Director
Dr. Urban joined WPI as an assistant professor in the department of Fire Protection Engineering in 2019. Before that held dual appointments as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley from 2017 – 2019 where he earned his PhD. Dr. Urban has authored over 10 peer-reviewed publications which have over 100 citations.
Dr. Urban’s areas of active research include: developing sensors and detectors for wildland and wildland-urban interface fires, computational modelling and experiments of the ignition and burning of wildland and manufactured materials, and using flow visualization and computer vision techniques to measure fire and combustion phenomena.