Panagiota Karava is the Jack and Kay Hockema Professor in Civil Engineering at Purdue and is affiliated with both Ray W. Herrick Laboratories and the Center for High Performance Buildings (CHPB). Dr. Karava’s research interests are broadly related to high performance buildings, smart building technology, human-building interactions, and smart and connected energy-aware residential communities. She has extensive expertise on sociotechnical modeling approaches and their integration into software infrastructure and has led the development of smart and connected technology and its successful deployment in more than 100 households in different locations across Indiana.