Nathaniel Jones

Dr. Nathaniel Jones is a building scientist, educator, and software developer. He is a senior consultant at Arup, where he designs solutions for healthy and comfortable buildings using engineering and computer science. He is the developer of comfort.arup.com, Arup's advanced online comfort modeling tool, and of Accelerad, a suite of open-source GPU-based lighting and daylighting simulation tools used by architects, engineers, and educators around the world. Nathaniel serves on the board of the International Building Performance Simulation Association-USA chapter, where he chairs its Research Committee and subcommittee on Emerging Simulation Technologies. He is the author of over twenty journal and conference papers related to simulation of the built environment, and he has regularly been an invited speaker on the application of parallel computation to building simulation.