Stacy Angel
Stacy Angel is a Program Manager with EPA’s Climate Protection Partnership Division focusing on utility policies to advance clean energy and energy efficiency. She currently manages EPA’s sponsorship of the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency and provides technical assistance to state utility commissions. She also serves on the interagency Smart Grid Task Force. Prior to EPA, Mrs. Angel worked at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Pace Global Energy Services where she gained experience with electricity, natural gas and financial market oversight, as well as fuel due diligence for large independent power investments. Mrs. Angel holds a Bachelor of Science in Integrated Science and Technology from James Madison University. She is a member of the Association of Energy Service Professionals and the Women’s Council on Energy and the Environment.
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Carrie Armel
Dr. Carrie Armel is a research associate at Stanford’s Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency (PIEE) where she investigates the diverse ways in which an understanding of human behavior can lead to improvements in energy efficiency. For example, the application of behavioral principles can produce significant energy reductions through interventions implemented at the policy, technology, built environment, media/marketing, and organizational/community levels. Dr. Armel co-chairs the Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change Conference; oversees Precourt Institute’s Behavior and Energy Bibliographic Database and Website; and teaches courses on behavior and energy at Stanford. In addition to these initiatives, Dr. Armel develops specific energy efficiency interventions that apply behavioral and design principles, and develops measures to evaluate the efficacy of such interventions. Her most recent project involves a collaboration between academic and non-academic organizations to design and evaluate a technology that takes advantage of smart meters to provide feedback to residents on home electricity use. Dr. Armel completed a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of California at San Diego, and postdoctoral work in Neuro-Economics at Stanford. In these programs she employed behavioral, psychophysiological, and neuroscientific methods to investigate how affect and motivation influence behavior. She most recently completed postdoctoral work at Stanford’s School of Medicine, translating intervention techniques used in health promotion work into the domain of energy efficiency.
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Albert Bandura
Albert Bandura is David Starr Jordan Professor of Social Sciences in Psychology at Stanford University. His areas of research center on the power of social modeling in shaping human attitudes, values, and styles of behavior and the self-regulatory mechanisms through which people exercise control over their own functioning and events that affect their lives. His most recent book, “Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control” presents belief in one’s efficacy to effect personal and social change as the foundation of human motivation and action. He is past president of the American Psychology Association and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Banny Banerjee
Banny is the Director of the Stanford Design Program, which has contributed heavily in shaping the design field through its unique approach to human centered innovation. Banny is interested in realizing the design field’s potential in catalyzing systemic change. As design begins to grapple with increasingly complex problems, at the Stanford Design Program, he is working on developing radically new processes in which design thinking can be leveraged. His focus is to develop transdisciplinary processes to bring about rapid change and large-scale impact. He is the founder of the “Design for Change Lab” to address issues of sustainability, technology futures, and the dynamics of rapid change. Currently he is working with faculty from behavioral sciences, social economics, systems analysis, management science, engineering, and art to generate new platforms for design thinking. Originally trained as an architect, Banny Banerjee holds graduate degrees in Architecture, Mechanical Engineering, and Design. In India, he worked in the fields of architecture, structural engineering, adobe housing for the rural poor, and low embodied energy building systems. After coming to the US, he worked in the fields of computer simulation for energy in complex systems, software engineering, mechanical engineering, product design, industrial design, furniture design, interactive art, and design strategy. His interests in the confluence between digital and physical experiences took him to Xerox PARC where he worked on ambient media and physical computing. Prior to Stanford, he worked for IDEO as designer and design strategist creating novel experiences and crafting futures for high technology companies. As a person who likes to cross boundaries between disciplines, he has worked on projects related to architecture, energy analysis, software design, structural engineering, MEMs applications, nanotechnology, ambient media, object semiotics, space missions for Jet Propulsion Laboratories, low cost structural systems, sustainable design, appropriate technology for third world countries, organizational transformation, technology strategy, and technology art.
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Jack Barkenbus
Dr. Barkenbus, a political scientist and researcher, joined VCEMS in 2006. He previously was Executive Director of the Energy, Environment and Resources Center at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville for 15 years. His research has focused on the interface of technology and institutions, and he is currently engaged in climate change and energy policy research. Before joining the University of Tennessee, Dr. Barkenbus served 10 years as senior scientist and deputy director for the Institute for Energy Analysis, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Prior to moving to East Tennessee, Dr. Barkenbus was a researcher at the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, and at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. He also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Turkey for three years in the late 1960s. Dr. Barkenbus has traveled widely over the past decade. He was a Fulbright scholar to Greece and Turkey in 2005, and carried out a research fellowship at Hawaii’s East-West Center in 2000. He led a United States-Asia Environmental Partnership project to Hong Kong in 1999, and received an Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship in 1996 that allowed him to conduct research in Malaysia for two months.
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Rich Blomseth
Rich Blomseth is Echelon’s product manager for development and integration tools. Since 1989, he has worked with hundreds of OEM manufacturers, integrators, end users, and specifying engineers on the development of open, interoperable LonWorks products. Rich has been instrumental in creating many of Echelon’s development, integration, and Internet tools, is a co-inventor of Echelon’s Interoperable Self-installation (ISI) protocol, and chairs the LonMark Building Automation Systems task group. He has worked in the controls industry since 1978 when, as a U.S. Air Force program manager, he directed more than 200 engineers developing the ground control system of the GPS satellite navigation system. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, both from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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Sam Borgeson
Sam Borgeson is pursuing M.S. degrees in Building Science and Energy and Resources at UC Berkeley. He hopes to improve our understanding of the interface between built and natural environments and is interested in developing effective technical, economic, and policy tools to support the widespread delivery of low impact buildings. Sam is a co-recipient of a campus Green Initiative Fund grant to design and build an interactive web-based system to track and visualize campus resource use in support of mitigation goals, research, and education. Sam is also a Switzer Environmental Fellow for 2008. Sam holds a B.A. in Physics from Wesleyan University. In 2000, he co-founded Carbon Five, a San Francisco based software consulting firm. He left his position as a managing partner to pursue his passion for reducing the environmental impacts of our built environment full time.
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Bill Burnett
Bill Burnett has been a Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford for over 20 years and is currently the Executive Director of the Design Program at Stanford. He directs both the undergraduate and graduate program in design, both joint programs between the Mechanical Engineering department and the Art department. He got his BS and MS in Product Design at Stanford and has worked professionally on a wide variety of projects ranging from award-winning Apple PowerBooks to the original Hasbro Star Wars action figures. In addition to his duties at Stanford, he is a on the Board of D2M, a product design consultancy, Dalson Energy, an alternative energy company focused on developing biomass gasification energy systems for small-scale municipalities, and advises several Internet start-up companies.
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Carissa Carter
Carissa Carter is a PhD student in engineering-design at Stanford University. She designs for mass behavior change around complex world problems. A former geologist, Carissa holds MS degrees in Product Design and Earth Science.
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Stephanie Carter
Stephanie Carter is a Master's student in Design at Stanford. She is a LEED accredited urban planner with interests in appropriate technology and biomimetic design.
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Joan Collins
Joan is Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Widefield Technology, Inc- a solutions company serving the utility industry for conservation, pre-payment, and self service. Joan’s background includes combined industry expertise from Motorola, AT&T, AMR Research, and Square D Company, much of which has served the utility industry specifically. She has presented at numerous forums nationally and internationally. Joan holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Marketing from The Ohio State University and a Certificate of International Economic Study from Groupe Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Nantes.
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Marilyn Cornelius
Marilyn Cornelius was born and raised in Fiji. She holds an AA degree in Graphic Design (summa cum laude) from Chabot College in the East Bay, and a BSc in Business and Environmental Resource Management (summa cum laude) from Menlo College in Atherton. While at Menlo College, Marilyn was a Presidential Scholar and was also awarded the International Student Scholarship. She co-founded a service-learning program for scholarship recipients with a focus on environmental and social justice. In 2003 she graduated as valedictorian. Marilyn has worked as a research consultant for the Wildlife Conservation Society. She was Assistant National Director for the International Waters Program, a project spanning 14 Pacific Island countries focusing on conservation of freshwater and coastal resources. As Environment Associate for the UNDP, she has managed environmental projects in 10 Pacific Island nations focusing on climate change, land degradation, energy, and biodiversity. Most recently, Marilyn worked closely for two years with Stephen Schneider, one of the world’s eminent climatologists, before commencing her doctoral studies at Stanford. At Stanford Marilyn is focusing on how identity and justice motivate behavior change in the context of mitigation of climate change. Specifically, Marilyn is interested in how global identity can be leveraged to motivate local mitigation behaviors, including energy and transportation related behaviors.
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Kat Donnelly
Kat Donnelly is the President of EMPower Devices, a woman-owned consulting firm providing simple, cost-effective energy management solutions. Her past research work at MIT examined the impact of consumer behavior on energy consumption, especially related to energy efficiency and demand response. Previously she was with the San Diego Association of Governments in California, as a Senior Transportation & Land-Use Planner & Engineer. Earlier she was with Kimley-Horn and Associates, where she was a practicing civil and environmental engineer. Ms. Donnelly holds a BSCE from San Diego State University, a dual SM in Technology & Policy, and Civil & Environmental Engineering, from MIT, and is currently on academic leave from her Ph.D. studies in the Engineering Systems Division at MIT.
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Karen Ehrhardt-Martinez
Karen Ehrhardt-Martinez is a member of the policy research staff in the National and State Energy Policy Program at the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. Her work focuses on the human dimensions of energy and climate change and includes research and analysis of technologies and programs designed to increase energy efficiency across all segments and sectors of U.S. society. Karen's current work includes efforts to integrate social preferences into energy policy models and the co-coordination of the Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Conference. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the Ohio State University.
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George Flammer
George is currently Chief Scientist at Silver Spring Networks. He joined as VP of Engineering to develop SSN’s current product line and architecture. He now helps plan product evolution and technology direction.
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Glenn Forrester
Glenn has 22 years of experience in establishing and operating emerging growth companies in the technology field. He founded his current company, Reach Systems, in 2005. Reach has built a Internet gateway device and hosted web application platform for providing Managed Services for Connected Devices - supported service applications include security, energy management and health monitoring. He also was Founder and President of Coral Software, a firm subsequently acquired by Apple Computer. Mr. Forrester received an A.B. cum laude from Harvard College.
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Lori Glauser
Lori Glauser is Product Manager at Itron, where she is responsible for the online presentment of electricity, gas, and water use data to smart meter customers. Lori previously held various engineering, consulting, and software product management roles for utility clients and stakeholders. From 1991 to 1995, she worked as a mechanical engineer at nuclear plants for Stone & Webster. After business school, she joined Stone & Webster Management Consultants, and later Financial Times Energy (acquired by Platts) where she worked on energy economics and forecasting, industry restructuring, rate cases, project finance, and emissions analyses. In 1999 Lori joined a dot com that was later acquired by DoubleClick, and in 2001 co-founded Kilohertz Networks, Inc, a media syndication company. In 2004, she joined SNL Financial, and industry market intelligence and analytics firm, as Associate Director, Energy. Lori maintains an energy blog on which she posted about the 2008 Energy & Feedback Workshop.
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Matt Golden
Matt Golden is the co-founder and president of Sustainable Spaces. Prior to founding the company in 2004, Matt worked as an Energy Consultant helping homeowners and businesses develop solar power systems. As an energy consultant, he soon realized that he was offering only a point solution and could not really address most homeowner's desire to make their homes and lives more sustainable. ??Matt developed the concept for Sustainable Spaces to meet this market demand by providing a single full-service resource and a brand homeowners can trust to help them improve the comfort, health, and efficiency of their home. Matt speaks extensively on building science and integrated green design to groups such as the AIA (American Institute of Architects), West Coast Green, Build it Green and others. Matt has authored a number of articles or Home Energy Magazine, and has been featured in the USA Today, SF Chronicle, KQED Radio, and the Ellen Degeneres Show. He currently resides on the following boards: Department of Energy (DOE) Home Performance Council, California Building Performance Contractors Association (CBPCA), Build It Green, and Fine Home Building Magazine Green Building Advisory Board. Matt holds a bachelors degree in foreign relations from Georgetown University.
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Aloke Gupta
Aloke Gupta is an Energy Analyst with CPUC. Before this role, he had an extensive career in telecom, networking and technology industries, having worked at large companies (AT&T, Lucent Tech, Agere Systems) as well as venture capital funded startups in various functions involving product management, marketing, and business development. More recently, he began to pursue his long-standing interest in the energy field and had assignments in cleantech consulting and solar project development prior to joining CPUC. He has MSEE / MBA degrees from Stanford and Lehigh Universities.
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Jay Hasbrouck
Jay Hasbrouck is a Senior Human Factors Specialist in the San Francisco office of IDEO. His interests include sustainability and the role of technology, social networks, visual culture, space, place, and cultural landscape. His work is used to inform design development processes by driving consumer and key stakeholder insights into product/concept design, development and positioning. Jay has conducted fieldwork in Mexico, Egypt, Germany, South Korea, Brazil, and the United States. He holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology and an M.A. in Visual Anthropology, both from the University of Southern California.
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J. Daniell Hebert
J. Daniell Hebert is the CEO of MOTO Development Group which he founded with college roommate Gregor Berkowitz in 1991. MOTO is a leading product research and development company focusing on innovation and product development that blends electronics, software, and mechanical engineering. Under Daniell's leadership, MOTO has provided advanced research and intellectual property for leading research and innovation groups at Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Hewlett Packard, Interval Research, Motorola, Casio and Ricoh. MOTO has also developed and shipped high volume consumer electronics products for Virgin, Intel, Logitech, Sirius and many other startup companies. While at MOTO, Daniell was also the founder and CTO of two startup companies: Mjuice (1997) a secure music download company (aquired by Artist Direct) and MVOEM/MSX (2003) a software company providing deeply brand-customized mobile phones and services. Prior to founding MOTO, Daniell was a researcher in MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and later joined Apple Computer as a researcher of advanced manufacturing systems. Daniell received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and completed the Stanford Business School Executive Program for Growing Companies. He has been awarded patents for portable computer systems, portable audio systems and medical instruments.
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Karen Herter
Dr. Herter is an Associate Director at HMG, specializing in demand response technologies and pricing strategies, policy analysis, standards development, field studies and evaluation. Before joining HMG, Dr. Herter was a principal research associate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Environmental Energy Technologies Division. She worked for six years as a consultant to staff and commissioners at the California Energy Commission, and continues to be an active member of the Demand Response Committee headed by Commissioner Art Rosenfeld. Dr. Herter currently manages several HMG projects involving demand response technologies, programs, and evaluation. She is the project manager for the California Demand Response Potential study under the guidance of the California Public Utilities Commission, the Energy Commission, and the three investor-owned utilities. She is also leading the implementation of a pilot at the Sacramento Municipal Utility District investigating the behavioral aspects of involving small commercial customers in demand response programs. Outside the DR realm, Karen manages the day-to-day operations of the Governor’s Benchmarking initiative under Executive Order S-20-04, which involves coordination between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, all California energy utilities, and over 30 State departments. Dr. Herter earned her Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from the University of California at Berkeley in 2006. She also holds an M.S. in Environmental Studies and B.A. degrees in both Mathematics and Psychology. Recent publications include two separate analyses of California Statewide Pricing Pilot data (Energy, January 2007 and Energy Policy, April 2007).
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Ryan Hledik
Ryan Hledik is an associate of The Brattle Group with specialized expertise in demand-side issues in the electric utility sector. He has assisted electric utilities, regulators, and research organizations in the development of innovative demand response and energy efficiency programs, and in the analysis and implementation of policies regarding these programs. Additionally, Mr. Hledik has experience modeling energy markets for the purposes of wholesale price forecasting, asset valuation, and market power analysis. As a research assistant with Stanford University's Energy Modeling Forum, he provided assistance in a study regarding the outlook for international natural gas markets and developed a model for forecasting trends in these markets. Mr. Hledik received his M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University in 2006, where his concentration was in Energy Economics and Policy. He received his B.S. in Applied Science (with honors) from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002 with minors in Economics and Mathematics. Prior to joining The Brattle Group, Mr. Hledik was a research analyst at CRA International where his work included large-scale energy market modeling and market power analysis.
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Peter Honebein
Peter C. Honebein, Ph.D., is a consultant, author, and researcher with Customer Performance Group LLC. He specializes in designing systems and experiences that launch innovations and improve the performance of employees and customers. As a consultant, Peter applies his multidisciplinary experience and vast knowledge of design, marketing, product development, and performance technology to solve novel problems related to human performance. He has created and licensed commercial products such as DTP Advisor (Broderbund Software), and he designed the system that tracked the cleanup of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. He has consulted on the design, strategy, and launch of numerous innovations and products, from smart meters to the system that sequenced the human genome. He is co-inventor on patent number 6,326,147, for a device that automatically prepares samples for genetic analysis. Peter is also an adjunct professor at Indiana University and the University of Nevada, Reno, where he teaches classes in marketing, customer experience design, performance consulting, and instructional design. He is author of numerous articles and the books Creating Do-It-Yourself Customers and Strategies for Effective Customer Education. He earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University and his BA from Pepperdine University.
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Sebastien Houde
Sebastien Houde is a PhD student in the Management Science and Engineering program at Stanford University. His current research interests span behavioral decision-making in the context of energy decisions and modeling tools to support policy design for energy conservation. Before coming to Stanford, Sebastien was a research assistant at Resources for the Future where he worked on land-use and transport economics.
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Chuck House
Chuck House, Executive Director of Media X at Stanford University, participant in creating twelve product lines over a thirty-year career at HP and former leader of the Intel Research Collaboratory, has been an advisor with 25 start-up companies. He has been cited by Smithsonian and the Computer History Museum as one of the top 200 Computer Wizards of America, holds HP's Medal of Defiance as well as the named Chuck House Productivity Award, and was ACM President from 1996-1998. He has just completed research for a forthcoming book — The HP Phenomenon — that examines the consistent innovation patterns of the world's largest high-tech firm, and comes to some surprising conclusions on how it has been able to transition itself time and again.
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Ted Howes
Ted leads IDEO's efforts in integrating sustainability and business. He has dedicated his career to exploring this intersection and is passionate about using the lens of business and sustainability to guide corporate strategy. Ted is expert in assessing, designing and implementing corporate sustainability and procurement programs that are customized to the needs and markets of individual clients, as well as examining and reconciling sustainability issues for academic, NGO and corporate stakeholders. Prior to joining IDEO in 2007, Ted was Vice-President of Corporate Social Responsibility and Supply Chain Programs at SCS, an environmental consulting and certification company. At SCS, Ted helped companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 50 corporations, including Wal-Mart, Numi Tea, The Home Depot and Starbucks. For Starbucks, Ted led the development, global implementation and audit of the much lauded Starbucks sustainable green coffee sourcing program, C.A.F.E. Practices. He was also helped develop the metrics and indicators for a national sustainable agriculture initiative and managed the global sustainable cut flower certification program VeriFlora. He started his career covering the environment as a broadcast journalist in Taipei, Taiwan and worked as an eco-tourism consultant upon his return to the U.S. Ted has a MBA from UC Davis in Environmental Management and Strategy, and concurrently completed a certificate in Corporate Environmental Management at UC Santa Barbara's Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. For his BA in Asian Studies, Chinese History at UC Berkeley, Ted explored the development and use of gunpowder to compare technological innovation in China and the west.
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Jean Hsu
Jean is a designer optimist with a knack for bending space. Jean is a third year post-Master's graduate student in the Stanford Design Program. Her interests include local design, social eating experiences, dynamics of large scale transformation, and and advancing cross-cultural design interaction.
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David Hungerford
David Hungerford is the Special Advisor to Commissioner Arthur Rosenfeld at the California Energy Commission. He most recently served as the Energy Commission’s Lead Staff on demand response policy development. He was the facilitator of a committee formed to oversee measurement and evaluation of Demand Response programs and rate designs approved by the California Public Utilities Commission, as well as the facilitator of Working Group set up by the California Public Utilities Commission to develop programs and tariffs for large commercial and industrial customers. Dr. Hungerford’s professional career has focused on conducting and overseeing evaluation research of energy efficiency and demand response programs and using those results to analyze the impacts of policy change for the purpose of developing and guiding policy initiatives. He has also served on numerous technical advisory committees for investor-owned utility programs and public interest energy research (PIER) projects. Since 2003, He has served on the advisory group overseeing PIER demand response research at the Demand Response Research Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and as a member of the technical advisory panel for the San Diego Gas & Electric Advanced Metering Infrastructure project. His professional focus is in energy policy analysis and his research interests are in technology/society issues, technology adoption, consumer behavior, and social change applied to the problem of energy consumption. He received his Ph.D. in Human Ecology from the University of California, Davis and holds a B.A. in English and Environmental Studies from Baylor University.
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Erfan Ibrahim
Erfan Ibrahim is a Technical Executive in the Intelligrid program area of the Power Delivery & Utilization Sector. His current research activities focus on the communications infrastructure for the utility Smart Grid with particular emphasis on Home Area Networks (HAN), Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), Building Automation Networks (BAN) and Energy Management Systems (EMS). Before joining EPRI, Dr. Ibrahim founded and managed The Bit Bazaar LLC (TBB), a full service IT and business consulting firm, offering services to clients in the High Tech, Financial Services, and Energy sectors. At TBB Dr. Ibrahim focused on wireless communications, network management, and information security technologies with a particular emphasis on aligning the IT goals of his clients with their business goals for sustained competitive advantage. Prior to establishing The Bit Bazaar LLC, Dr. Ibrahim’s career included the following positions: VP of Sales & Marketing at Jyra Research, Product Manager for Network Management at Pacific Bell Network Integration (now AT&T), Science and Math Lecturer at National University, Nuclear Fusion Research Engineer at UCLA and Plasma Physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Dr. Ibrahim received a Ph. D. in Nuclear Engineering from University of California Berkeley, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas Austin, and a B.S. Honors in Physics from Syracuse University (Suma Cum Laude).
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Capra J'neva Devi
Capra J'neva is a recent graduate of Stanford’s Product Design master’s program where she received the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Award for industrial design, created affordable solar solutions for renters, helped invent a laser cutting machine to make drip tape for the world's poorest farmers and garnered 1 European patent. She has 12 years experience running her own multimedia development firm and a background in the fine arts. As a leader in the integrated ecological design and alternative fuels movements, she has lectured at Stanford University, Lewis & Clark College, Evergreen State in Washington, Portland State University and the Xopilote Institute in Mexico. She is passionate about providing affordable plug-and-play energy alternatives to help citizens contribute to a more sustainable future in their own communities.
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Erin Jones
While attending Boalt Hall, Dr. Jones served as a judicial extern for Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California. She was also a Submissions Editor for the Berkeley Technology Law Journal and an intern for the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic. Before law school, Dr. Jones worked for many years in the microelectronics industry, as a Research Staff Member and Manager in the IBM Research Division, in Yorktown Heights, NY, and as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University. Dr. Jones is a co-inventor named on more than 20 U.S. Patents and has published many articles and book chapters on the subjects of exploratory silicon devices and fabrication methods.
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Omar Khan
Omar Khan is Computer Science PhD student at UC Berkeley, in the Berkeley Institute of Design. His research explores how we can leverage sensed data in highly sensed environments to help persuade individuals to enact desired behaviors. Specifically, he is trying to get people to enact more environmentally sustainable behaviors. Beyond individuals, Omar is looking at how persuasive technologies might be used to convey information to building managers, policy makers, and others with power to make relevant changes. Omar is a co-recipient of a Berkeley Green Initiative Fund grant to design and build an interactive web-based system to track and visualize campus resource use in support of mitigation goals, research, and education. Prior to Berkeley, Omar worked at Google where he was a founding member of the Google Desktop team. He continues to spend some of his time working at Google on problems related to environmental sustainability.
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Scott Klemmer
Scott Klemmer is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he co-directs the Human-Computer Interaction Group. He collaborates with Stanford's Institute of Design, and serves on the steering committee of the Symbolic Systems program. He received a dual BA in Art-Semiotics and Computer Science from Brown University, and an MS and PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley. Several of his (along with many colleagues) research systems have had commercial impact: his speech design tool has been used and extended by dozens of companies; a system for vision-based capture of walls inspired current commercial product features; and the handheld augmentation of books fueled advanced development in industry. He is a co-recipient of the UIST 2006 and CHI 2007 Best Paper Awards, 2006 Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship, and 2008 Sloan Fellowship.
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Dane Kouttron
Dane Kouttron is an Electrical & Electrical Power Dual Major at Renesselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is president of the RPI Electronics club, managing demonstrations and the student run electronics laboratory. He has also worked in hardware and software development for numerous campus programs, ranging from bio-chemistry to the Arts department.
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Craig Lawrence
Craig joined Accel Partners in 2008 with a focus on emerging technologies in the energy industry. He advises companies and seeks investments for Accel in a number of areas related to energy, including energy efficiency, intelligent energy management and distribution, renewable energy, energy storage, and transportation. In addition, Craig is interested in the impact of new energy technologies on consumers, and in companies that leverage the growing consumer awareness of energy and sustainability issues. Craig brings to Accel over 15 years of experience in R&D, engineering, product development, and senior management. Prior to joining Accel, Craig spent 10 years at IDEO, one the world’s leading product development and innovation companies. At IDEO, Craig led multi-disciplinary teams of designers, researchers and engineers developing products and services for start-ups and large global companies across a range of industries, including consumer electronics, consumer products, medical devices, office furniture, and energy. Craig holds numerous patents across several industries, and his products have been recognized with international design awards. Most recently, Craig developed and led IDEO’s energy practice, which focuses on providing strategy, design, and engineering services to the energy industry. Craig frequently speaks on design and innovation as it relates to energy. Craig holds a B.S in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, where his research focused on Smart Materials. Craig’s research explored how we might increase the intelligence, functionality, and efficiency of materials through the use of embedded sensors, actuators and computational power. This work led to several patents and publications in leading research journals.
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Philip Levis
Philip is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Departments of Stanford University. When laws of scale and Moore's Law mean that we can have computers embedded everywhere and in everything, it's unlikely that they will use the operating systems, networking, or programming languages of today. Philip is interested in researching what these low-power wireless networks comprised of large numbers of tiny embedded nodes will use. Philip heads the Stanford Information Networking Group (SING), and recently received the honor of being a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellow!
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Roger Levy
Roger Levy is the President of Levy Associates, a Sacramento, California management consulting firm started in 1980. Levy Associates specializes in market and technology planning, competitive assessments, evaluation and regulatory policy. Mr. Levy is currently engaged as a consultant to the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Demand Response Research Center. In that capacity, he is actively involved in leading their research efforts in rate design, the valuation of demand response, home automation, and end-use technology. Mr. Levy is also engaged in several “sustainable community” projects with private developers where his responsibilities include the integration of demand response, energy efficiency, renewable and smart grid measures. Mr. Levy was the principal consultant to the California Energy Commission on their advanced metering, pricing, demand side technology and related demand response initiatives. Mr. Levy received a BS degree in Management Science from the University of Rochester and a MBA from the University of Southern California. His work experience includes positions with Xerox Corporation, RCA, Arthur Young & Company and Price Waterhouse. Roger is a member of AMRA, AESP, and IEEE. He also serves on the Technical Advisory Committee for the Demand Response Enabling Technology Development project under the University of California Office of the President.
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Nate Littrell
Nate is a senior systems engineer at General Electric focusing on smart grid technology. He has 15 years experience in the field of asset condition monitoring and optimization. Nate spent several years performing experimental research in the field of rotor dynamics and has numerous published papers and four patents in this area. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of California and currently serves on various standards organizations related to the smart grid including OpenHAN, ZigBee and the HomePlug Alliance.
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Beyang Liu
Beyang Liu is an undergraduate computer science major at Stanford University. He has been working in Human-Computer Interaction under Professor Scott Klemmer over the summer and is a member of the Sustainable Decisions Research Group. He is working with the group to identify principles behind environmental behavior change in order to develop a better user interface for residential energy monitors.
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Beth Rolls Mathewson
Beth Rolls Mathewson is an external and internal communications professional with over 16 years experience in translating complex subjects for a variety of audiences. She is currently the Stakeholder Education Manager for SDG&E's Smart Meter program, responsible for integrated external communication including public affairs, media relations, community relations, customer communications, online media and research. She spends a great deal of her time converting complicated smart metering concepts for key audiences who do not hold engineering or IT degrees. Her background is in corporate communications, electronic communication vehicles, executive writing, strategic marketing, publications, events and public positioning. She has held communications leadership roles at Sempra Energy, Gateway, and Caterpillar's Solar Turbines. Ms. Rolls Mathewson is an active member of the San Diego community through board participation with Volunteer San Diego, is the 2008 chair of Hands On San Diego, and the establishment of Pacific Rim Park.
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Samuel McClure
Samuel McClure is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University. He completed his Ph.D. in neuroscience and studies the neural basis of decision making in people.
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Alan Meier
Alan Meier is a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a Faculty Researcher at UC Davis. He earned his Ph.D. in Energy & Resources from UC Berkeley after completing degrees in chemistry and economics. He spent one year at Waseda University in Japan and, more recently, three years at the International Energy Agency. Alan’s research has focused on understanding how people (and machines) use energy and the opportunities to conserve. His research on standby power use in appliances—1% of global CO2 emissions—led him to propose an international plan to reduce standby in all devices to less than 1 watt, which has now been endorsed by the G8 countries. Other research topics include energy use of consumer electronics, energy test procedures, and international policies to promote energy efficiency. Alan is editor of the journal, Energy and Buildings, and the magazine, Home Energy. At UC Davis, Alan is co-Director of the Energy Efficiency Center responsible for Curriculum. He teaches courses on energy efficiency, including “Foundations of Energy Efficiency: Understanding the Other Side of the Meter” and “Economics of Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation”.
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Joy Morgenstern
Joy Morgenstern works on Demand Response programs for the California Public Utilities Commission. She has a Ph.D. in Energy Management and Environmental Policy from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Physics from The City College of New York.
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Deirdre Mulligan
Deirdre K. Mulligan joined the UC Berkeley School of Information after time at the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where she was a clinical professor of law and the director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic. She served previously as staff counsel at the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington. Through the clinic, Mulligan worked to foster the public’s interest in new computer and communication technology by engaging in client advocacy and interdisciplinary research, and by participating in developing technical standards and protocols. The clinic’s work has advanced and protected the public’s interest in free expression, individual privacy, balanced intellectual property rules, and secure, reliable, open communication networks. Mulligan writes about the risks and opportunities technology presents to privacy, free expression, and access and use of information goods. Recent publications about privacy include: “Storing Our Lives Online: Expanded Email Storage Raises Complex Policy Issues,” with Ari Schwartz and Indrani Mondal, forthcoming 2005, I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society; and, “Reasonable Expectations in Electronic Communications: A Critical Perspective on the Electronic Communications Privacy Act,” 72 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1557 (2004). Mulligan was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Authentication Technology and Its Privacy Implications; the Federal Trade Commission’s Federal Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security, and the National Task Force on Privacy, Technology, and Criminal Justice Information. She was a vice-chair of the California Bipartisan Commission on Internet Political Practices and chaired the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) Conference in 2004. She is currently a member of the California Office of Privacy Protection’s Advisory Council and a co-chair of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board. She serves on the board of the California Voter Foundation and on the advisory board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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Peter Norvig
Peter Norvig is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computing Machinery. At Google Inc he was Director of Search Quality, responsible for the core web search algorithms from 2002-2005, and has been Director of Research from 2005 on. Previously he was the head of the Computational Sciences Division at NASA Ames Research Center, making him NASA's senior computer scientist. He received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Award in 2001. He has served as an assistant professor at the University of Southern California and a research faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley Computer Science Department, from which he received a Ph.D. in 1986 and the distinguished alumni award in 2006. He has over fifty publications in Computer Science, concentrating on Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Software Engineering, including the books Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (the leading textbook in the field), Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp, Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-to-Face Dialog, and Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX. He is also the author of the Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation and the world's longest palindromic sentence.
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Lawrence Oliva
Mr. Oliva is Director of Tariff Programs & Services which is the department responsible for demand response at Southern California Edison (SCE). Prior to joining SCE in early 2007, Larry had a successful 30 year career as a consultant to utility and energy companies. He founded Corepoint Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in strategic and tactical solutions for utility programs to conserve energy. Prior to Corepoint, he was a Partner in Arthur Andersen LLP’s business consulting practice where he led solution delivery to utility programs for retail electric utility restructuring and wholesale market redesign. Also, he was a Director of Putnam, Hayes and Bartlett, Inc. an international economics and strategic consulting firm. He holds a B.S. Civil Engineering, with honors from Southern Methodist University. He was awarded a Professional Engineer’s license in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Kirsten Olsen
Kirsten Olsen joined Google.org in July 2006 and serves as a Program Manager on the Climate and Energy team. Prior to joining Google.org, Kirsten was a Senior Associate at Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), where she advised large corporate clients on integrating social and environmental priorities into their core operations and supply chains. She previously served as the Membership Director for Net Impact - a network of MBAs using market-based solutions to create a more just and sustainable world - where she doubled membership by leading the organization's international expansion efforts. Kirsten's work in the public sector include positions in Accenture's Government Consulting Practice and in the White House Office of Political Affairs. She holds an MBA and certificate of Public Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.S. from Georgetown's School of Foreign Service. At Stanford, Kirsten pursued her passion for using business to create social and environmental change by serving as Curriculum Chair for the 2005 Net Impact Conference on social innovation (Stanford's largest conference ever), as an MBA summer associate in HP's Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility group, and as a contributor to the Stanford Social Innovation Review.
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Reza Raji
Reza founded iControl Networks in 2003 and led its early growth and success including the recent launch of the iControl Home Security 2.0 solution. Prior to iControl, Reza was the Director of Business Development at Echelon Corporation, a leading control, automation, security and smart energy company with over 100 million smart devices deployed globally. He joined the company in 1991 as one of the early employees and was involved in its first product launch, growth of the customer base to over 4,000, reaching profitability and a successful IPO in 1998. Prior to Echelon, Reza worked at IBM for four years as a development engineer as well as a member of an IBM Fellow group. Reza has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Consumer Electronics Association's Home Networking and IT Division as well as a Founding Board Member of the UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) Steering Committee. Reza holds two US patents. He received a BSEE from State University of New York at Stony Brook and a MSEE from Cornell University.
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Henry Rowen
Henry S. Rowen is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a professor of Public Policy and Management emeritus at the Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and a senior fellow emeritus of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Rowen is an expert on international security, economic development, and high tech industries in the U.S. and Asia. His current research focuses on the rise of Asia in high technologies. In 2004-05, Rowen served on the Presidential Commission on the Intelligence of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. From 2001-04, he served on the Secretary of Defense Policy Advisory Board. Rowen was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the U.S. Department of Defense from 1989 to 1991. He was also chairman of the National Intelligence Council from 1981 to 1983. Rowen served as president of the RAND Corporation from 1967 to 1972 and was assistant director, U.S. Bureau of the Budget, from 1965 to 1966. Rowen earned a bachelors degree in industrial management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949 and a masters in economics from Oxford University in 1955.
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Martha Russell
Dr. Martha Russell is Associate Director of Media X at Stanford University, a membership-based, interdisciplinary research center focused on human use of advanced communication technologies. From consumer issues at The Pillsbury Company and Coca-Cola to technology leadership and information sciences for companies such as Nortel, Control Data, 3M and Honeywell, Martha’s background spans a range of marketing, innovation and technology transfer endeavors. She has led research programs at the University of Minnesota and The University of Texas at Austin and has consulted internationally on technology innovation for regional development. Dr. Russell was founder and advisor to Clickin® Research, Inc., a market research consultancy that for two decades combined sound market research practices with leading edge processes and technologies for data collection, analysis and reporting. Studies conducted by Clickin® provided solid insights that reduced risks and provided actionable results to build and sustain relationships – between organizations, between individuals and their organizations, between people, and between people and their brands. Dr. Russell is a Senior Research Fellow at the Human Sciences and Technology Advanced Research (H*STAR) Institute at Stanford University and also at the Institute for Innovation, Creativity and Capital (IC2) at The University of Texas at Austin and serves on the advisory board of the Journal of Interactive Advertising. She has produced award-winning educational films; her presentations and articles on technology transfer have been translated into Chinese, Hungarian, and Italian. A photographer and flutist, Martha has authored several cookbooks and serves on the Boards of several organizations emphasizing music, arts and programs for at-risk children.
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Linda Schuck
Linda Schuck is a Senior Advisor at CIEE. She has twenty-five years of experience working on energy, technology commercialization and climate change issues. Currently she is working with CIEE to expand behavior and decision research and its use in energy policy and technology commercialization. She came to CIEE from Stanford University where she directed the California Climate Change Project, an inter-university collaboration to facilitate the use of research in the design, adoption and implementation of strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in California. She has held managerial positions at the US Department of Energy, PG&E and the Alliance to Save Energy and has served as a management consultant to the California Energy Commission, Southern California Edison, Bonneville Power Administrations, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, PG&E and numerous other organizations. Ms. Schuck has extensive experience managing social science-based research (program/evaluation research, marketing/customer/advertising/brand research) and conducting experimentally designed programs. She founded the Utility Customer Research Network, served on the advisory board of the International Energy Program Evaluation Conference and on the organizing committee for ACEEE Summer Study. She also works on clean technology commercialization and serves on the Advisory Board of the Environmental Business Cluster, a clean energy technology incubator. She has an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and MA in Environmental Education from Antioch Graduate School and a BA from Stanford University.
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Matt Smith
As the VP of Marketing, Matt Smith crafts and executes the business, marketing, and channel strategies for Greenbox Technology. Matt has over thirteen years of startup business experience in the home computer, consumer electronics, broadcast video, and internet music industries. He is the former Vice President of Product Marketing at Liquid Audio where he helped establish the market for digital music in the United States. Prior to joining Liquid Audio, he spent ten years with Sony Electronics Inc, where he held various product marketing and management positions. Most recently, he served as the Director of Marketing for the launch of the VAIO Personal Computer business where he led the firm from startup to breakeven during the first three years of business operations. Matthew holds an MBA in Sustainable Management from the Presidio School of Management, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh.
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Marc Solomon
Marc joined Positive Energy with more than 10 years of consumer marketing experience from Capital One where he held various leadership roles in direct marketing and product development. Most recently he was VP of Enterprise Marketing Strategy where he focused on building deeper customer relationships through cross-sell and Internet marketing strategies. Prior to this role, Marc was VP of Upmarket Card Marketing Strategy and was responsible for direct marketing programs to acquire new customers. Earlier in his career at Capital One Marc led the development and growth of the company's miles and cash rewards credit card loyalty programs. Prior to Capital One and business school, Marc was an associate at Booz-Allen & Hamilton in the Energy and Chemicals Group where he consulted to major electric utilities. He specialized in building analytic models to forecast regional energy prices and financial impacts to shareholders and ratepayers. Marc Solomon received his B.S.E. in Operations Research, magna cum laude, from Princeton University and his M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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James L. Sweeney
James (Jim) Sweeney, is Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency; Professor of Management Science and Engineering; Senior Fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research; Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace; and Senior Fellow of the Stanford Institute for International Studies. His professional activities focus on economic policy and analysis, particularly in energy, natural resources, and the environment. At Stanford he has served as chairman of the Department of Engineering-Economic Systems, chairman of the Department of Engineering-Economic Systems and Operations Research, Director of the Energy Modeling Forum, Chairman of the Institute for Energy Studies, and Director of the Center for Economic Policy Research (now the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research). In the early 1970's he was Director of the Office of Energy Systems Modeling and Forecasting of the U.S. Federal Energy Administration. He was a founding member of the International Association for Energy Economics, co-editor of the Journal Resource and Energy Economics, and vice-president for publications of the International Association for Energy Economics. He is a Senior Fellow of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics and a Fellow of the California Council on Science and Technology. He is on the National Advisory Council of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and a member of Governor Schwarzenegger's Council of Economic Advisors. He holds a B.S. degree from MIT in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Engineering-Economic Systems.
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Tom Turrentine
Tom Turrentine is Director of the new CEC PIER Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Research Center and Research Anthropologist at the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis. For the past 20 years, Tom has been applying methods and theory from anthropology to guide research on potential consumer response to alternative fuels, vehicle technologies, road systems, and policies with environmental benefits. His most recent projects have been studies of consumers response to fuel economy and hybrid electric vehicles. He current projects include studies of consumer response to Plug-in Hybrid vehicles, and new types of energy use instrumentation in vehicles.
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Elizabeth Van DenBurgh
Elizabeth Van Denburgh is a utility and customer-centric process consultant with 26 years of experience advising companies. She is focused on defining/refining strategies and establishing the customer-centric process tactics and measurement frameworks to achieve them. She is a CPA and early in her career focused on financial and operational processes’ customer requirements and supporting performance measurement. She has worked extensively in the service sector including: utilities, entertainment, insurance, health care, energy, engineering, not-for-profit and government entities. With her promotion to Principal at Ernst & Young, she focused on the utilities industry working to help achieve company strategies. She is now focused on using customer-centric processes to assist utilities to plan, develop and/or implement Smart Meter/Smart House/Customer Enabling technology to meet energy efficiency, demand response, revenue recovery and customer satisfaction objectives.
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Edward Vine
Ed is the Manager of the Environmental Program at the California Institute for Energy and Environment (CIEE). Ed is also a Staff Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and he has been involved in the evaluation of energy efficiency programs and technology performance measurement for 30 years. He provides technical assistance to the California Public Utility Commission on evaluation and program-related issues on energy efficiency, demand response, renewable energy, and climate change. Ed has been involved in behavioral energy issues since the mid-1970s when he conducted surveys of people living “off the grid” in Mendocino County, in addition to his surveys of members of the Northern California Solar Energy Association as part of a study of “deviancy” and “social movements.” Ed received his B.S. in Environmental Studies from Middlebury College and a M.S and Ph.D. in Human Ecology at UC Davis.
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Greg Walton
Greg Walton is an assistant professor of social psychology at Stanford University. Much of his research examines the role of social belonging in academic motivation and achievement, and the psychological origins of, and remedies for, group differences in academic achievement. One intervention he conducted to sustain a sense of belonging among first-year college students raised the grades of ethnic minority students even years later. Other work examines how psychological threats cause test scores and classroom grades to underestimate the true ability of ethnic minority students and, in quantitive fields, women. In addition to his academic research, he served for a year as a Congressional Fellow in the Office of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) in the United States Senate, where he worked primarily on issues relating to children and education.
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Jeremy Welland
Jeremy serves a Principal Regulatory Analyst at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and focuses on the measurement and evaluation of Demand Response Programs, under PG&E’s Smart Energy Web Department. Prior to joining PG&E, Jeremy designed global employee survey studies as a project director with Towers Perrin human capital consultancy and also worked as a leadership consultant in Ann Arbor, MI. Jeremy has advised the senior leaders of Abbott Vascular, American Express, AT&T, Chevron, Deloitte & Touche, Ford, Mattel, Osram Opto Semiconductors, Pfizer, Sony Electronics, University of Michigan Football Team, and Young Presidents Organization. As analyst at the Research Center for Group Dynamics, Jeremy worked with multinational teams on developing longitudinal hierarchical linear models of human behavior. Jeremy’s interests in technology and behavioral economics started with a business development grant from Zell Lurie Entrepreneurial Institute at the Ross School of Business. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor and holds a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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John Weyant
Weyant came to Stanford in 1977, primarily to help develop the Energy Modeling Forum. Prof. Weyant was formerly a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Operations Research, a member of the Stanford International Energy Project and a Fellow in the U.S.-Northeast Asia Forum on International Policy. He is currently an adviser to the U.S. Department of Energy, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. His current research is focused on global climate change, energy security, corporate strategy analysis, and Japanese energy policy. He is on the editorial boards of The Energy Journal, and Petroleum Management. His national society memberships include the American Economics Association, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Econometric Society, International Association of Energy Economists, Mathematical Programming Society, ORSA, and TIMS.
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