Ming Hu

Ming Hu is associate dean for research, scholarship, and creative work, associate professor at the School of Architecture, and affiliated faculty at the College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses on how to decarbonize the built environment through net zero impact and healthy building design and understanding how (smart) technologies might be employed to reduce the impact from built environment to ecosystem.

Hu has authored three books, including Green Building Costs: The Affordability of Sustainable Design (Routledge, 2023), Smart Technologies and Design for Healthy Built Environments (Springer, 2020), and Net Zero Building: Predicted and Unintended Consequences (Routledge, 2019). Her more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and conference proceeding papers have appeared in such journals as Building and Environment, Energy and Buildings, Sustainable Cities and Societies and the Science Advance. Hu’s  works also have been selected as part of the Sustainability Exhibit at the 2017 United Nations Climate Change (COP23). She serves as the editor for Journal of Green Building and Journal of Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy.

Hu serves on the national board of Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC). She has been awarded research grants from the National Science Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The American Institute of Architects, and others.