Presenters

Restruct Symposium Speaker Bios

Matt Bhumbla, Global IFS

Matt Bhumbla Bio: Matt has been in HVAC industry for more than 17 years. The focus of his work has been air distribution systems and their application and effect on built environment. This included Mixed Air Systems (like: Overhead VAV, Chilled Beams, VRF systems , Fan Coil Systems and others) and Stratified Air Systems (Like Underfloor Air Distribution and Displacement Ventilation). He believes that air distribution systems are central to the science of comfort in a built environment and can play a big role in minimizing airborne transmission exposure in occupied spaces.

Altaf Engineer, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture

Altaf Engineer, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture and University of Arizona Institute on Place, Wellbeing and Performance (UA IPWP), an interdisciplinary institute at the University of Arizona that links expertise of the UA College of Medicine - Tucson, the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine (AzCIM) and the UA College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA). He is Chair of the Master of Science in Architecture Health and Built Environment Program (MS Arch - HBE) at CAPLA. Altaf’s scholarship, teaching and practice are informed by his interest in health and the built environment with a special focus on social and behavioral factors in design, and daylighting. He is a recipient of the Emerging Legacy Award from the University of Illinois. He is first author of the book Shedding New Light On Art Museum Additions: Front Stage and Back Stage Experiences published in 2018 and has numerous peer-reviewed publications in the field of design and health. Altaf is a cofounder of Architects For Society (AFS), a nonprofit design practice of allied professionals from the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East and India formed in 2015 with a mission to serve disadvantaged communities through innovative architecture and design. The Hex House, a housing prototype for displaced populations around the globe developed by the group, has received the German Design Council Iconic Award 2016 and American Architecture Prize 2016, Bronze medal in Architectural Design/Social Housing Category.

Brian Fleck, PhD, Peng, ICD.D, Professor, Faculty of Engineering – Mechanical Engineering Dept. University of Alberta

Research interests in fluid dynamics, mixing and turbulence, multiphase flow and atomization and renewable energy. Current projects include:

Improving the atomization performance of nozzles in two phase flow for oilsands cokers and diesel injectors.

Mixing of impinging and counterflow jets in crossflows to simulate hazardous atmospheric releases.

Study of droplet entrainment and drag reduction in thin sheared liquid layers.

Practical evaluation of residential wind turbines in Alberta.

William Fulton, Director of the Kinder Institute

William Fulton is the director of Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research. He is a former mayor of Ventura, California, and director of planning & economic development for the city of San Diego. Since arriving at the Kinder Institute in 2014, Fulton has overseen a tripling of the Institute’s size and budget. He is the author of six books, including Guide to California Planning, the standard urban planning textbook in California, and The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles, which was an L.A. Times best-seller. His most recent book is Talk City: A Chronicle Of Political Life In An All-American Town. He currently serves as board chair for Metro Lab Network, a national network of research partnerships between cities and universities, and vice chair of LINK Houston, a transportation equity advocacy group. Fulton holds master’s degrees in mass communication from The American University and urban planning from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Charles P. Gerba, Professor, Environmental Science

Chuck Gerba is a professor in the Department Environmental Science. He conducts research on the transmission of pathogens by water, food and in health care environments. He has been an author on more than 500 per reviewed articles and several textbooks in environmental microbiology and risk assessment. Among his current research projects include assessment of novel technologies disinfection for the control of coronavirus; use of wastewater monitoring to identify and predict number of cases of coronavirus in a hospital or community, and quantitative microbial risk assessment.

Linsey Graff, Senior Campus Planner, DLR Group

Linsey has dedicated her career to planning learning environments with an emphasis on community-focused design processes and supporting equity within our academic communities. She has served as both an institutional representative (at the University at Buffalo) as well as worked in private practice. As a Senior Campus Planner at DLR Group, Linsey has engaged with multiple universities across the nation to develop comprehensive campus plans, sustainability plans, and strategic visioning. In 2017, Linsey was honored with an AIA Associates Award, a recognition given to outstanding leaders and creative thinkers for significant contributions to their communities and the architecture profession.

Aletheia Ida, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, University of Arizona College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture

Aletheia Ida, PhD, is an Architect and Associate Professor at the University of Arizona developing interdisciplinary design theory for robust frameworks to inform applied research in emergent environmental building technologies. She is the Director of the Adaptive Environmental Design Lab at the UA and recipient of the 2018 AIA Arizona Research Design Award for her work on Symbiotic Matter: A Research and Design Framework for Emerging Building Technologies. Aletheia is also Founding Director of Ecollagency – an innovative non-profit interdisciplinary practice for addressing emerging societal issues such as environmental, socio-economic, and ecological challenges that require multiple expertise to inform potential solutions or processes within the built environment for adaptation and change. She has recently lectured at Yale University, Princeton’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and the Center for Ecosystems and Architecture at the New Lab in Brooklyn. Her design and research is published widely and is recognized through the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and funded by the National Science Foundation, Salt River Project, Tucson Water, and Microsoft.

Shujuan Li, Associate Professor, School of Landscape Architecture

Shujuan Li, PhD is an Associate Professor in the School of Landscape Architecture and Planning and a member of the Institute on Place, Wellbeing & Performance (IPWP) at the University of Arizona. Dr. Li’s research interests include the integration of spatial analysis and modeling with GIS for urban and environmental studies, applications of geospatial big data in urban planning, geodesign, landscape ecology, and land-use dynamics and planning. She is recipient of the Boggess Award for the best paper published in the Journal of American Water Resources Association in 2015. Dr. Li’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, CELA/CLASS Fund, Madison House Foundation, and the Border Environmental Cooperation Commission.

Toni M. Massaro, Regents Professor, Milton O. Riepe Chair in Constitutional Law, and Dean Emerita

Professor Toni Massaro received her B.B. degree, with highest distinction, from Northwestern University. She obtained her law degree from the College of William and Mary, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the William and Mary Law Review. Massaro was in private practice in Chicago with Vedder, Price, Kaufman and Kammholz. She also taught at Washington and Lee University, Stanford University, UNC-Chapel Hill, the University of Florida, and Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. Prof. Massaro joined the faculty at the University of Arizona College of Law in 1989.Since 1997, she has been the Milton O. Riepe Chair in Constitutional Law. In 2006, she was named a Regents Professor by the Arizona Board of Regents. From 1999 - 2009, she served as Dean of the College of Law, the first woman to hold that post. Prof. Massaro is the author of The Arc of Due Process in American Constitutional Law (with E. Thomas Sullivan), Constitutional Literacy: A Core Curriculum for a Multicultural Nation, and Civil Procedure: Cases and Problems (with Barbara Allen Babcock and Norman Spaulding). She also is the author of dozens of law review articles on constitutional law, shame penalties, and law and emotion. Massaro’s publications have appeared in the Stanford Law Review, NYU Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Michigan Law Review, UNC Law Review, USC Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Columbia Human Rights Law Review, and William and Mary Law Review, among others. She currently teaches Constitutional Law I, Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Religion, and Equal Protection. Prof. Massaro is an eight-time recipient of the Teacher of the Year Award. She currently serves as the Director of the Agnese Nelms Haury Program on Social and Environmental Justice at the University of Arizona.

Brian Olasov, Executive Director – Financial Services, consulting, Carlton Fields

Brian Olasov has more than three decades of strategic business and capital market experience and also an extensive background on real estate capital markets, troubled mortgage loans, and banking challenges. He works closely with the firm’s clients and attorneys providing financial due diligence on distressed mortgage loans, portfolios, and institutions including credit restructuring, valuation, bulk sales, and securitization. He provides analytical litigation support to the firm by developing damage estimates and financial implications of legal theories.

Brian provides expert witness testimony to other law firms in disputes involving residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities (MBS), mortgage loan servicing and mortgage loan origination. Brian has testified before the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) on MBS and banks’ impact on real estate markets.

He serves or has served on a variety of boards and committees including board of governors, executive committee, audit committee member, and chair of the Policy Committee of the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council (CREFC); board of governors of Commercial Mortgage Securitization Association (CMSA), co-chair of CMSA International Committee, and CMSA European Chapter founder; vice chairman of the Real Estate Capital Resources Association Mortgage Securitization Committee; editorial board member of Commercial Real Estate Finance World; and board member of the Trigild Advisory Council. He is also an active participant in the Mortgage Bankers Association, Georgia Bankers Association, and Yale Alumni Schools Committee.

Ian L. Pepper, Professor Environmental Science, Director, WEST Center University of Arizona

Dr. Pepper is currently Professor at the University of Arizona. He is also Director of the University of Arizona, National Science Foundation Water & Environmental Technology Center (WET), and Co-Director of the new Water and Energy Sustainable Technology Center known as WEST. Dr. Pepper is an environmental microbiologist whose research has focused on the fate and transport of pathogens in air, water, soils and wastes. More recently he has developed the University of Arizona, Real-Time Sensor Laboratory for the detection of emerging contaminants in water. His expertise has been recognized by membership on 6 National Academy of Science Committees. Dr. Pepper is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Microbiology, the Soil Science Society of America, and the American Society of Agronomy. He is also a Board Certified Environmental Scientist within the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists. He is the author or co-author of eight textbooks; 40 book chapters; and over 163 peer-review journal articles.

Young-Jun Son, Professor and Head, Systems and Industrial Engineering Department

Young-Jun Son is a Professor and Department Head of Systems and Industrial Engineering at University of Arizona. His research focuses on a data-driven, multi-scale, simulation and decision model needed for design and control in various applications, including extended manufacturing enterprise, homeland security, healthcare, and social network. He has authored/co-authored over 97 journal papers and 100 conference papers. He is a Fellow of Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), and has received the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) 2004 Outstanding Young ME Award, the IIE 2005 Outstanding Young IE Award, the IISE Annual Meeting Best Paper Awards (2005, 2008, 2009, 2016, 2018, 2019), and Best Paper of the Year Award in 2007 from International Journal of IE. His research activities have been funded by NSF, AFOSR, DOT/FHWA, US Department of Energy/AZ Commerce Authority, USDA, NIST, Sandia National Lab, Science Foundation of Arizona, Boeing, Samsung, Motorola, Raytheon, Tucson Electric Power, Microsoft, and several application software companies. He is a Department Editor for IISE Transactions, on the editorial board for seven additional journals. He was the vice chair and secretary for the SISO Core Manufacturing Simulation Data (CMSD) Standard Product Development Group. He has served as co-Program Chair for ISERC 2007, the General Chair for INFORMS Annual Meeting 2018, and the General Chair for Winter Simulation Conference 2019.

Esther M. Sternberg, Professor, Medicine - (Research Scholar Track) and Psychology, Director of Research, Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine, Director, Institute on Place, Wellbeing, and Performance, Inaugural Andrew Weil Endowed Chair for Research in Integrative Medicine

Internationally recognized pioneer in design and health, Dr. Sternberg is Founding Director of University of Arizona’s Institute on Place, Wellbeing & Performance, founding member of the American Institute of Architects Design and Health Leadership Group and Design and Health Research Consortium; has advised the US Surgeon General’s Office, US General Services Administration, US Department of Defense, US Green Building Council on the impact of the built environment on health. Her work with GSA using wearable and real-time devices is informing building design and operation standards for health. Previously NIH Senior Scientist and Section Chief, she authored >225 scholarly articles, two popular books including Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Wellbeing (Harvard University Press), which helped launch the field, and hosted PBS Television Special Science of Healing. A dynamic speaker, Dr. Sternberg is frequently interviewed and invited to keynote, including Australian Green Cities, TEDx, Vatican’s 27th Pontifical Council for Healthcare Workers, and NIH Health in Buildings Roundtable.

Milana Boukhman Trounce, MD MBA, Clinical Professor and Director of BioSecurity and Pandemic Resilience, Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford Medical School, Chair, BioSecurity, American College of Emergency Physicians

Dr. Boukhman Trounce graduated from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine and went on to complete her emergency medicine residency and fellowship in Disaster Medicine and Bioterrorism Response at Harvard Medical School. She worked with the Center for Integration of Medicine and Technology (CIMT), a consortium of Harvard teaching hospitals and MIT, where she led BioSecurity related projects in conjunction with the US State Department. She also received her MBA from Stanford Business School.

After Harvard she joined UCSF as an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and was Medical Director for Disaster Response. For the past 11 years, she has been at Stanford Medical School, where she is a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine.

She directs the BioSecurity program at Stanford, focused on protecting society from pandemics and other threats posed by infectious organisms, with a specific emphasis on approaches to interrupting transmission of infectious organisms in various settings. The background for the approach is outlined in her briefing at the Hoover Institute. Stanford BioSecurity facilitates the creation of interdisciplinary solutions by bringing together experts in biology, medicine, public health, disaster management, policy, engineering, technology, and business.

At Stanford, over the past ten years she has established and directed a class on BioSecurity and Pandemic Resilience, which examines ways of building global societal resilience to pandemics and other biothreats and has educated over a thousand students. She had also taught an online Harvard course on medical response to biological terrorism, educating thousands of physicians globally.

She has served as a spokeswoman for the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and is a founding Chair of BioSecurity at ACEP. In addition to her academic research and speaking at national conferences, she also consults nationally and internationally to healthcare systems, governments, businesses, investors, and the legal profession.

Steven J. Winston

Leader of international consortium to deliver nuclear medicine and radiopharmaceuticals to Lesser Developed Countries in Africa, MENA, and SE Asia. Independent technical advisor to Lockheed Martin, Kellogg Brown and Root, US Department of Energy, Valvtechnologies, Idaho National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Rice University, Texas A&M University, University of Chicago, Long Island University, and University of Alberta. Collaborative affiliation with Swansea University, Arizona State University, University of Arizona, PAR Systems, Dassault Systemes, Raytheon, General Atomics, Yale Medical School, and General Dynamics.

Forty-eight years of experience in various aspects of research, engineering, and construction, serving in a variety of senior management roles for major corporations. Previous experience: Vice President, Lockheed Martin; VP/Director, Idaho National Laboratory; Vice President, Parsons Engineering; Vice President and General Manager, AWC-Lockheed (a wholly owned Lockheed subsidiary); Manager of Power Plant Design Engineering, Westinghouse Electric Corporation; Regional Director Energy Incorporated; and Research Engineer, Allied Chemical.

Specific expertise in nuclear sciences, nuclear medicine, environmental stewardship, large scale-complex construction, advanced energy systems, and process engineering. Chemical engineer/nuclear engineer/neuroscientist with a very diverse hands-on experience base ranging from nuclear fuel reprocessing, developing novel accelerator-based methods for medical isotope production, to managing major first-of-a-kind research and engineering projects. Managed diverse large-scale design and construction projects ranging from disposition of transuranic wastes to building and starting up entire power plants and chemical processes. Oversight in excess of $1.5 billion of capital projects at any particular time.

Advocate/agent provocateur in exploring the intersection of molecular sciences and advanced materials. Host and organizer of series of internationally sponsored academic symposia on molecular scale manufacturing, computational modeling, and artificial intelligence, extending additive and subtractive methods into nano- and atomic-scale domains, application of femto-second, high-energy pulsed lasers for ultra-precision cutting and bonding metals without a Heat Affected Zone, use of laser wakefields for particle acceleration, accelerator driven subcritical assemblies, and use of inorganic (boron nitride) nano structures as light-weight radiation shielding/reflectors to protect astronauts and electronics from cosmic rays.

Menka Vansant, Innovation Analyst

Menka Vansant is an Innovation Analyst at BSI Group in Scottsdale, AZ. She earned a BA in Economics from Skidmore College and a Master’s in Science and Technology Policy from Arizona State University. At BSI, she is responsible for designing and creating innovative technical solutions for different streams and sectors. Projects include the utilization of artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones, smart cities, and IoT. Before BSI, she worked for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Volpe Center in Cambridge, MA, as an Economist in the Technology Innovation & Policy Division.

Bo Yang, Professor School of Landscape Architecture

Bo Yang PhD, PLA, AICP is a professor of landscape architecture and urban planning in the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of Arizona and a member of UArizona Institute on Place, Wellbeing & Performance (IPWP). Dr. Yang is a leading researcher on urban green infrastructure and landscape performance evaluation, particularly focusing on stormwater management and climate resilience. Dr. Yang was CELA Vice President for Research and Creative Scholarship and a Research Fellow of the Landscape Architecture Foundation. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Geological Survey, Landscape Architecture Foundation, National Natural Science Foundation of China and others. His books include Landscape Performance: Ian McHarg’s ecological planning in The Woodlands, Texas (Routledge), Ecological Wisdom: Theory and Practice (Springer-Nature), and Evaluating Landscape Performance: A Guidebook for Metrics and Methods Selection (LAF). Dr. Yang is a licensed Landscape Architect and a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.