Nan (Nancy) Ma, PhD, Assoc. AIA, is an Assistant Professor of Architectural Engineering at CEAE and director of Laboratory for Healthy, Environmental, and Resilient Buildings (HERB-Lab). Her work investigates the integration of architectural, environmental, and computational knowledge to advance healthy, sustainable, and occupant-centric buildings. In pursuing this objective, her research applies multi-disciplinary simulation, experimental, and field study approaches using both objective (instrumental) and subjective measures (questionnaires, interviews). Specifically, her research interests include building performance for thermal comfort and energy efficiency, design for building occupants and behavior, IoT smart buildings and machine learning, and related indoor environmental (air) quality field studies. Ma has led multiple interdisciplinary research projects in collaboration with various fields ranging from public health, biostatistics, computer science, mechanical engineering, to pediatric psychology. She has been awarded 2021 Best Paper Awards from the highly regarded journal Building and Environment and has received research funds from Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, GAPSA - Provost Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Innovation, and Penn Research Transition Fund. Prior to joining WPI, Ma held an appointment at the University of Melbourne. She worked as a research associate at the Center for Environmental Building & Design and the Thermal Architecture Lab at Penn. Ma holds a PhD in Architecture (building technology track) from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Architecture, and a Bachelor of Environments from the University of Melbourne, Australia.