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Burcin Becerik-Gerber is a Turkish American engineering educator and Stephen Schrank Chair Professor in the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California. She is known for her work in human-building interaction, a new field she pioneered, which researches the design and use of technology that focuses on the interfaces between buildings and their users. She is the founding director of the Innovation in Integrated Informatics LAB and the director of USC’s Center for Intelligent Environments. Her research falls at the intersection of built environment, machine intelligence and systems thinking. Specifically, her work focuses on the acquisition, modeling, and analysis of the data needed for user centered built environments, and the development of novel frameworks, visualization and immersion techniques to improve built-environment efficiency while increasing user satisfaction. She puts a specific focus on human-building communication to change both user behavior and building behavior through trust in automation. Her research puts a deliberate emphasis on people centric artificial intelligence for the built environment, for example smart workstations to improve well being in the workplace.

Awards and Honors
In 2012, Becerik-Gerber was appointed as the inaugural holder of the Stephen Schrank Early Career Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering. She is the recipient of MIT Technology Review’s TR35 Recognition (2012), NSF CAREER Award (2014), Viterbi Junior Research Award (2016), Mellon Mentoring Award (2017), Celebration of Engineering & Technology Innovation Award (CETI) in the Outstanding Early Career Researcher category from FIATECH (2018) and the Rutherford Visiting Fellowship at the Alan Turing Institute, U.K. (2018). She also serves as an Associate Editor for ASCE’s Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering since 2011.

Selected Works

 * 1) Intelligent adaptive automation: A framework for an activity-driven and user-centered building automation, Energy and Buildings, Volumes 188–189, 1 April 2019, Pages 184-199
 * 2) Establishing Social Dialog between Buildings and Their Users, International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction
 * 3) Smart IoT desk for personalizing indoor environmental conditions, IOT '18 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Internet of Things, Article No. 35
 * 4) Buildings with persona: Towards effective building-occupant communication, Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 75, October 2017, Pages 607-618
 * 5) Towards user centered building design: Identifying end-user lighting preferences via immersive virtual environments, Automation in Construction, Volume 81, September 2017, Pages 56-66
 * 6) One size does not fit all: Understanding user preferences for building automation systems, Energy and Buildings, Volume 145, 15 June 2017, Pages 163-173
 * 7) Human-Building Interaction Framework for Personalized Thermal Comfort-Driven Systems in Office Buildings, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, Volume 28 Issue 1 - January 2014