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (presented since 2011 every year)
2015, Invited Presenter & Poster, NIST Global City Challenge Festival, Washington, DC
2015, Invited Presenter and Track Coordinator (Project Management and Construction), 46th Winter Simulation Conference, Huntington Beach, CA
2014, Invited Presenter and Track Coordinator (Project Management and Construction) and Session Chair (Energy, Water & Crowd Simulations), 45th Winter Simulation Conference, Savannah, GA
2011, Invited Presenter & Session Chair (Construction Project Process Modeling & Simulation), 42nd Winter Simulation Conference, Phoenix, AZ.
2011, Invited Presenter, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, US Environmental Protection Agency, Narragansett, RI. Title: “Re(de)fining Net Zero Energy: Renewable Emergy Balance of Environmental Building Design.”
2010, Invited Panelist. State of MA Building Stretch Code Appendix 120 AA Adoption for Town of Brookline
2010, Invited Presenter, Net Zero Energy Design – Engineering, at ASHRAE Boston Product Show.
2010, Invited Presenter, Net Zero Energy Building Design, at AIA MetroWest, Needham, MA.
2010, Invited Presenter, Introduction to NZE Buildings, at Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA.
2010, Invited Presenter, Q&A session – NESEA Net Zero Energy Competition, Boston, MA.
2009, Invited Presenter, Net Zero Energy Building Studies, to the Leading By Example Program Team, Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, State of Massachusetts, Boston, MA.
2009, Invited Panelist, State of MA Building Stretch Code Appendix 120 AA for City of Cambridge, MA.
2009, Invited Presenter, LEED and its Impact on Civil Engineering, at American Society of Civil Engineers, Palm Coast, FL.

National: Honors & Awards

2016, Finalist, Energy Project of the Year Award | Project title, “Energy Modeling Project for the Development of Energy Performance Levels in Buildings in the Republic of South Africa,” South African Association of Energy Efficiency, 8 & 9 November, 2016, Gauteng, South Africa.
2015 & 2016 NSF Panel Reviewer, National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems, Cyber-Physical Systems in Smart Cities.
2015, NSF Early-Career Investigators Stipend & Position Paper Presenter, National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems, Cyber-Physical Systems in Smart Cities Workshop, Seattle, WA
2014, #1 Reviewer + Certificate of Excellence, Buildings and Environment, Elsevier.
2014, Invited External Reviewer for Graduate Theses, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Boston
2014, Co-Organizer and Session Chair, iiSBE Net Zero Built Environment Symposium and 17th Rinker International Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2013, Best Paper, runner-up | Kibert, C.J., Srinivasan, R.S. Net Zero: Rational Performance Targets for High Performance Buildings, International Society of Management Science and Engineering Management Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
2011, Invited Subject Matter Expert, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Commercial Workforce Development, Boulder, CO
2011, Sustainability Fellow, Prairie Creek Project, University of Florida, FL
2010, Innovation in Green Design Award, Development of Net Zero Energy Training Series, US Green Building Council, Massachusetts Chapter, Boston, MA
2007, Chartered Legend in Energy Award, Association of Energy Engineers, Atlanta, GA
2007, Top 24 Emerging Environmental Leader, Environmental Leadership Program, Philadelphia, PA
2006, Young CAADRIA Award, Srinivasan, R.S., Malkawi, A.M. Reinforcement Learning and Real-time Thermal Performance Visualization in Buildings, CAADRIA Conference.