Speakers
DOE University Consortium EARNEST Kickoff
January 30, 2024
Speakers
Saurabh Amin
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nils Angliviel de La Beaumelle
Ph.D. Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
Inês Azevedo
Associate Professor of Energy Science Engineering and by courtesy, of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Venkat Banunarayanan
Vice President of Integrated Grid, National Rural Electric Cooperatives Association
Sally Benson
Precourt Family Professor, Professor of Energy Science Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
Anjan Bose
Regents Professor, Distinguished Professor in Power, Washington State University
Joshua Byrnes
Board Member, Iowa Utilities Board
Claudio Cañizares
Professor, Executive Director of the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy, University of Waterloo
Jeff Dagle
Chief Electrical Engineer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Priya Donti
Assistant Professor, MIT EECS and LIDS; Co-founder and Chair, Climate Change AI
Roland Horne
Director, Precourt Institute for Energy and Thomas Davies Barrow Professor
Holmes Hummel, PhD
Managing Director Energy Equity & Just Transitions, Precourt Institute for Energy
Tracey LeBeau
Administrator and Chief Executive Officer, Western Area Power Administration
Yulia Liu
Governor’s Chair for Power Electronics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Kevin Lynn
Director, Grid Modernization, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office, U.S. Department of Energy
Arun Majumdar
Dean, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Jay Precourt Professor, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, of Energy Science & Engineering, of Photon Science
James McCalley
Professor in Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University
Liang Min
Managing Director Bits & Watts Initiative, Precourt Institute for Energy
Chad Nordlum
Energy Project Manager, Native Village of Kotzebue, Alaska
Ram Rajagopal
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of Electrical Engineering
Lisa Redsteer
Engineering Outreach Coordinator, Northwest Indian College
Dan Reicher
Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Woods Institute for Environment
Alice Busching Reynolds
President, California Public Utilities Commission
Gene Rodrigues
Assistant Secretary for Electricity, Office of Electricity, U.S. Department of Energy
Leon Roose
Chief Technologist, GridSTART, University of Hawaii
Mari Rose Taruc
Energy Justice Director, California Environmental Justice Alliance
Kamran Tehranchi
Ph.D. Student, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
Quynh Tran
Power Systems Engineer, University of Hawaii
Eugene Tso
Deputy Director for U.S. and Americas in the Bilateral Affairs Division of Natural Resources, Canada
Parth Vaishnav
Assistant Professor, Sustainable Systems, Climate + Energy, University of Michigan
Oscar Vázquez Montiel
Director of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Technological Infrastructure, Institute of Innovation and Technology Transfer (I2T2) of Nuevo Leon
Mani Venkatasubramanian
Boeing Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering, Washington State University
David Victor
Professor; Peter Cowhey Center on Global Transformation Chair in Innovation and Public Policy
UC San Diego
Michael Wara
Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Michelle Wilber
Research Engineer, University of Alaska Fairbanks