Titles

• Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
• Assistant Professor, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures
• Assistant Professor, School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

Biography

Dr. Pavlic has an interdisciplinary background, starting with a PhD in electrical and computer engineering, progressing through research appointments in computer science and life sciences, leading to his current joint appointment as an Assistant Professor in the School of Sustainability and the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering. His research focuses on understanding adaptive decision-making strategies in autonomous systems. To this end, his laboratory does empirical work with natural systems, such as social-insect colonies, and does engineering work building decision-making algorithms for artificial systems, such as decentralized energy management systems for the built environment. Just as the biological models provide inspiration for novel engineering solutions, the engineering problems inspire new lines of scientific inquiry about those biological systems. This bidirectional flow is facilitated by solid mathematical models of fundamental decision-making processes in common with both the natural and engineered systems. Dr. Pavlic is the Associate Director of Research for The Biomimicry Center at Arizona State University. He is also active in several professional organizations and publication venues across engineering and life sciences. Dr. Pavlic is faculty in Sustainability, Industrial Engineering, Computer Engineering, Applied Math in the Life and Social Sciences, Biology, and Animal Behavior, and he is active in several of the complexity-related groups across ASU's campus.

Education

• PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, 2010
• MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, 2007
• BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, 2004

Expertise

• solar energy systems
• energy economics
• energy efficiency technologies
• energy policy
• engineering ethics
• food systems
• Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
• informatics
• information theory
• mathematical and system dynamics modeling
• modeling and simulation
• plant ecology
• population biology
• socioecology
• energy conservation
• species adaptation
• Sustainable Cities and Communities
• terrestrial ecology
• transportation
• urban ecology
• urban infrastructure
• urban planning
• urban social-ecological systems
• water distribution systems
• water resource management
• water reuse
• watershed hydrology
• conservation biology
• alternative/renewable energy
• artificial intelligence
• automation
• bioinformatics
• biology/microbiology
• Affordable and Clean Energy
• agriculture
• algorithm development
• animal studies
• bioeconomics
• biophysics
• building technology
• aerospace industry
• data analysis
• data cleaning and information extraction
• data mining
• data-fusion technology
• decision making
• dynamical systems theory
• ecological behavior
• ecosystem disturbances
• ecosystem ecology
• ecosystem physiology
• ecosystem restoration
• emerging technologies