Professor Jin Wen Awarded Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant

Professor Jin Wen has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant to Sweden. The Fulbright Program, which aims to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries, is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government. As a grantee, Professor Wen will join the ranks of distinguished participants in the Program. Fulbright alumni include 59 Nobel Laureates, 84 Pulitzer Prize winners, 72 MacArthur Fellows, 16 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients, and thousands of leaders across the private, public, and non-profit sectors.

Professor Wen's project will establish a partnership between Drexel's Building Science and Engineering Group and KTH Royal Institute of Technology's Division of Building Services and Energy Systems, to develop a suite of highly-automated, big-data-driven, and human-centered data analytics algorithms for engineers and technicians working in the building service industry (a.k.a. building doctors). The project focuses on the increasingly critical role of big data and machine intelligence across infrastructural systems with respect to its impact on behavioral integration of building doctors in the decision-making process.