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Holly Samuelson edit

Holly Samuelson (née Wailowski) is a licensed Architect [1] and researcher currently serving as an Associate Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge Massachusetts. Her research focuses on the impact of building design on human and environmental health.

Academic Career edit

Dr. Samuelson earned a Doctor of Design in 2013 and her Master of Design in 2009 from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD), where she was awarded the Gerald M. McCue Medal[2] in 2009. She also holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University, where she received the Henry Adams Medal (now the Medal for Academic Excellence[3]) from the American Institute of Architects[4]. Dr. Samuelson served as the Co-Head for the Master of Design; Energy and Environment program[5][6] from 2017 to 2022 and has held t the position as Associate Professor of Architecture at the GSD since 2020.[7]

Professional Career edit

Dr. Samuelson practiced as an architect in the Boston area from 2000 to 2007 before transitioning to work as an she worked Sustainable Building Consultant from 2007 to 2008, advising architects, owners, and engineers on commercial building projects.

Selected Architecture Projects edit

CarMax Home Office, Richmond, VA- 270,000sf Fortune 500 corporate headquarters (with ADD Inc, now Stantec). LEEDv2.1 Silver certification. Boston Society of Architects Honor Award for Design Excellence 2006[8], Mid-Atlantic Construction Magazine – Best Office Project of 2005, US Green Building Council James River Chapter – Award of Merit, Virginia Sustainable Building Network – Best Commercial Project of 2006[9]

Art Interactive, Cambridge, MA- A 2,500sf exhibition space for interactive art in a historic Jose Luis Sert building in Cambridge, MA. Role: Lead designer, published with architecture credits in Boston Globe October 2002.[10][11]

Research and Publications edit

Dr. Samuelson has been interviewed as an expert by media outlets including The Washington Post[12], Boston Globe[13], The Wall Street Journal[14], and the BBC[15]. She has published on topics related to energy and carbon reductions in buildings, including advancing building design and operation workflows using building simulation and machine learning.  She has also published on topics related to occupant health in a changing climate, including issues of heat vulnerability in buildings. As of March 2024, Dr. Samuelson has coauthored over 40 peer review scholarly papers that can be found via her Google Scholar Profile[16]. Her design work on the CarMax Office Project has been published in the Journal of the Urban Land Institute and on the Art Interactive in The Boston Globe.

Selected Honors edit

2023-Best Paper Award, Energy and Buildings journal, co-author of journal paper selected as one of top ten papers in the past five years, 2018-2022[17][18]

2017-First Place: International Building Performance Simulation Association Student Competition,[19] faculty advisor, biennial international competition. San Francisco

2014-Outstanding Young Contributor Award [20]: International Building Performance Simulation Association USA,biennial national recognition for significant contributions to the field of building performance simulation. Atlanta, GA

2013-First Place: International Building Performance Simulation Association Student Competition [21], faculty advisor, biennial international competition. Chambéry, France

Notable Work edit

“Impact of Workplace Design on Perceived Work Performance and Well-Being: Home versus Office.” Srivastava, C., Murnane, E., Billington, S., Samuelson, H., Journal of Environmental Psychology, March 2024[22]

“Transfer learning with deep neural networks for model predictive control of HVAC and natural ventilation…,”Chen, Tong, Zheng, Samuelson, Norford, Journal of Cleaner Production, May 2020[23]

“Housing as a Critical Determinant of Heat Vulnerability and Health,” Samuelson, H., Baniassadi, A., Lin, A., Izaga Gonzalez, P., Brawley, T., Narula, T., Science of the Total Environment, February 2020[24]

“Optimal Control of HVAC and Window Systems for Natural Ventilation Through Reinforcement Learning, ”Chen, Y., Norford, L., Samuelson, H., Malkawi, A., Energy and Buildings, March 2018 (Awarded Best Paper Award, Selected as one of top ten papers in Energy and Buildings in the past five years, 2018-2022)[25]

“Parametric Energy Simulation in Early Design: High-Rise Residential Buildings in Urban Contexts, ”Samuelson, H., Claussnitzer, S., Goyal, A. Chen, Y., Romo-Castillo, A., Building & Environ., May 2016[26]

“Modeling an Existing Building in DesignBuilder/EnergyPlus: Custom vs. Default Inputs,” Wasilowski, H. [maiden name], Reinhart, C., Proceedings of Building Simulation the IBPSA International Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, July[27]

2009 Awarded Arup Engineering Best-Paper Prize for Simulation in Design[28]

References edit

  1. ^ "Massachusetts Architecture Licensure". Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  2. ^ "Prizes and Honors". 2023. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  3. ^ "Metal of Academic Excellence". American Institute of Architects. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  4. ^ "American Institute of Architects". American Institute of Architects. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  5. ^ "Master in Design Studies (MDes) in Energy and Environment in Harvard University". Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  6. ^ Fact Book 2020-2021 Harvard Graduate School of Design (PDF). Harvard GSD. 2020. p. 24.
  7. ^ "Holly Samuelson". Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  8. ^ "Honor Award for Design Excellence" (PDF). Architecture Boston. 2006 The Year in Review: 42. 2007.
  9. ^ "CarMax Home Office Receives National Green Building Designation". CarMax. 27 March 2007. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  10. ^ McQuaid, Cate (18 October 2002). "Viewers Become a Part of the Art". The Boston Globe. p. 67. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  11. ^ McQuaid, Cate (18 October 2002). "Art as Interactive Museum". The Boston Globe. p. 72. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  12. ^ Gowen, Annie; Kommenda, Niko; Ducroquet, Simon; Gupta, Anand; Loke, Atul (22 September 2024). "The Inequity of Heat". The Washington Post. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  13. ^ Ellis, Maliya (8 July 2023). "Cambridge Enacts Ambitious Building Emissions Reduction Standards". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  14. ^ "The Office Redesign Has Only Just Begun". The Wall Street Journal. 30 July 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  15. ^ Greenwood, Veronique (30 July 2019). "Why indoor Air quality matters to our bodies and our brains". BBC. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  16. ^ "Holly Wasilowski Samuelson". Google Scholar.
  17. ^ "Energy and Buildings". 28 August 2023. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  18. ^ Chen, Yujiao; Norford, Leslie K.; Samuelson, Holly W.; Malkawi, Ali (15 June 2018). "Optimal control of HVAC and window systems for natural ventilation through reinforcement learning". Every and Building. 169: 195–205. doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2018.03.051 – via Science Direct.
  19. ^ "GSD team announced first-place winner of international student energy modeling competition". Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities. 16 August 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  20. ^ "Awards". IBPSA. 21 April 2021. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  21. ^ ""GSD team announced first-place winner of international student energy modeling competition". Harvard GSD. 2013. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  22. ^ Srivastava, Charu; Murnane, Elizabeth; Billington, Sarah; Samuelson, Holly (May 2024). "Impact of workplace design on perceived work performance and well-being: Home versus office". Journal of Environmental Psychology. 95. doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102274 – via Science Direct.
  23. ^ Chen, Yujiao; Tong, Zheming; Zheng, Yang; Samuelson, Holly; Norford, Lesile (1 May 2020). "Transfer learning with deep neural networks for model predictive control of HVAC and natural ventilation in smart buildings". Journal of Cleaner Production. 254. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119866 – via Science Direct.
  24. ^ Samuelson, Holly; Baniassadi, Amir; Lin, Annie; Izaga Gonzalez, Pablo; Brawley, Thomas; Narula, Tushar (10 June 2020). ""Housing as a critical determinant of heat vulnerability and health"". Science of Total Environment. 720. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137296 – via Science Direct.
  25. ^ Chen, Yujiao; Norford, Lesile K.; Samuelson, Holly W.; Malkawi, Ali (15 June 2018). "Optimal control of HVAC and window systems for natural ventilation through reinforcement learning". Energy and Building. 169: 195–205. doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2018.03.051 – via Science Direct.
  26. ^ Samuelson, Holly; Claussnitzer, Sebastian; Goyal, Apoorv; Chen, Yujiao; Romo-Castillo, Alejandra (15 May 2016). "Parametric Energy Simulation in early design: High-Rise Residential building in urban context". Building and Environment. 101: 19–31. doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2016.02.018 – via Science Direct.
  27. ^ Wasilowski, Holly A.; Reinhart, Christoph F. (2009). "Modeling an Existing Building in DesignBuilder/ EnergyPlus: Custom vs. Default Inputs". International Building Performance Simulation Association. 11th Conference of IBPSA. Building Simulation. 11: 1252–1259 – via IBPSA.
  28. ^ "Toward Buildings that Work: Reusing Design-Phase Energy Models for Operations-Phase Improvements". Harvard GSD. 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2024.

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