Ralph Muehleisen
Chief Building Scientist And Buildings Technologies And Interim Industrial Technologies Group Leader at Northwestern-Argonne Institute for Science and Engineering
Lemont, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolRalph Muehleisen is Chief Building Scientist and leader of Buildings and Interim Industrial Technologies at Argonne National Laboratory, directing research partnerships with DOE, industry, and academia to advance energy efficiency, resilience, and sustainability in the built environment. He brings 11+ years of leadership experience at the intersection of applied research and policy implementation, backed by a Ph.D. in Acoustics and dual undergraduate degrees in ECE and Physics. A licensed P.E., INCE Board Certified Noise Control Engineer, LEED AP, and Fellow of both the Acoustical Society of America and ASHRAE, he combines deep technical rigor with practical building performance solutions. Ralph plays a bridge role as Argonne’s liaison to the DOE Building Technologies Office, translating lab innovation into scalable infrastructure investments. He also mentors cross-disciplinary teams through the Northwestern-Argonne Institute for Science and Engineering, fostering next-generation research collaborations. Colleagues note his rare blend of acoustics expertise and systems-level thinking that surfaces alternative futures for buildings beyond conventional energy metrics.
11 years of coding experience
BS, ECE and Physics, BS, ECE and Physics at University of Wisconsin-MadisonPh.D., Acoustics, Ph.D., Acoustics at Penn State University
Github Skills (12)
calibration9
risk-assessment9
sensitivity9
uncertainty9
energy9
sensitivity-analysis8
bayesian8
risk-analysis8
representations8
ensembles8
meter6
audio4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Argonne-National-Laboratory/BCUS
Aug 2016 - Jul 2018
Bayesian Calibration, Uncertainty, and Sensitivity analysis for OpenStudio building energy models
Contributions:58 commits, 10 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year 10 months
sensitivity-analysisenergy-modelsrisk-assessmentrisk-analysiscalibration
Argonne-National-Laboratory/POLARIS-ISOmodel
Sep 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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