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Overview

Burcin Becerik-Gerber is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering with a focus on Building and Construction, Social Psychology, Ocean Engineering, Speech and Hearing, and Radiological and Ultrasound Technology as subfields.

Their research topics include Building Energy and Comfort Optimization, Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics, Noise Effects and Management, Occupational Health and Safety Research, Facilities and Workplace Management, Human-Automation Interaction and Safety, and BIM and Construction Integration.

They have published multiple papers in prominent venues. Frequent publication venues include Building and Environment and Advanced Engineering Informatics, each with eight publications, as well as Safety Science, Scientific Reports, and ASME Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities with three publications each.

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Burcin Becerik-Gerber are Gale Lucas, Shawn C. Roll, Mohamad Awada, Runhe Zhu, and Ruying Liu.

Recent papers include:

  • Impacts of Working From Home During COVID-19 Pandemic on Physical and Mental Well-Being of Office Workstation Users, 2020, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • Ten questions concerning occupant health in buildings during normal operations and extreme events including the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020, Building and Environment
  • Working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic: Impact on office worker productivity and work experience, 2021, Work
  • Effectiveness of VR-based training on improving construction workers' knowledge, skills, and safety behavior in robotic teleoperation, 2021, Advanced Engineering Informatics
  • Do people follow the crowd in building emergency evacuation? A cross-cultural immersive virtual reality-based study, 2020, Advanced Engineering Informatics

Best Publications

  • Application Areas and Data Requirements for BIM-Enabled Facilities Management

    Burcin Becerik-Gerber;Farrokh Jazizadeh;Nan Li;Gulben Calis

  • Impacts of Working from Home during COVID-19 Pandemic on Physical and Mental Well-Being of Office Workstation Users.

    Yijing Xiao;Burcin Becerik-Gerber;Gale Lucas;Shawn C. Roll

  • Understanding Construction Industry Experience and Attitudes toward Integrated Project Delivery

    David C. Kent;Burcin Becerik-Gerber

  • Coordinating occupant behavior for building energy and comfort management using multi-agent systems

    Laura Klein;Jun Young Kwak;Geoffrey Kavulya;Farrokh Jazizadeh

  • Monitoring fatigue in construction workers using physiological measurements

    Ashrant Aryal;Ali Ghahramani;Burcin Becerik-Gerber

  • Measuring and monitoring occupancy with an RFID based system for demand-driven HVAC operations

    Nan Li;Gulben Calis;Burcin Becerik-Gerber

  • Immersive virtual environments versus physical built environments: A benchmarking study for building design and user-built environment explorations

    Arsalan Heydarian;Joao P. Carneiro;David Gerber;Burcin Becerik-Gerber

  • THE PACE OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING, AND CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION: INTEGRATING RECENT TRENDS INTO THE CURRICULA

    Burcin Becerik-Gerber;David Jason Gerber;Kihong Ku

  • Building Information Modeling in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction: Emerging Research Directions and Trends

    Burcin Becerik-Gerber;Karen Kensek

  • THE PERCEIVED VALUE OF BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING IN THE U.S. BUILDING INDUSTRY

    Burcin Becerik-Gerber;Samara Rice

  • Transitioning to Integrated Project Delivery: Potential barriers and lessons learned

    Reza Ghassemi;Burcin Becerik-Gerber

  • Imaged-based verification of as-built documentation of operational buildings

    Laura Klein;Nan Li;Burcin Becerik-Gerber

  • Performance-based evaluation of RFID-based indoor location sensing solutions for the built environment

    Nan Li;Burcin Becerik-Gerber

  • A study on student perceptions of higher education classrooms: Impact of classroom attributes on student satisfaction and performance

    Zheng Yang;Burcin Becerik-Gerber;Laura Mino

  • Infrared thermography of human face for monitoring thermoregulation performance and estimating personal thermal comfort

    Ali Ghahramani;Guillermo Castro;Burcin Becerik-Gerber;Xinran Yu

  • User-led decentralized thermal comfort driven HVAC operations for improved efficiency in office buildings

    Farrokh Jazizadeh;Ali Ghahramani;Burcin Becerik-Gerber;Tatiana Kichkaylo

  • A BIM centered indoor localization algorithm to support building fire emergency response operations

    Nan Li;Burcin Becerik-Gerber;Bhaskar Krishnamachari;Lucio Soibelman

  • Ten questions concerning occupant health in buildings during normal operations and extreme events including the COVID-19 pandemic

    Mohamad Awada;Burcin Becerik-Gerber;Simi Hoque;Zheng O'Neill

  • Energy savings from temperature setpoints and deadband: Quantifying the influence of building and system properties on savings

    Ali Ghahramani;Kenan Zhang;Kanu Dutta;Zheng Yang

  • An online learning approach for quantifying personalized thermal comfort via adaptive stochastic modeling

    Ali Ghahramani;Chao Tang;Burcin Becerik-Gerber

  • Human-Building Interaction Framework for Personalized Thermal Comfort-Driven Systems in Office Buildings

    Farrokh Jazizadeh;Ali Ghahramani;Burcin Becerik-Gerber;Tatiana Kichkaylo

Frequent Co-Authors

Lucio Soibelman
Lucio Soibelman University of Southern California
Wendy Wood
Wendy Wood University of Southern California
Ioannis Brilakis
Ioannis Brilakis University of Cambridge
Milind Tambe
Milind Tambe Harvard University
Bhaskar Krishnamachari
Bhaskar Krishnamachari University of Southern California
Sami F. Masri
Sami F. Masri University of Southern California
SangHyun Lee
SangHyun Lee University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jonathan Gratch
Jonathan Gratch University of Southern California
David V. Pynadath
David V. Pynadath University of Southern California
Teresa Wu
Teresa Wu Arizona State University

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