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Meet the Team!

Advisory Board

Martha Symko-Davies

Martha Symko-Davies

Advisory Board Chair

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Bryan Hannegan

Bryan Hannegan

President and CEO

Holy Cross Energy (HCE)

Florence Hudson

Florence Hudson

Executive Director

Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub at Columbia University

Damir Novosel

Damir Novosel

President

Quanta Technology

Samaneh Morovati

Samaneh Morovati

Principal Engineer

Quanta Technology

Arif Sarwat

Arif Sarwat

Eminent Scholar Chaired Professor

Florida International University

Benoit Lombardet

Benoit Lombardet

Director Batteries & Hydropower

TotalEnergies

Le Tang

Le Tang

Retired Vice President of ABB Inc. and Head of ABB US Corporate Research Center

Principal Investigators

Jan Kleissl

Jan Kleissl

Principal Investigator

UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Building Energy Efficiency, Solar Power Forecasting and Integration on Distribution Feeders, Microgrid Planning

Email: jkleissl@ucsd.edu

Phone: 858-822-5170

Sonai Martinez-Diaz

Sonai Martinez-Diaz

Co-Principal Investigator, Deputy Director, Adjunct Professor, Professor

UCSD Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Jorge Cortes

Jorge Cortes

Co-Principal Investigator, Professor

UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Coordinated control of energy efficient and flexible load operations, network optimization, multi-agent coordination, distributed control

Email: cortes@ucsd.edu

Phone: 858-822-7930

Raymond de Callafon

Raymond de Callafon

Co-Principal Investigator, Director

UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Synchrophasor Grid Monitoring and Automation (SyGMA) Laboratorium

Signal Processing, Estimation, Microgrid Control, Power Systems Dynamic Modeling

Email: callafon@ucsd.edu

Phone: 858-534-3166

Rajesh Gupta

Rajesh Gupta

Co-Principal Investigator, Founding Director, Distinguished Professor

UCSD Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute

Embedded and cyber-physical systems with a focus on energy efficiency from algorithms, devices to systems that scale from IC chips, and data centers to built environments such as commercial buildings

Senior Personnel

Keaton Chia

Keaton Chia

R&D Engineer and Project Manager

UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Building Energy Efficiency, Solar Power Forecasting and Integration on Distribution Feeders, Microgrid Planning

Email: kwchia@ucsd.edu

Phone: 858-859-1440

Adil Khurram

Adil Khurram

Project Scientist

UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Building Energy Efficiency, Solar Power Forecasting and Integration on Distribution Feeders, Microgrid Planning

Jesse Wolf

Jesse Wolf

Applications Programmer II

UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Hamed Valizadeh Haghi

Hamed Valizadeh Haghi

Principal Consultant

Southern California Edison, Research & Development Lead

Ryan Hanna

Ryan Hanna

Research Scientist

UCSD Center for Energy Research, Assistant Research Scientist

Decarbonization, energy systems analysis, microgrids, reliability evaluation

Mike Ferry

Mike Ferry

Research Director

UCSD Center for Energy Research

Building Energy Efficiency, Solar Power Forecasting and Integration on Distribution Feeders, Microgrid Planning

Email: mdferry@ucsd.edu

Phone: 510-305-2944

David Victor

David Victor

Social Science Research

UCSD School of Global Policy and Strategy, Professor

Ilkay Altintas

Ilkay Altintas

Cybersecurity Researcher

Halicioglu Data Science Institute, Fellow

Email: ialtintas@ucsd.edu

Phone: 858-822-5453

Sayed Sadat

Sayed Sadat

Postdoctoral Researcher

Phuong Truong

Phuong Truong

Education Outreach Specialist

UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Thank you to the undergraduate and graduate students whose work has helped build DERConnect. Your research, creativity, and excellent work have made this testbed possible.