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Elie
Bou-Zeid

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Research interests: Environmental flows and turbulence, energy models for cities and buildings, boundary-layer meteorology, surface-atmosphere interactions; hydrometeorology; large-eddy simulation; sensor networks

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Civil and Environmental Engineering

Fundamental insights into the built and natural environments, and interactions between the two