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Mehlika Inanici is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington, Department of Architecture. She is the director of the Master of Science Program (computing track) and Design Machine Group. Mehlika has received her Ph.D. degree (2004) from the University of Michigan. She has Master of Science degrees both in Architecture (2001) and Building Science (1996), and she is a registered architect since 1993. Before joining UW in 2005, she had worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, and at METU in Ankara, Turkey.
The focus of her research is broadly defined as Building Performance Simulation, Computational Lighting Design and Analysis, Computer Graphics (Physically-based Renderings), and Computational Photography (High Dynamic Range Imaging). A large body of her research centers on developing and utilizing computer-based lighting analysis techniques and metrics that can facilitate occupant satisfaction and productivity improvements, in conjunction with significant energy savings. The underlying presumption in her research and teaching is that analytical approaches employed throughout the design processes help architects to envision the performance of their designs, accelerate and improve the design decisions, and reduce the uncertainty of the outcome.
Mehlika is a member of Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA), International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) and Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA). She received the Taubman College Distinguished Dissertation Award in 2004 and LBNL Outstanding Performance Award in 2005. She has published and presented her research in international journals and conferences, including Lighting Research and Technology, Luekos, Building and Environment, IBPSA, and CIE. Her research has been funded by US department of Energy, Nuckolls Funding for Lighting Education, and University of Washington Royalty Research Fund.
Prospective students interested in working in the following areas can contact Prof. Inanici and indicate their areas of interest:
Computational Lighting Design and Analysis
High Dynamic Range Photography
Building Performance Simulation
Physically-based Rendering
Image Processing
Further information is available at her website at http://faculty.washington.edu/inanici/
Projects
Applied Research Consortium • An Analysis of Urban Form and Canyon For Performative Daylighting Design • Circadian Lighting • GlareShade • hdrscope • TiMBA • RadLum • Simulation Based Design • HDR • Directionality of Light • Image Based Rendering
Publications
- Measuring circadian lighting through high dynamic range photography (2018) [Papers]
- An investigation of the daylighting simulation techniques and sky modeling practices for occupant centric evaluations (2017) [Papers]
- GlareShade: a visual comfort-based approach to occupant-centric shading systems (2015) [Papers]
- Evaluating a New Suite of Luminance-Based Design Metrics for Predicting Human Visual Comfort in Offices with Daylight (2015) [Papers]
- Dynamic Daylighting Simulations from Static High Dynamic Range Imagery Using Extrapolation and Daylight Coefficient Methodologies (2013) [Papers]
- hdrscope: High Dynamic Range Image Processing Toolkit for Lighting Simulations and Analysis (2013) [Papers]
- Depth Perception in Real and Pictorial Spaces: A Computational Framework to Represent and Simulate the Built Environment (2009) [Papers]
- Applications of Image based Rendering in Lighting Simulation: Development and Evaluation of Image based Sky Models (2009) [Papers]
- Image Based Rendering: Using High Dynamic Range Photographs to Light Architectural Scenes (2008) [Papers]
- Computational Approach for Determining the Directionality of Light: Directional to Diffuse Ratio (2007) [Papers]
- Evaluation of high dynamic range photography as a luminance data acquisition system (2006) [Papers]
- The Virtual Lighting Laboratory: Per-pixel Luminance Data Analysis (2006) [Papers]
- Per-pixel Data Acquisition with High Dynamic Range Photography (2005) [Papers]
- Transformation of High Dynamic Range Images into Virtual Lighting Laboratories (2003) [Papers]
Contact Information
- E-mail Address: inanici@uw.edu