Bio

Ying Hua is Associate Professor in Design and Environment Analysis at Cornell University. Her fields of research include methodology for post-occupancy evaluation (POE) of built environments, impact of workplace on behavioral and organizational outcomes, and strategies for engaging and motivating multiple stakeholders in sustainable building practice and in resilience building efforts. It is her goal to inform the design, delivery, operation and management, and re-engineering of buildings and building sector policy-making to enhance the quality of built environments, support the health and performance of their occupants, as well as mitigate the building sector’s impact on global climate change. Hua obtained her PhD in Building Performance & Diagnostics at Carnegie Mellon University, and received her MEng and BArch from Zhejiang University in China.