Mohammad Heidarinejad

Education

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 2014
M.Sc Architectural Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 2011
B.Sc Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 2006

Research Interests

Dr. Heidarinejad’s academic concentrations, research, and teaching interests center on building energy and environmental systems and indoor environmental quality. His major research areas include:

1. Control of building energy and environmental systems
2. 2. Building energy efficiency and sustainable built environment
3. Human exposure assessment, health risks, and impacts of air cleaning technologies
4. Understanding the heat and air flows in the built environment 

Recent Funded Research Projects:

• 2022–present: Multi-institution consortium to develop building engineering curricula, including fundamental skills in programming and data science and training in the use of modeling technologies such as EnergyPlus and Modelica, The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
• 2019–present: Air filtration to improve indoor air quality (IAQ) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) outcomes in a high-risk urban population of U.S. military veterans. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
• 2021–present: Filtration for Respiratory Exposure to wildfire Smoke from Swamp Cooler Air (FRESSCA), The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
• 2019–present: Undergraduate building science laboratories, ASHRAE
• 2022-present: A thermal battery based on phase change materials for building energy efficiency, Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER).<.li>
• 2022-present: A thermal battery based on phase change materials for building energy efficiency, Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER).
• 2020-2022: Interior insulated Parata shades, ComEd Emerging Technologies
• 2018-present: Performance Optimization of Custom Battery-Powered Radiator Controls and Low-Cost Steam Trap Monitoring System, Franklin Energy Services, LLC.
• 2022-present: A thermal battery based on phase change materials for building energy efficiency, Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER).
• 2020-2022: Interior insulated Parata shades, ComEd Emerging Technologies
• 2019-2022: Improving control sequences in existing buildings using virtual and physical testbeds, ASHRAE.
• 2020-2021: An incremental design approach for culture preservation and energy conservation of historic buildings using personal comfort systems, Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER).
• 2020-2021: An incremental design approach for culture preservation and energy conservation of historic buildings using personal comfort systems, Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER).

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

• American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
• American Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI)
• International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ)
• International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA)
• American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)

Awards

• Sigma Xi/Illinois Tech Awards for Excellence in Research, Junior Faculty award, 2024
• The 2022 ASHRAE Technical Paper Award, 2022
• IBPSA-USA Emerging Contributor, 2022
• Illinois Green’s 2022 Outstanding Volunteer
• The Michael J. Graff Award for Innovation in Teaching, 2022
• The 2022 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research at the Assistant Professor level, 2022
• The 2022 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Advising, 2022
• ASHRAE New Investigator Award, 2019
• ASHRAE Graduate Grant In Aid, 2009

Publications

A complete list of publications is available through Google Scholar

Selected Publications:

• Faramarzi, A., Mirjalili, S.A., Heidarinejad, M., Binary equilibrium optimizer: Theory and application in building optimal control problems, Energy and Buildings 277 (2022), 112503.
• Salimian Rizi B. and Heidarinejad M., Analysis of hydronic heating and cooling systems in commercial buildings using CBECS microdata, Journal of Architectural Engineering 28 (2022).
• Faramarzi, A., Stephens, B., Heidarinejad, and M., Optimal control of a switchable ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) cushion for building façades, Solar Energy 218 (2021), Pages 180-194.
• Zeng, Y., Manwatkar, P., Laguerre, A., Beke, M., Kang, I., Ali, A., Farmer, D., Gall, E., Heidarinejad, M., Stephens, and B., Evaluating a commercially available in-duct bipolar ionization device for pollutant removal and potential byproduct formation, Building and Environment 195 (2021), 107750.
• Faramarzi, A., Heidarinejad, M., Stephens, B., Mirjalili S.A., Equilibrium optimizer: A novel optimization algorithm, Knowledge-Based Systems 191 (2020), 105190.
• Faramarzi, A., Heidarinejad, Mirjalili S.A., Gandomi, A.H., Marine Predators Algorithm: A nature-inspired metaheuristic, Expert Systems with Applications, 152 (2020), 113377.
• Austin, M., Delgoshaei, P., Coelho, M., and Heidarinejad, M., Architecting smart city digital twins: combined semantic model and machine learning approach, Journal of Management in Engineering 36 (2020).
• Faramarzi, A., Lee, J., Stephens, B., and Heidarinejad, and M., Assessing ventilation control strategies in underground parking garages, Building Simulation, 2020.
• Zhu, S., Jenkins, S., Addo, K., Heidarinejad, M., Romo, S.A., Layne, A., Ehizibolo, J., Dalgo, D., Mattise, N.W., Hong, F., Adenaiye, O.O., de Mesquita, P.J.B., Albert, B.J., Washington-Lewis, R., German, J., Tai, S.H.S, Youssefi, S., Milton, D.K., Srebric, J., Ventilation and laboratory confirmed acute respiratory infection (ARI) rates in college residence halls in College Park, Maryland, Environmental International 137 (2020) 105537.
• Li, T., Zhai, Y., He, S., Gan., W., Wei, Z., Heidarinejad, M., Dalgo, D., Mi, R., Zhao, Z., Song, J., Dai, J., Chen, C., Aili, A., Vellore, A., Martini, A., Yang, R., Srebric, J., Yin, X., and Hu, and L., A radiative cooling structural material, Science 364 (2019), 6442, 760-763.
• Heidarinejad, M., Dalgo, D., Mattise, N., Srebric, and J., Personalized cooling as an energy efficiency technology for city footprint reduction, Journal of Cleaner Production 171 (2018) 491-505.
• Heidarinejad, M., Dahlhausen, M., Mattise, N., Sharma, K., Benne, K., Mcamber, D., Brackney, L., and Srebric, and J., Demonstration of reduced-order urban scale building energy models, Energy and Buildings 156 (2017) 17–28.
• Heidarinejad, M., Cedeño-Laurent, J.G., Wentz, J.R., Rekstad, N.M., Spengler, J.D., and Srebric, and J. A framework to classify campus buildings based on their energy patterns in support of on-site data collection and building energy simulation modeling, Energy Conversion and Management 144 (2017), 164-180.

Expertise

Building science, multi-scale modeling of the built environment, building energy and environmental systems, energy efficient buildings, building energy simulations, computational fluid dynamics, building control, optimization, digital twins, and sustainable and smart cities.