Project Milestones

Funded follow-on projects and new leveraged funding for the projects initiated by the Institute

Direct Follow-on Study: Pilot Field Deployment Smart City Corridor

Direct Follow-on Study  Pilot Field Deployment Smart City Corridor

Project Director: Darryl Keeton, Sensagrate CEO and Founder

Sensagrate and Innoviz Technologies and Launch Smart Corridor at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Our Zimin Institute collaborator Sensagrate is partnering with Innoviz Technologies, an Israeli solid-state LiDAR sensors and perception company, to deploy a smart intersection corridor pilot at UCLA. The pilot is a direct follow-on to the Zimin Institute-funded project in which Sensagrate’s SensaVision Platform, enabled by InnovizOne LiDARs, was originally deployed and field tested in Scottsdale, Arizona. The integrated hardware-software solution gathers data on traffic volume and other roadside safety metrics for root cause analysis of pedestrian-related incidents, improving pedestrian and automobile safety. The smart corridor will test smart sensing for infrastructure-to-vehicle (I2V) and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) applications. In addition to the sensors on the infrastructure, the platform is further connected with UCLA’s autonomous vehicle system, enhancing the V2X analytics.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/innoviz-technologies-sensagrate-launch-smart-111200164.html?guccounter=1

Direct Follow-on Study: Pilot Field Deployment Smart City Intersection

Project Director: Darryl Keeton, Sensagrate CEO and Founder

Tucson testing new high-tech camera monitoring at busy intersection

With their own funding, Sensagrate is also conducting a single intersection pilot deployment project in Tucson in 2023. This too is a direct follow-on to the Zimin Institute funded project.

https://www.kvoa.com/news/tucson-testing-new-high-tech-camera-monitoring-at-busy-intersection/article_7f0f4e86-e932-11ed-bfc7-7b0b21de1d56.html

Fall 2022 — Softlight:Chemical-free technology for removing water hardness

Project Director: Paul Westerhoff

Westerhoff is the lead on a new $750,000 NSF/CASIS (Center for the Advancement of Science in Space) entitled: Biofilm Inhibition with Germicidal Light Side-emitted from Nano-enabled Flexible Optical Fibers in Water Systems. The chemical-free fiber optic water treatment technology being developed by his lab and ASU startup partner H₂Optic Insights will be the basis for experiments utilizing on the International Space Station. The grant includes $400K to ASU for ground-based further technology development, and $350K to space deployment partner BioServ (University of Colorado).

Fall 2022 – Creating a Circular Economy between Indoor Vertical Farming and Food Waste

Project Directors: Yujin Park and Zhihao Chen

The promise of low carbon footprint food sourcing and dramatically-reduced water use (95% less!) is driving the acceleration in vertical farming development activity by both startups and large companies. Zhihao Chen, as a co-founder of ASU startup Homer Farms, Inc., is leading the effort to build a 10,000-square-foot vertical farm facility in Phoenix. Partial funding in the amount of $100,000 was received from City of Phoenix. This new capability was introduced in an online article: https://www.emergingtechbrew.com/stories/2022/11/01/inside-phoenix-s-high-tech-plan-to-grow-its-own-veggies.

Additional City of Phoenix funding was awarded to the PDs’ Indoor Farming Lab with a 1:1 match from ASU; the total leveraged funding received was $105,277.

Summer 2022 – A data-driven approach for water safety plans in sustainable buildings to predict and prevent disease

Project Director: Kerry Hamilton

Hamilton has been awarded a new $157,302 NSF grant titled “Collaborative Research: An integrative framework for decision support models including plumbing system dynamics and value of information to meet Legionella control goals” that is a direct follow-on to her Zimin Institute project. Partners include the New York State Department of Health and the College of New Jersey. Hamilton will work with the NY DoH to install the sensor suite developed at ASU in some of their healthcare buildings. Details are provided in the NSF link: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2147106&HistoricalAwards=false

Fall 2021 – Passive Radiative Heat Pump Surfaces for Urban Cooling: From Laboratory to Field Testing

Project Director David Sailor

In response to the positive publicity generated by the Zimin Institute project, the project team was invited by the ASU-led Healthy Urban Environments (HUE) initiative funded by the Maricopa County Industrial Development Authority (MCIDA) at ASU for a proposal for a follow-on scale-up study. The HUE is focused on convening and translating evidence-based research and evaluation of heat mitigation and air-quality management efforts intro useful solutions that can be implemented across Maricopa County. The team’s work on their Zimin Institute funded project is aligned with that focus, and their subsequent proposal to design, deploy and test a cool ramada in a city park has been funded by both HUE ($96K) and 3M ($73K). 3M has also recently approved an additional $40K (for a total of $113K) for scaling studies over the next ~2 years.

Fall 2021 – Softlight: Chemical free technology for water softening

Project Director Paul Westerhoff

The team recently secured a $50K grant from healthcare giant Baxter International to perform a Techno-Economic Analysis (TEA) of their innovative Softlight chemical-free water softening technology for in-home dialysis units with integrated water treatment. The TEA model subsequently developed by the team showed that Softlight has a ~5x lower cost than commercially-available ion exchange or membrane technologies. In addition, the model revealed the key cost drivers in the new novel technology; this insight ensures that future development work will focus on economically-relevant improvements.

Fall 2021 – A data-driven approach for water safety plans in sustainable buildings to predict and prevent disease

Project Director Kerry Hamilton

The project team has partnered with the New York State Department of Health; they will provide in-kind support in the amount of ~$10K to install sensors and collect data in healthcare facilities in New York, while we will gather data in parallel with the Zimin Institute sponsored project.

Technical Milestones

Fall 2022 – Creating a Circular Economy between Indoor Vertical Farming and Food Waste

Project Directors: Yujin Park and Zhihao Chen

The team investigated the effect of crude food waste fertilizer ozone treatment duration on observed nitrate (NO₃) concentration and found that NO₃ concentration increased linearly as shown in the figure for typical conditions. This critical result indicates that ozone treatment will indeed make such treated food waste fertilizer substantially more efficient for plant nitrogen uptake than untreated food waste, confirming the original foundational hypothesis for the project.

line graph of ozone treatment duration

Fall 2022 – Textile Engineering of Polyethylene Recycling for Future Vehicles

Project Director: Kenan Song

Assembly of the lab-scale fiber spinning apparatus, startup and qualification of the unit, optimization of fiber composition, and fiber property testing standardization were successfully completed in the first few months of the project. Initial process runs demonstrated that optimized fibers exhibit properties measurably superior to conventional commercial carbon fibers. A new patent disclosure will be filed based on these promising results.

Summer 2022 – A data-driven approach for water safety plans in sustainable buildings to predict and prevent disease

Project Director: Hamilton

The team conducted a comprehensive field study to target the source of Legionella contamination in a green building. This work uncovered the water softener and an expansion tank as an understudied source of contamination. The study will be detailed in a publication in Frontiers in Water to appear in early 2023.

In addition to Legionella sampling, the project team collected sensor and other water quality data. Machine learning (ML) algorithms are being developed to predict chlorine residual; the goal is that such predictions could inform facilities management software tools. Initial results are encouraging. The figure below shows reasonably good ML model predictions for chlorine residual over a 24 hour period.

predictive residual chlorine models chart

Fall 2021 – Storytelling Robots for Older Adults Living with Dementia and Their Caregivers

Project Director Troy McDaniel

Our story-telling robots project originally aimed at assisting caregivers for Alzheimer’s sufferers has broadened to dealing with seniors’ loneliness and isolation in the era of COVID. In this expansion of scope and scale, a new partnership with Mirabella Independent Living has been established. Initial studies with Mirabella residents revealed encouraging results: people open up with the robot and undertake deep levels of conversation; interactions are described as meaningful and fun; some perceive facial expression in the robots; some consider the robot to be a friend.

August 2021 – Storytelling Robots for Older Adults Living with Dementia and Their Caregivers

Project Director Troy McDaniel

The newly-published book entitled Multimedia for Accessible Human Computer Interfaces, edited by Troy McDaniel and Xueliang Liu (ISBN-10: 3030707156), is a comprehensive tour of human-assistive technologies. This major work is the first resource to provide in-depth coverage on topical areas of multimedia computing (images, video, audio, speech, haptics, VR/AR, etc.) for accessible and inclusive human computer interfaces. Topics are grouped into thematic areas spanning the human senses: Vision, Hearing, Touch, as well as Multimodal applications. Each chapter is written by different multimedia researcher experts to provide complementary and multidisciplinary perspectives. Unlike other related books, which focus on guidelines for designing accessible interfaces, or are dated in their coverage of cutting-edge multimedia technologies, Multimedia for Accessible Human Computer Interfaces takes an application-oriented approach to present a tour of how the field of multimedia is advancing access to human computer interfaces for individuals with disabilities.

Summer 2021 – Passive Radiative Heat Pump Surfaces for Urban Cooling: From Laboratory to Field Testing

Project Director David Sailor

In this partnership with the City of Tempe and 3M, the Zimin-Institute-funded team installed 3M-supplied radiative cooling thin films on the rooftops of transit stops for a bus route in Tempe and found their thermal performance to be quite promising. The films exhibit high solar reflectance of ~94% (vs. 45% typical surface) and a high thermal emittance of ~93% (vs. 70% typical), such that surfaces on which they are installed can remain substantially below the urban ambient temperature. Comprehensive studies over a range of summer days and times-of-day cool revealed that the film surface is 0.63 °C (1.1 °F) cooler than ambient air, while conventional surfaces are 3.6 °C (6.4 °F) hotter than ambient air. Bus riders under the cool film shelter experience mean radiant temperatures (MRT) that are ~ 1-2 °C (~2-4 °F) cooler than under control shelters without the films. Based on these positive outcomes, the City of Tempe is considering incorporation of cooling films in future bus shelter design, bus roofs and other shade infrastructure. In addition, the results are being shared with other cities on the Phoenix metropolitan area to assess their interest.

Spring 2021 – Treated Waste Plastics: Enhancing the Performance of Concrete

Project Director Christian Hoover

This Zimin Institute project focused on repurposing waste plastic generated within a city and subjecting to a treatment process to enable its use in cement being used to build the city (thereby enabling a circular re-use while substantially reducing carbon footprint). This process, for which the team has submitted a patent application, has demonstrated that a beam made by replacing a small percent of the cement with treated plastics can cause a dramatic increase in the ability of the cement to absorb energy, making it more ductile and durable while preserving most of its strength, when compared to a reference made of pure cement. At the limit, by using their unique plastic chemical pre-treatment process, the team realized an unprecedented increase of a factor of 7 in energy absorption for a 16 wt% plastic incorporation level. The new formulation in addition reduces the concrete’s CO2 footprint. These dramatic findings are serving as the basis for discussions with potential investors and for major proposal submissions to federal agencies.

Invited Presentations

Chester, M. V. (2022). Observing human-scale urban air pollution and temperature using sensor-embedded light-rail public transportation. Presented study findings to the Transportation Research Board, Tempe, AZ.
Czerniaeski, T. (2022, November 23). Abstracting the Built Environment: From Reality Capture to Artificial Intelligence [Invited Seminar]. • Thomas Czerniawski Seminar at University of Waterloo: Abstracting the Built Environment: From Reality Capture to Artificial Intelligence, University of Waterloo.
Czerniaeski, T. (2022, November 24). Abstracting the Built Environment: From Reality Capture to Artificial Intelligence [Invited Seminar]. Thomas Czerniawski Seminar at Prevu3D: Abstracting the Built Environment: From Reality Capture to Artificial Intelligence, Prevu3D Inc, 4911 rue Dagenais suite 201, Montreal, QC H4C 1L8 [email protected].
Czerniaeski, T. (2022, November 25). Abstracting the Built Environment: From Reality Capture to Artificial Intelligence [Invited seminar]. Thomas Czerniawski Seminar at Concordia University: Abstracting the Built Environment: From Reality Capture to Artificial Intelligence, Concordia University.
Czerniaeski, T. (2022, December 9). City of Tempe and HDR technology overview and networking [Networking Event]. Smith Road Pedestrian and Bicycle Improvements Public Forum, Tempe, AZ.
Haig, S.-J., Hamilton, K. A., & Proctor, C. R. (2022, March 30). Puzzled by drinking water-associated pathogens: We need a holistic approach to their research, management, and communication [Puzzled by Legionella Webinar Series].
Hamilton, K. A. (2022, June 21). Modeling Approaches for Quantifying the Human Health Risks of Antimicrobial Resistance in Natural and Built Environments. Microbiology of the Built Environment Gordon Research Conference, Retrieved May 24, 2023, from https://www.grc.org/microbiology-of-the-built-environment-conference/2022/
Hamilton, K. A. (2021, December 3). Advancing computational frameworks for predicting and preventing microbial risks in the built environment [Invited Boase Lecture].
Hamilton, K. A. (2022, April 20). Proactively managing pathogens: Computing risks in the built environment. 72nd Annual KU Environmental Engineering Conference, University of Kansas.
Hamilton, K. A. (2023, April 21). Toward proactive management of Legionella and premise plumbing water quality [Invited seminar]. Opportunistic Pathogen group at Virginia Tech, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
Joshi, S., Richard, R., Westerhoff, P., Boyer, T. H., & Hamilton, K. A. (2021, July 7). Evaluation of Legionella and physical-chemical water quality parameters in a LEED building after reduced occupancy during the COVID-19 pandemic [NSF Building Water Stagnation, Legionella, and Metals (SLAM)].
King, R., Middel, A., Douglass, K., Gregory, C., Chen, E., & Sailor, D. (2021, April 22). Cooling urban mass transit shelters with radiative control films [Invited Lecture]. Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies (QESST) NSF-DOE Engineering Research Center (ERC) Thrust 3 Meeting.
Park, Y. (2023, April 19). Circular Food System Research [Invited Lecture]. 2023 NCERA 101 Annual Meeting.
Park, Y. (2023, April 26). Hydroponic Cultivation of Leafy Vegetables Using Food Waste Fertilizer with a Focus on EC and Nitrogen Levels [Invited Lecture]. ASU CISA Research Showcase, ASU, Tempe, AZ.
Sailor, D. (2020, September 30). Benefits of innovative radiative cooling technologies for buildings and the urban environment [Invited Lecture]. Cool Building Solutions Collaborative, LBNL, Berkely, CA (Virtual).
Sailor, D. (2020, October 30). Quantifying the benefits of recent innovations in products for cooling the urban environment [Invited Lecture]. 3M Tech Forum, Minneapolis, Mn (Virtual).
Sailor, D. (2020, November 18). Urban Heat Mitigation: Bridging research, design, and urban environmental planning [Invited Lecture]. Invited presentation, USC School of Architecture, Los Angeles CA (Virtual).
Sailor, D. (2021, March 3). Facilitating urban cooling technology innovation and adoption through living laboratory experiments [Invited Lecture]. Sustainability Institute at Ohio State University, series on Smart and Resilient Communities, Columbus, OH.
Sailor, D. (2021, March 23). Urban Cooling Technologies: Breaking down barriers to widespread implementation [Invited Distinguished Speaker series]. Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO.
Sailor, D. (2021, April 2). The City as a Laboratory for Exploring Heat Mitigation Strategies [Invited Lecture]. “City as Lab” NSF Research Coordination Network, Virtual.
Sailor, D. (2021, July 27). Radiative Cooling Approaches for Improved Building and Urban Thermal Environments [Invited Keynote Speaker]. Third International Conference of Chemical, Energy and Environmental Engineering ICCEEE 2021, Alexandria, EGYPT.
Sailor, D. (2022, April 8). Barriers and Opportunities for Urban Cooling Strategies: A case for living laboratory experiments [Invited Lecture]. Invited presentation to the Energy Technologies Area, Urban Systems Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Sailor, D. (2022, September 5). On the front lines of extreme heat: Experimenting with innovative strategies and technologies for cooling the hottest US cities [Invited Keynote Speaker]. Comfort at the Extremes conference, Edinburgh, UK.
Shutters, S. (2023, February 16). Using multidimensional networks to better understand constraints and possibilities of urban development [Invited Lecture]. Western Regional Science Association 2023 meeting, Waikoloa, Hawaii.
Shutters, S. (2023, March 29). How can the Economic Forecasting tool be used to improve economic outcomes in regions of Germany that were economically disrupted due to German’s clean energy transition (e.g. Closure of coal mines). (2023, March 29). Center for Science Policy Outcomes with the U.S. Department of Commerce leadership and delegates from the White House, Center for Science Policy Outcomes, Washington, DC.
Westerhoff, P. (2023). Implications of SoftLight on reducing hard water and increasing H2O2. (x10)
NOTE: Dr. Westerhoff has presented SoftLight technology at least 10 invited and distinguished lectures throughout the world. These lectures are not listed here but are counted in the total.
Heida, A., & Hamilton, K. A. (2021, February). Quantitative model for horizontal gene transfer of ESBL E. coli and subsequent risk in recreational waters containing wastewater effluent [Poster]. SSEBE graduate research symposium, ASU, Tempe, AZ.
Joshi, S., & Hamilton, K. A. (2021, Fall). Pinpointing the factors for widespread colonization of Legionella pneumophila in a green LEED building after a period of reduced occupancy during the COVID-19 pandemic [Poster]. 11th Annual SSEBE Graduate Research symposium, ASU, Tempe, AZ.
Joshi, S., & Hamilton, K. A. (2022, Spring). Pinpointing the factors for widespread colonization of Legionella pneumophila in a green LEED building after a period of reduced occupancy during the COVID-19 pandemic [Poster]. Biodesign Fusion Retreat/EPAZ conference, ASU, Tempe, AZ.
Joshi, S., & Hamilton, K. A. (2022, June 19). Identifying drivers of the widespread colonization of Legionella pneumophila in a green building: Roles of water softener system and reduced occupancy [Poster]. Gordon Research Conference on Microbiology of the Built Environment, Waterville Valley, NH.
Joshi, S., Hamilton, K. A., Richard, R., Westerhoff, P., & Boyer, T. H. (2021). Evaluation of microbial and physical-chemical water quality parameters in a Platinum LEED building after the extended COVID-19 shutdown period [Poster]. Biodesign Fusion 2021, ASU, Tempe, AZ.
Miller, J., & McDaniel, T. (2021). Social Robotics to Address Isolation and Depression Among the Aging During and After COVID-19 [Poster]. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S. (eds) HCI International 2021 – Posters. HCII 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1420. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78642-7_22
Hamilton, K. A. (2023, June 16). Integrating mechanistic and data-driven approaches for reducing drinking water pathogen risks in the built environment [Invited Lecture]. American Society of Microbiology (ASM) Microbe Session: Impact of Re-aerosolization on the Transmission of Infectious Diseases in the Built Environment, Houston, Texas.
Hamilton, K. A., Joshi, S., Heida, A., Richard, R., Mondal, I., & Boyer, T. H. (2023, June 4). Toward a proactive approach for tackling Legionella control and risks in the built environment [Invited Lecture]. International Water Association 21st Symposium on Health-related Water Microbiology, Darwin Australia.
Hamilton, K. A., Joshi, S., Hogue, D., Richard, R., Mondal, I., Kotta, V., Cahill, M., Call, K., Johnson, E., Brown, J. R., & Boyer, T. H. (3023, June 20). Understanding, forecasting, and managing Legionella and holistic water quality risks in the built environment: Towards proactive approaches [Invited Lecture]. The Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP), Northeastern University in Boston, MA.
Hamilton, K. A., & Mraz, A. (2023, November 12). A Multi-Pronged approach to Reducing Legionella Risks [Invited Lecture]. Legionella in the Built Environment: Emerging research, practices, and policies: American Public Health Association (APHA), Atlanta, Ga.
Hoover, C. (2024, March 24). Entering ConPlast in the ACI Spring 2024 Eco Concrete Competition [Product Competition]. ACI Spring 2024 Eco Concrete Competition, New Orleans, LA.
Park, Y. (2023, August 31). Growth Responses of Hydroponic Vegetable Transplants to Nutrient Solution Concentrations Made with Food Waste Liquid Anaerobic Digestate [Invited Lecture]. 2023 American Society of Horticultural Sciences Annual Conference, Orlando, FL.
Soman, S., Fini, E., & Hoover, C. (2023, June 11). Size effects of composite cement and functionalized plastic beams: towards increased ductility and energy absorption [Invited Presentation]. https://icf15.gatech.edu/wp-content/uploads/wpforms/15-49a16528d8ee19b9952d40c7c036ea38/ICF2023-9b2154d974f6f4bf0471b1a579c1db15.pd

Intellectual Property

U.S. Patent Application #16/690820: Photoresponsive Polymer-coated Optical Fibers for Water Treatment, Inventors: Paul K. Westerhoff, Shahnawaz Sinha, Juan Noveron
U.S. Patent Application #63/082745 September 24, 2021: Oil-Treated Plastic for Concrete, Inventors: Elham Fini, Marvin Burton and Christian Hoover
Invention Disclosure: Photoresponsive Polymer-Coated Optical Fibers for Chemical-free Water Treatment, Paul Westerhoff, Shahnawaz Sinha, Juan C. Noveron (SI #M19-053P)
Invention Disclosure: Photoresponsive Polymer-Coated Optical Fibers in Tackling Climate Change by Removing Carbon Dioxide from the Air, Harsheen Kaur Rajput, Paul Westerhoff.

Publications

Book Chapter

Miller, J., & McDaniel, T. (2021a). Socially Assistive Robots for Storytelling and Other Activities to Support Aging in Place. In T. McDaniel & X. Liu (Eds.), Multimedia for Accessible Human Computer Interfaces (pp. 145–172). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70716-3_6

Ph.D. Dissertations

Miller, J. (2022). “Can I Consider You My Friend?” Moving Beyond One-Sided Conversation in Social Robotics [Dissertation, Arizona State University]. https://keep.lib.asu.edu/items/171933
Richard, R. (2021). Understanding the Impacts of Building Design and Use on Potable Water Quality Through Enhanced Monitoring [Dissertation, Arizona State University]. chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://keep.lib.asu.edu/_flysystem/fedora/c7/Richard_asu_0010E_21162.pdf

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Aden, K., & Boyer, T. H. (2022). Shift to remote learning degrades water quality in buildings. AWWA Water Science, 4(6), e1316. https://doi.org/10.1002/aws2.1316
Batur, I., Markolf, S. A., Chester, M. V., Middel, A., Hondula, D., & Vanos, J. (2022). Street-level heat and air pollution exposure informed by mobile sensing. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 113, 103535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2022.103535
Dowdell, K. S., Greenwald, H. D., Joshi, S., Grimard-Conea, M., Pitell, S., Song, Y., Ley, C., Kennedy, L. C., Vosloo, S., Huo, L., Haig, S.-J., Hamilton, K. A., Nelson, K. L., Pinto, A., Prévost, M., Proctor, C. R., Raskin, L. M., Whelton, A. J., Garner, E., … Rhoads, W. J. (2022). Legionella pneumophila occurrence in reduced-occupancy buildings in 11 cities during the COVID-19 pandemic (p. 2022.06.28.22277022). medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.28.22277022
Joshi, S., Richard, R., Levya, C., Harrison, J. C., Saetta, D., Sharma, N., Crane, L., Mushro, N., Dieter, L., Morgan, G. V., Heida, A., Welco, B., Boyer, T. H., Westerhoff, P., & Hamilton, K. A. (2023). Pinpointing drivers of widespread colonization of Legionella pneumophila in a green building: Roles of water softener system, expansion tank, and reduced occupancy. Frontiers in Water, 4. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frwa.2022.966223
Liu, B., Brown, J. R., Zeng, C., Rajput, H., McDonough, R. K., Westerhoff, P., & Long, T. E. (2023). Spiropyran-containing water-soluble and photoreversible copolymers. Polymer, 272, 125827. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2023.125827
Miller, J. (2022). Social Robots: The Friend of the Future or Mechanical Mistake? IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 41(2), 47–48. https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2022.3173311
Miller, J., Bernstein, M., & McDaniel, T. (2021). Next Steps for Social Robotics in an Aging World. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 40(3), 21–23. https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2021.3101931
Miller, J., & McDaniel, T. (2022). I enjoyed the chance to meet you and I will always remember you: Healthy Older Adults’ Conversations with Misty the Robot. Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 914–918. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9889523
Miller, J., McDaniel, T., & Bernstein, M. J. (2020). Aging in Smart Environments for Independence. 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS), 115–123. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462211
Ries, J., Chen, Z., & Park, Y. (2023). Potential Applications of Food-Waste-Based Anaerobic Digestate for Sustainable Crop Production Practice. Sustainability, 15(11), Article 11. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15118520
Czerniaeski, T. (2023). Machine learning based point cloud processing of city-scale lidar laser scan data: Quantifying motor traffic proximity and exposure risk of bicyclists on travel routes. [In Preparation; to be submitted 2023]
Hogue, D., Mondal, I., Richard, R., Boyer, T. H., & Hamilton, K. A. (2023). Impacts of error propagation in machine learning for predicting premise plumbing water quality. [In Preparation: Invited submission to Water Research]
Joshi, S., Hogue, D., Richard, R., Brown, J. R., Cahill, M., Kotta, V., Butzine, N., Al’fajari, J., Voth-Gaeddert, L., Boyer, T. H., & Hamilton, K. A. (2023). Optimizing water quality in buildings: Impact of three interventions on holistic water quality in a green building and intervention testing literature synthesis. [In Preparation: to be submitted to Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology]
Rajput, H., Zeng, C., Brown, J. R., Liu, B., Long, T. E., & Westerhoff, P. (2023). Metal-ion Binding on Water-soluble Spiropyran-containing Copolymers. [In Preparation: to be submitted June 2023]
Soman, S., Fini, E., & Hoover, C. (2023). Enhancing Ductility of Cement Beams with Functionalized Waste Polyethylene. [In Preparation: to be submitted to Composite Part B
Soman, S., Fini, E., & Hoover, C. (2023). Investigating the Mechanical Properties of Cementitious Composites with Functionalized Waste Polyethylene Terephthalate. [In Preparation: to be submitted to Construction and Building Materials]
Soman, S., Hung, A., Mardambek, K., Fini, E., & Hoover, C. (2023). Role of Functionalized Polypropylene on Chemo-Mechanics of Ductility-Enhanced Cement Beams. [In Preparation: to be submitted to ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering]

Liu, B.; Brown, J. R.; Zeng, C.; Rajput, H.; McDonough, R. K.; Westerhoff, P.; “Long, T. E., Spiropyran-containing water-soluble and photoreversible copolymers”, Polymer 272, 125827 (2023) https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii
“Pinpointing drivers of widespread colonization of Legionella pneumophila in a green building: Roles of water softener system, expansion tank, and reduced occupancy”, Joshi Sayalee, Richard Rain, Levya Carlos, Harrison Joanna Ciol, Saetta Daniella, Sharma Naushita, Crane Lucas, Mushro Noelle, Dieter Lucien, Morgan Grace V., Heida Ashley, Welco Bennett, Boyer Treavor H., Westerhoff Paul, Hamilton Kerry A.; Front. Water, 05 January 2023. https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2022.966223
“I enjoyed the chance to meet you and I will always remember you: Healthy Older Adults’ Conversations with Misty the Robot”, Jordan Miller and Troy McDaniel, Human-Robot Interaction Conference Late-Breaking Work. 2022. In press.
“Social Robots: The friend of future or mechanical mistake?”, Jordan Miller, IEEE Transactions on Society Artificial Intelligence for Equity. 2022. In press.
“Socially Assistive Robots for Storytelling and Other Activities to Support Aging in Place”, Jordan Miller and Troy McDaniel, contributed chapter in Multimedia for Accessible Human Computer Interfaces. Springer, Cham, 2021, pp. 145-172.
“Next Steps for Social Robotics in an Aging World”, Jordan Miller, Michael Bernstein, and Troy McDaniel, IEEE Technology and Society Magazine 40.3 (2021): 21-23.
“Social Robotics to Address Isolation and Depression Among the Aging During and After COVID-19”, Jordan Miller and Troy McDaniel, In: Stephanidis C., Antona M., Ntoa S. (eds.) HCI International 2021 – Posters. HCII 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1420. Springer, Cham, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78642-7_22
“Aging in Smart Environments for Independence”, Jordan Miller, Troy McDaniel, and Michael J. Bernstein, 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS). IEEE, 2020. doi: 10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462211