Meet the Team!
Advisory Board
Martha Symko-Davies
Advisory Board Chair
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Bryan Hannegan
President and CEO
Holy Cross Energy (HCE)
Florence Hudson
Executive Director
Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub at Columbia University
Damir Novosel
President
Quanta Technology
Samaneh Morovati
Principal Engineer
Quanta Technology
Arif Sarwat
Eminent Scholar Chaired Professor
Florida International University
Email: asarwat@fiu.edu
Benoit Lombardet
Director Batteries & Hydropower
TotalEnergies
Le Tang
Retired Vice President of ABB Inc. and Head of ABB US Corporate Research Center
Email: le.tang@us.abb.com
Principal Investigators
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
Co-Principal Investigator, Deputy Director, Adjunct Professor, Professor
UCSD Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: soniamd@ucsd.edu
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
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
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
Email: gupta@ucsd.edu
Senior Personnel
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
Project Scientist
UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Building Energy Efficiency, Solar Power Forecasting and Integration on Distribution Feeders, Microgrid Planning
Email: akhurram@ucsd.edu
Jesse Wolf
Applications Programmer II
UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: jwolf@ucsd.edu
Hamed Valizadeh Haghi
Principal Consultant
Southern California Edison, Research & Development Lead
Email: valizadeh@ieee.org
Ryan Hanna
Research Scientist
UCSD Center for Energy Research, Assistant Research Scientist
Decarbonization, energy systems analysis, microgrids, reliability evaluation
Email: rehanna@ucsd.edu
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
Social Science Research
UCSD School of Global Policy and Strategy, Professor
Email: david.victor@ucsd.edu
Ilkay Altintas
Cybersecurity Researcher
Halicioglu Data Science Institute, Fellow
Email: ialtintas@ucsd.edu
Phone: 858-822-5453
Phuong Truong
Education Outreach Specialist
UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: p1truong@ucsd.edu
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.