I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at NC State University.
I teach courses on research methods and quantitative and geospatial data analytics for both undergraduate and graduate students at NC State.
Read moreMy research mainly focuses on the human aspects of the energy transition. I also work on projects related to the environment and public health.
Read moreI provide expertise in data science and energy governance to support students, as well as organizations outside of academia.
Read more| July 2024 | A new preprint, "Sentiment Analysis of Solar Energy in U.S. Cities: A 10-Year Analysis Using Transformer-Based Deep Learning". |
| April 2024 | Talk on "Solar Energy Sentiment and Deployment" at NCSU Center for Environmental and Resource Economic Policy (CEnREP) Colloquia. |
| April 2024 | Talk on "Leveraging AI Tools for Social Science Energy Research" at School of Public Administration Research Round Table at the University of Nebraska Omaha. |
| Nov 2023 | A conference presentation, "Grid Resilience Index: An Online Mapping Tool Harnessing Social Capital" at Southern Economic Associations 93rd Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. |
| Aug 2023 | Awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI) Grant (Co-PI): Integration of Electric Vehicles and the Electric Grid ($750,000). |
| Jul 2023 | New article, "Spatial Distribution of Solar PV Deployment: An Application of the Region-Based Convolutional Neural Network" on EPJ Data Science. |
| Apr 2023 | New article, "Electricity peak shaving for commercial buildings using machine learning and vehicle to building (V2B) system," in Applied Energy. |
| Sep 2022 | Poster presentation, "Spatial Distribution of Solar PV Deployment: An Application of the Region-Based Convolutional Neural Network," at The Rocky Mountain Celebration of Women in Computing 2022. |
| Aug 2022 | Quoted in the article "Dulles solar farm would be the nation's largest at an airport," The Washington Post. |
| Jun 2022 | A talk on "Big Data, Public Policy, and Distributed Energy Resources" at the Institute for Regulatory Law and Economics (IRLE)-Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) workshop in Boulder. |
| Jun 2022 | A talk on "Polycentric Governance and Collective Action in Energy Transition" at the IRLE-RMI workshop in Boulder. |
| Mar 2022 | Grant awarded: "Community Microgrids for Energy Resilience and Emergency Planning" by the University of Colorado Denver Office of Research Services. |
| Feb 2022 | New article, "The Distribution of Conflict and Attention Across Energy Infrastructure," in Public Administration. |
| Feb 2022 | Talk at the 2022 IRLE workshop for graduate students, "Geospatial Data Science and Energy Research" University of Colorado Denver. |
| Jan 2022 | Dissertation mentioned in the article "Seeking Space for Solar Farms, Cities Find Room at Their Airports," New York Times. |
| Oct 2021 | Grant awarded: "Electric Vehicles (EVs) as a Tool for Energy Efficiency and Resilience" by the University of Colorado Denver CRC Faculty Interdisciplinary Fellowship. |
| Feb 2021 | New article, "Public Sentiment toward Solar Energy—Opinion Mining of Twitter Using a Transformer-Based Language Model" in Sustainability. |
| Nov 2020 | A guest talk at the seminar, "Dismantling Racism and Inequity in our Schools," in the School of Education, University of Colorado Denver. |
| Oct 2020 | Grant awarded: “Integrated Solar Energy for Sustainable, Resilient, and Equitable Communities" by the Presidential Initiative on Urban and Place-Based Research. |
| Sep 2020 | My paper, "Institutional Arrangements and Airport Solar PV," in Energy Policy, was featured in various media outlets. |
| May 2020 | A talk on "Survey Response Bias and Survey Weights" at The Schreiber Research Group. |