Meet The Team
Lab Director
Dr. Ehsan Kamel
My name is Ehsan Kamel, director of the Energy and Green Technologies Laboratory (EnTech Lab) at New York Institute of Technology (NYIT). I’m an assistant professor in the Department of Energy Management at the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences (CoECS). I obtained my Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 2017, and my research is focused on building energy modeling (BEM), the application of building information modeling (BIM) in BEM, energy-smart homes, and building energy retrofit. I also have a background in building science, building enclosure design, and seismic engineering, with an emphasis on the seismic behavior of reinforced lightweight concrete.
Collaborators
Dr. Shaya Sheikh
Professor Shaya Sheikh
obtained his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 2013. He collaborates with the EnTech Lab on different research projects in the area of data-driven energy models and data mining for buildings energy-related data.
Dr. Aydin Farajidavar
Aydin Farajidavar is the director of Integrated Medical Systems Laboratory and an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYIT. He is collaborating with the EnTech Lab on developing wireless multi-functional sensors for collecting environmental data.
Students
Aayushi Ganatra
Aayushi Ganatra works as a Software Engineer at the EnTech Lab, implementing a Shell Script workflow with various control parameters while also managing data wrangling operations to facilitate accurate analysis for data-driven decision making.
Ali Al Mashaqbeh
Ali Al Mashaqbeh is working on an energy audit report for the Long Island campus buildings.
Jayasri Tudi
As a data scientist at EnTech Lab, Jayasri extracts the energy consumption data of buildings and utilizes it to generate valuable insights. Ultimately creating suitable models for visualization.
Aishwarya Kanakamedala
Aishwarya Kanakamedala is a graduate student in Data Science. She works on data analyzing and data visualization for the output models obtained by simulations.
Godhuli De
Godhuli De is a graduate student majoring in Computer Science. As a research assistant, she is working on hardware implementations to collect various energy consumption data of buildings and use these data for further processing and decision-making.
Alumni
Zainab Mukadam
Zainab Mukadam is a 1st year graduate student in the Energy Management program at NYIT. She is currently conducting an Energy Audit of NYIT buildings on the Old Westbury campus toprovide energy efficient solutions.
Dhruvi Sheth
Dhruvi Sheth is a 1st year graduate student in the Energy Management program at NYIT. She is currently working on collecting and reporting data on the HVAC systems of the Old Westbury campus buildings.
Tariq Khan
Tariq Khan is an intern with a Masters in Environmental Technology and Sustainability. He is currently working on the Energy Management audit Project focused on the HVAC systems that are installed in the Engineering and Health Sciences Buildings.
Yogesh Chavan
Yogesh Chavan is a Master’s student in Computer Science at NYIT. He is responsible for the development of the Internet of Things network and of connecting different types of devices or sensors to IoT cloud servers.
Divyang Patel
Divyang Patel is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science at NY Tech. He is responsible for Developing the Digital Twins Project model using Ravit and Visual Studio.
Kathia Teran
Kathia is pursuing a M.S. degree in Computer Science at NYIT. She is the website developer of the new EnTech Lab site, and she works with the data science team on machine learning model development.
Anthony San Jose
Anthony San Jose is a data science graduate student. His research at EnTech Lab focuses on data collecting and analyzing the existing HVAC system at the NYIT Old Westbury campus to improve its energy consumption.
Amma Calhoun
Amma Calhoun is an Environmental Technology and Sustainability graduate student at NYIT. She is working on the energy analysis of buildings through Revit for the EnTech Lab.
Prakash Bajgain
Prakash majors in Mechanical Engineering - Aerospace. He joined EnTech Lab as a Research Assistant for Energy Building Modulation. He was on ‘Forbes 30 under 30’ in 2018 in ‘Green Tech & Entrepreneurship’.
Shiva Nekooei
Shiva Nekooei is pursuing a M.S. degree in Energy Management at NYIT. She works on Variable Refrigerant Flow system optimization by sensitivity analysis method and building energy modelling.
Kajal Sheth
Kajal Sheth is a graduate student in Energy Management. She works on a solar module emulator to design a PV system. She is also writing a research paper on Building and Energy policies for the EnTech Lab.
O'neil K. Bruno
KB is an international Student from the island paradise of Dominica who is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Energy Management at NYIT. His research is centered around generating building energy models.
Aishwarya Sharma
Aishwarya Sharma has a B.S. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering. She is currently working on developing a model of an energy house using her skills in Machine Learning.
Ayodeji Katibi
I hold a master’s degree in Information Systems, and currently pursuing a second master’s degree in Energy Management. I worked on Energy Modelling of a smart house.
Daniel Hart
My name is Dan Hart and I’m a high school student. I helped out in the EnTech Lab on building energy modeling projects by collecting data.
Huanfang G
Huanfang Gu is a Master’s candidate in Energy Management. He worked at EnTech Lab on a project focused on HVAC scheduling techniques.
Nadi AbuMahfouz
Nadi AbuMahfouz's project was focused on developing wireless devices to monitor temperature, humidity, radiations, and airspeed from different locations inside a room and send it wirelessly to the server.
Naveen James
Naveen Jose James has a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering. He worked on energy conservation and modeling projects focused on the HVAC systems for the Old Westbury campus buildings.
Nick Tulegenov
My name is Nurbolat Tulegenov. I graduated from NYIT in 2016 with a B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. The project I worked on at was centralizing the control over different smart devices.
Alina Iuldasheva
Alina Iuldasheva received her M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Magnitogorsk State Technical University. Her research at EnTech Lab was focused on microgrids and demand response systems.
Yumin Qiu
Yumin Qiu majors in M.B.A CPA Track in the School of Management at NYIT. Her project at the EnTech lab was focused on data collection, analysis, and visualization, which is obtained from sensors.
Denise
Denise is working with students and graduates of the Clean Energy Academy to help them package themselves and their documents in the most professional manner, so that they can find gainful employment in the Clean Energy Sector.
Surbhi Hirawat
Surbhi Hirawat is working on the Data Science project where she mines and analyses data from the output simulation files, and plots meaningful graphs to show significant trends.