Glare Affairs: Navigating Nighttime Discomfort with Diverse Models
Recorded On: 07/17/2025
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The IES offers Educational Webinars throughout the year, purposefully spanning a broad range of topics and speaker expertise.
Description: What is a discomfort glare model, and why do we need one? This webinar will explore the methods used to develop discomfort glare models, the variety of models applied in outdoor environments after dark, their limitations, and the next steps towards industry adoption. This webinar will also cover new approaches of glare assessment and model development that use facial recognition, neural networks, and artificial intelligence.
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LockedDr. Yulia Tyukhova
Dr. Yulia Tyukhova is an independent researcher, whose research interests include human perception, lighting quality, glare, visual comfort, and data analytics. She received her PhD in Architectural Engineering – Lighting from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her past and present involvements include technical and non-technical committees of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), International Commission on Illumination (CIE), and the Transportation Research Board (TRB). Yulia is the Chair of the IES Marks Award committee and the past Chair of the IES Emerging Professional Program (EP) committee. Dr. Tyukhova authors and reviews scientific papers, holds two patents, and presents at various conferences. Yulia Tyukhova is a recipient of the Fulbright scholarship, Richard Kelly Grant, and the Science, Technology, Engineering, Production (STEP) Ahead Emerging Leader Award from the Manufacturing Institute.
Dr. Sneha Jain
Dr. Sneha Jain is a postdoctoral scholar in the Civil and Environmental Engineering school at Stanford University. Her research lies at the intersection of building technology, sustainability, human comfort, and wellbeing. She earned her PhD from EPFL in Switzerland, where she investigated the influence of eye physiology and color of daylight on human visual comfort in office environments. Sneha is an architect by training and have a background in building science and information technology. She was also a research fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL). Currently, her work at Stanford is on evaluating the impact of sustainable retrofitting on the wellbeing of low-income renters in affordable housing and on analyzing the impact of lighting exposure on older adults' physical health to support aging in place.