Shichao Liu

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Assistant Professor

Affiliated Department or Office:

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Education:

Postdoc University of California, Berkeley 2017

PhD The University of Texas at Austin 2014

BS/MS Tianjin University, China 2009

Prof. Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). His research focuses on built and urban environment, occupant-building-environment interaction, and integrated design for sustainable and healthy buildings. Prof. Liu envisions his research promoting built sustainability and occupant well-being through the interface among building science, information science, public health, and social science.

sliu8@wpi.edu

Office Location

Kaven Hall 104

Personal Website

Research Interests

Research Interests:

Sustainable and smart buildings

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling

Building energy modeling

Thermal comfort

Indoor air pollution and control

Human-environment interaction

Built and urban environment

Scholarly Work

Feng, Q., Cai, H., Li, F., Liu, X., Liu, S. and Xu, J., 2019. An improved particle swarm optimization method for locating time-varying indoor particle sources. Building and Environment, 147, pp.146-157. - 2019

Ghahramani, A., Pantelic, J., Vannucci, M., Pistore, L., Liu, S., Gilligan, B., Alyasin, S. and Arens, E., 2018. Personal CO2 Bubble: Context-dependent Variations and Wearable Sensors Usability. Journal of Building Engineering. - 2018

Jin, M., Liu, S., Schiavon, S., & Spanos, C. (2018). Automated mobile sensing: Towards high-granularity agile indoor environmental quality monitoring. Building and Environment, 127, 268-276. doi: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2017.11.003 - 2018

Chen, W., Liu, S., Gao, Y., Zhang, H., Arens, E., Zhao, L., & Liu, J. (2018). Experimental and numerical investigations of indoor air movement distribution with an office ceiling fan. Building and Environment, 130, 14-26. doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2017.12.016

Gao, Y., Zhang, H., Arens, E., Present, E., Ning, B., Zhai, Y., Pantelic, J., Luo, M., Zhao, L., Raftery, P., Liu, S. (2017). Ceiling fan air speeds around desks and office partitions. Building and Environment. doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2017.08.029 - 2017

Liu, S., Schiavon, S., Kabanshi, A. and Nazaroff, W. (2017). Predicted percentage dissatisfied with ankle draft. Indoor Air. 00:1-11. doi:10.1111/ina.12364. - 2017

Professional Affiliations

Professional Affiliations:

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)

International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA)

International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ)

The American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR)

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Professional Highlights & Honors

Professional Highlights & Honors:

2017

University of California, Berkeley

2015

Singapore-Berkeley Building Efficiency and Sustainability in the Tropics (SinBerBEST)

2015

Golden Gate ASHRAE

2011

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating & Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)

2008

Tianjin University

2007

Tianjin University

News

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Shichao Liu

WPI Awarded NSF Grant to Study Stress and Remote Learning

May 13, 2020

Two students work on an experiment in the lab while wearing safety goggles and lab coats behind a protective screen.

The Month in Photos: January 2020

February 07, 2020

WPI students (from left) Kaitlyn Smith and Christopher Mercer.

WPI Awarded Grant to Study Best Environment for Learning

January 23, 2020

Media Coverage

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Boston 25

Boston 25 News at 6PM

Boston 25 (Fox) News interviewed Shichao Liu, assistant professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, (18:24:31 mark) for a report on energy saving homes. “If you think about energy consumption reduction in the future to save the planet, then we have to look at the consumption by buildings. Using passive house standards, we can significantly reduce energy consumption by buildings.”

WBUR 90.9

WPI Receives Grant to Study Student Stress and Remote Learning

WBUR spoke with Shichao Liu, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, about his work on how the novel coronavirus global pandemic is affecting stress in college students and their ability to learn in remote settings.