Kushagra Varma (A 2024)

(he/him)

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About

Kushagra Varma obtained his PhD in Architecture-Engineering-Construction Management (AECM) in 2024. In spring 2021, he joined Prof. Erica Cochran Hameen’s research group in the School of Architecture (SOA) and was awarded the P.J. Dick Incorporated AECM Fellowship. His research focuses on developing a 4D urban building performance data visualization and benchmarking tool to share benchmarking data and enable building stakeholders to make appropriate retrofits to improve the environmental performance of their buildings. His research involves analysis of urban buildings benchmarking data, developing algorithms to visualize the information on a web-based platform, creating and integrating an intelligent retrofit recommendation generator, and providing energy reduction and decarbonization pathways for the future. Kushagra is now a professor in the School of Management at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.

Kushagra is originally from Indore, India. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) degree from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT) in Bhopal, India, and a Master of Science in Construction Management from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. Before joining CMU, he worked as a lecturer in the Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering (CEOE) Department at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he taught multiple graduate construction engineering and management courses.