Jovan Pantelic

In his scientific career, Jovan worked on different HVAC system and air quality problems. The most important scientific contributions he made in the field are: investigating modes of Influenza transmission, quantifying infected person infectious aerosol release, quantifying the impact of ventilation supply rates and airflow patterns on infectious disease transmission risk, detection of occupant activities in building using environmental sensing signatures, dehumidification with membrane-based liquid desiccant systems. Jovan worked on advanced air delivery strategies and in the process develop a novel air terminal device.

More recently Jovan started working on distributed sensing networks, ubiquitous environmental sensing, continuous monitoring and detection of occupant activities indoors using sensing. Jovan recently published work on indoor environmental quality evaluation where he used a combination of occupant survey responses and the Internet of Things sensing to combine subjective perception and objective measurement of environmental conditions. The study also demonstrated the significant impact of increased ventilation rates (low CO2 values) on air quality perception of building occupants. ASHRAE recently invited Jovan to contribute an article on continuous monitoring and use of IoT technologies for building evaluation for a wider audience of HVAC engineers.

Jovan’s recent work on exposure to metabolic CO2 and mitigation received a lot of industry interest.