Research projects supervised by Dr. Rebecca Napolitano, director of the Built Environment Analytics and Modeling (BEAM) Lab at PennState University, University Park.

Our research is in hybrid analytics which lies at the intersection of civil engineering, computer science, and historic preservation. Hybrid analytics, a nascent field, is the combination of physics-based modeling and data-driven modeling for the end goal of making real-time predictions and monitoring in the context of Digital Twin a reality. This new field leverages the decipherability and clear-box nature of physics-based modeling, with accuracy and pattern recognition techniques of data-driven machine learning algorithms. More specifically, our research focuses on the following aspects for preservation and adaptive reuse of existing and historic structures as a sustainable infrastructure solution.