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Michael Kane

Assistant Professor,  Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Research Focus

Citizen-centric controls, infrastructure automation; community resilience; grid-interactive efficient buildings; sustainability

About

Michael Kane is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University where his research and teaching focus on automation in the built environment and how people interact with automated systems. Prior to joining Northeastern, he worked as a fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Project Agency–Energy, where he identified new technology development opportunities for control of civil energy infrastructure, primarily in the areas of transportation, buildings, and distributed energy resources. In 2021 he received the NSF CAREER award.
He received the B.S. degree in architectural engineering and the M.S. degree in civil engineering from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA, in 2009 and 2009, respectively, and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in civil engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 2011 and 2014, respectively.
Dr. Kane is a member of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). He is a member of the IEEE Smart Buildings-Loads-Customer (SBLC) Systems Technical Committee. He is a Senior Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He is an Engineer in Training in the State of Pennsylvania.

 

 

 

Education

  • PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, 2014
  • MS, Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2011
  • MS, Civil Engineering, Drexel University, 2009
  • BS, Architectural Engineering, Drexel University, 2009

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Professional Affiliations

  • American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
  • American Society of Heating Refrigerating and Air conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Research Overview

Citizen-centric controls, infrastructure automation; community resilience; grid-interactive efficient buildings; sustainability

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Selected Publications

  • T. Abuimara, B.W. Hobson, H.B. Gunay, W. O’Brien, M.B. Kane, Current state and future challenges in building management: practitioner interviews and a literature review, Journal of Building Engineering, 2021.
  • Z. Afroz, B.W. Hobson, H.B. Gunay, W. O’Brien, M.B. Kane, How Occupants Affect Building Operators’ Decision-Making, ASHRAE Journal, 62(11), 2020
  • M. Schweiker, E. Ampatzi, M.S. Andargie, R.K. Andersen, E. Azar, V.M. Barthelmes, C. Berger, A. Jamrozik, M.B. Kane, et al., Review of Multi‐Domain Approaches to Indoor Environmental Perception and Behaviour, Building and Environment, 176, 2020, 106804
  • M.B. Kane, J.P. Lynch, J. Scruggs, Run-Time Efficiency of Bilinear Model Predictive Control Using Variational Methods, With Applications to Hydronic Cooling, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 24(2), 2019, 718-728
  • M.B. Kane, L.P. Jerome, J. Scruggs, Development of a Scalable Distributed Model Predictive Control System for Hydronic Networks with Bilinear and Hybrid Dynamics, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 32(5), 2018, 0401803