Elie Bou-Zeid is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University, where he also served as the founding director of the Metropolis Project for urban technology until 2022. He is associated faculty in the High Meadows Environmental Institute, the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and the Center for Information Technology and Policy at Princeton. An expert in geophysics and atmospheric sciences, his research is broadly focused on measurement and modeling of mass and energy transfers in the lower atmosphere, with applications to urban environmental quality, building energy efficiency, and renewable energy production.