Professor
Mehlika Inanici is a Professor and the Director of the Design Technology track of the Master of Science program in Architecture at the University of Washington, Department of Architecture.
The focus of her research is broadly defined as Building Performance Simulation. A large body of her research centers on developing and utilizing computational (day)lighting analysis tools, techniques, and metrics that can facilitate occupant comfort, satisfaction, health, and productivity improvements, in conjunction with significant energy savings. Dr. Inanici has authored and co-authored highly influential papers on the use of high dynamic range (HDR) photography to measure and evaluate existing environments and to conduct psychophysical studies on visual comfort and visual preference. Her work on lighting measurements with HDR photography was selected as one of the “25 classic papers” in the 50-year history of the Journal of Lighting Research and Technology (2018) among the 2048 papers published between 1969 to 2018. Some of her papers are on the most cited list in Leukos (the journal of Illuminating Engineering Society) and Lighting Research and Technology. Her research has been funded by the US Department of Energy, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the University of Washington Royalty Research Fund, UW Built Environments Innovations Collaborative Grant, and the Nuckolls Funding for Lighting Education.
Professor Inanici’s teaching focuses on graduate-level courses on building performance simulation (Arch 524 Design Technology V, Arch 582 Computational Lighting Research, and 598 Performance-Driven Design) and research methodologies (Arch 592). She supervises students from the Master of Architecture, Master of Science in Architecture, and the Ph.D. program in Built Environments.
Inanici has received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan. She is the recipient of the Taubman College Distinguished Dissertation Award (2004). She has Master of Science degrees both in Architecture (University of Michigan) and Building Science (METU), and a Bachelor of Architecture degree (METU). Previously, she worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in Berkeley California, where she received the LBNL Outstanding Performance Award (2005). She is a member of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES), the International Commission on Illumination (CIE), and the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA).