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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

Kirti Chaudhary

Kirti Chaudhary

Applications Programmer I

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

Anthony Cho

Anthony Cho

Staff Researcher

UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Email: anc081@ucsd.edu

Phone: 858-822-5453

Team Members

Chi Zhang

Chi Zhang

Graduate Research Assistant

UCSD Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Melek Ben-Ayed

Melek Ben-Ayed

Graduate Research Assistant

UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Grace Yang

Grace Yang

Undergraduate Business Development and Project Assistant

UCSD Department of Economics

Neha Jacob

Neha Jacob

Undergraduate Research Assistant

UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Param Shah

Param Shah

Undergraduate Research Assistant

UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Rachel Hartanto

Rachel Hartanto

Undergraduate Research Assistant

UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Charlie Frank

Charlie Frank

Undergraduate Research Assistant

UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Peter Lee

Peter Lee

Undergraduate Software Developer

UCSD Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Josue Martinez

Josue Martinez

Undergraduate Software Developer

UCSD Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Eric Chen

Eric Chen

Undergraduate Research Assistant

UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Carly Huen

Carly Huen

Undergraduate Research Assistant

UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Kai Patel

Kai Patel

Undergraduate Research Assistant

UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Trenton Blom

Trenton Blom

Undergraduate Research Assistant

UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Ashton Simbol

Ashton Simbol

Undergraduate Research Assistant

UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Samuel Andre

Samuel Andre

Undergraduate Research Assistant

UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Past Contributors

Shivangi Shakya

Shivangi Shakya

Staff Researcher

UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Devanshi Jain

Devanshi Jain

Software Engineer

UCSD Department of Computer Science and Engineering