BTO Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings technical report series on Whole-Building Controls, Sensors, Modeling, and Analytics in 2020. Dr. Adetola was a board of governors member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Control Systems Society in 2019 and currently serves as the associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and the vice chair for the IEEE Control Systems Society’s Technical Committee on Energy Systems. She earned her PhD from Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada. She holds 10 U.S.-granted patents and has authored a book, 3 book chapters, and more than 50 journal publications and peer-reviewed conference papers.

SOMAYEH ASADI is currently a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Virginia. Before that she was an associate professor at The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State). She leads a diverse research group to advance smart, connected buildings and cities. Her research group’s work focuses on studying the performance of buildings, building systems, and occupant behavior to improve the energy performance, efficiency, and energy demand contributions of the built environment. She is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineering. Dr. Asadi received her PhD in engineering science from Louisiana State University in 2012. Her research efforts have resulted in more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, books, and 60 peer-reviewed conference papers.

ASHLEY GAULDING is a research scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), working in the field of photovoltaics (PV) for more than a decade. She leads projects in the areas of PV reliability and degradation and PV circularity (design, reuse, recycling). She is the leader of the international Photovoltaic Quality Assurance Task Force Task Group 15, which focuses on “Repair, Reuse, Recertification, and Recycling.” She was named an American Chemical Society (ACS) “Women Scientist at the Forefront of Energy Research” in 2023 and appointed to the U.S. Technical Advisory Group for the International Electrotechnical Commission in 2021. She received her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota and her PhD in materials science engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, where her research focused on investigating the electronic properties of quantum dot films for emerging PVs. She completed 1 year as a postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory synthesizing and characterizing photonic and plasmonic materials for CO₂ reduction before being awarded the Director’s Fellowship at NREL to lead a project on perovskite/quantum dot hybrid materials. While in her current position at NREL, she has co-planned multiple workshops, including the PV Reliability Workshop, PV Circularity Workshop, and the workshop “Confronting Degradation Science to Enable a Long-Lasting Clean Energy Economy.” She has also chaired multiple sessions at various society hosted conferences, including the Materials Research Society, IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, and Gordon Research Conference.

EMILY HERNDON is a senior consultant in Woolpert’s Strategic Consulting Group. Ms. Herndon has spent her career working with clients to develop strategic, long-term asset management programs. She has expertise in goal setting, policy development, strategic planning, capital investment planning, business processes development, change management, and communications. She is a member of the Institute of Asset Management, a co-chair of the National Institute of Building Science (NIBS) Facility Maintenance and Operations Council, and a Prosci Certified Change Manager. Ms. Herndon recently provided a webinar on Total Cost of Ownership for NIBS and presented with the Department of State on data-informed decision-making at the 2022 North American Institute of Asset Management Conference.

GREGORY HUDAS is currently the Department of Defense (DoD) program manager for Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Innovation Institute (DoD Manufacturing USA Network). He also serves as a senior research scientist for the U.S. Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center-Ground Vehicle Robotics Group. He provides technical expertise and strategic support to Army senior leadership and DoD senior leadership for autonomy, artificial intelligence (AI), and robotics technologies in such applications as advanced manufacturing and mobility. Dr. Hudas also serves as a primary technical

reviewer for the Army Research Office (proposals and Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency technical proposals and efforts, and Small Business Innovative Research proposals concerning robotic and vehicle technologies. He also was a government advisor on the Defense Science Board Summer Study on Autonomy (2015). Dr. Hudas is a member of the Acquisition Corps and Level III certified in multiple areas. He received his BS and MS in electrical and computer engineering from Wayne State University and PhD in electrical and systems engineering from Oakland University in 2003. Dr. Hudas has authored/co-authored more than 40 technical journal articles and major conference papers.

WAYNE KING is an internationally recognized leader in metal AM, having worked in the field since 2011. He is a Principal ADDvisor® with The Barnes Global Advisors. He has more than 30 years of experience ranging from fundamental materials research and applied science to research management. Mr. King served as the project leader of the Accelerated Certification of Additively Manufactured Metals Project at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He has developed a deep understanding of the AM process through this work. Past work includes radiation effects, high-temperature oxidation, atomic structure of interfaces, and grain boundary engineering. He is a 2004 Distinguished Alumnus from Thiel College. Over the past 5 years, Mr. King published several papers in AM and has made several social media posts about AM.

ADE MAKINDE is currently an independent consultant in AM. Previously, he was a principal simulation engineer at VulcanForms, Inc., a manufacturer of a novel AM machine and a supplier of parts to original equipment manufacturers in the orthopedic and aerospace industries. His experience includes the application of numerical methods to optimize the additive parts build process and subsequent post-processing to meet desired property and performance requirements. He was a principal engineer at the GE Global Research Center from 1997 to 2022. While at GE, he supervised researchers in the use of finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and the development of specialized numerical and microstructural tools to optimize manufacturing processes and part design for manufacturability. He was also part of the management staff responsible for overseeing the development of analytical tools and processes to aid the design of new products and parts for all of GE’s businesses. Dr. Makinde worked closely with GE’s suppliers using analytical tools to solve time-sensitive technical issues and to ensure that yield and quality targets were met.

NABIL NASR is currently the associate provost and founding director of the Golisano Institute for Sustainability at the Rochester Institute of Technology and also the founding chief executive officer of the REMADE Institute, which is a public–private partnership (170 members) with support from DOE. Dr. Nasr also serves as an expert for the United Nations Environment Programme International Resource Panel and is a trustee of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. He previously served on two National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine boards (Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design and National Materials and Manufacturing Board). Dr. Nasr’s expertise is in the areas of sustainable manufacturing, sustainable design, life-cycle engineering, and remanufacturing engineering. He has two master’s degrees from Rutgers University and Penn State in industrial and systems engineering and a PhD in industrial engineering from Rutgers University.

ABDALLA NASSAR is the vice president for Additive Manufacturing Forward Technologies at the Applied Science and Technology Research Organization of America, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan research institute and think tank. He leads initiatives to accelerate the adoption of advanced manufacturing and AM within the U.S. defense industrial base. This includes conducting enabling research, supporting supplier technology access, and fostering workforce development. Previously, Dr. Nassar served as the Enterprise AM Lead for John Deere, where he developed and implemented global strategies and roadmaps for metal and polymer AM. His leadership resulted in the integration of AM into production, a 50 percent reduction in in-house metal AM production costs, the publication of new internal

standards, and projected new AM product revenue in the millions. Prior to John Deere, he was a department head within the Materials Science Division of the Applied Research Laboratory and an associate research professor at Penn State. There, he managed a team of faculty, engineers, and support specialists, executing research programs (TRL 1–8) to meet sponsor needs. He also developed and taught graduate-level courses on AM principles and laser-materials interactions. Dr. Nassar has secured more than $10 million in funding for government and industry projects, published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles, and holds more than a dozen patents and invention disclosures. He is a co-author of the 2023 textbook Additive Manufacturing with Metals—Design, Processes, Materials, Quality Assurance, and Applications. Dr. Nassar received his BS and PhD degrees in engineering science and mechanics from Penn State in 2008 and 2012, respectively. His contributions to the field have been recognized with awards such as the 2020 Freeform and AM Excellence (FAME) Jr. Award, the 2020 Applied Research Laboratory Research Publication award, and the 2021 Black Engineer of the Year Awards’ Modern Day Technology Leader and Science Spectrum Trailblazer awards. Additional engagements include serving as a division editor for the 2023 ASM Handbook, Volume 24A, Additive Manufacturing Design and Applications, severing as a co-lead on the 2023 Army Research Laboratory AM Tech Forecasting virtual workshop, and as a panelist and speaker at the 2023 National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Workshop on Empowering Small and Medium Size Enterprises Through Effective AM Data Management.

RALPH NUZZO is the G.L. Clark Professor of Chemistry Emeritus (as of 2022) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author or co-author of more than 350 peer-reviewed papers and 48 awarded U.S. patents. He joined the Illinois faculty in 1991, where he also held an appointment as a professor of materials science and engineering. In 2014, he was appointed as an affiliated member of the Chemistry Faculty at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He is currently a faculty associate in applied physics and materials science at the California Institute of Technology, where he served as the director of the Department of Energy Light-Materials Interactions in Energy Conversion Energy Frontier Research Center. He also was appointed as a faculty visitor in chemistry at Harvard University in 2022. Professor Nuzzo received an AB with high honors and highest distinction in chemistry from Rutgers College in 1976 and earned a PhD in organic chemistry from MIT in 1980. He accepted the position of member of technical staff in materials research at Bell Laboratories in 1980, where he was named a Distinguished Member of the Staff in Research in 1987. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He is a named fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, ACS, the American Vacuum Society, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was named the Kavli Laureate in Nanotechnology in 2022. His other awards include the Forschungspreis of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, co-recipient of the George E. Smith Award of IEEE, co-recipient of the Wall Street Journal Innovators Award for Semiconductors, and the Adamson Award of ACS.

CHINEDUM (CHI) OKWUDIRE is a professor of mechanical engineering and a Miller Faculty Scholar at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining the University of Michigan in 2011, he was the mechatronic systems optimization team leader at DMG Mori USA. His research is focused on exploiting knowledge at the intersection of machine design, control, and computing to boost the performance of manufacturing automation systems at low cost. Dr. Okwudire has received a number of awards and recognitions, including the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, the Young Investigator Award from the International Symposium on Flexible Automation, the Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from SME, the Ralph Teetor Educational Award from SAE International, the SME Education Award, and the Russell Severance Springer Visiting Professorship from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Okwudire received his PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of British Columbia in 2009. He previously served on the 2022 National Academies’ Committee on Options for a National Plan for Smart Manufacturing and on the 2021 Committee on

Strengthening the Talent for National Defense: Infusing Advanced Manufacturing in Engineering Education.

ZHENG O’NEILL is the J. Mike Walker ‘66 Associate Professor in the J. Mike Walker ‘66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University and a registered Professional Engineer. She was an assistant professor/associate professor at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, from 2013 to 2019. Dr. O’Neill was a principal investigator (PI) at the United Technologies Research Center (UTRC), where she led a multi-million-dollar industry and university consortium in the development and implementation of scalable modeling and control solutions for energy-efficient HVAC systems from 2006 to 2013. She is an ASHRAE fellow and International Building Performance Simulation Association fellow, current vice chair and incoming chair of ASHRAE TC 7.5 Smart Building Systems, and on the editorial board of the Journal of Building Performance Simulation and an associate editor of ASHRAE’s Science and Technology for the Built Environment. She currently serves as a member of ASHRAE’s Research Administration Committee, which oversees and coordinates all ASHRAE research activities. Dr. O’Neill has 25 years of industry and academic experience in building sciences and has been the PI/co-PI for projects totaling $30 million since 2014. Her current research portfolio emphasizes and exploits intelligent building operations with advanced sensors and controls; smart ventilation; grid-interactive efficient buildings; smart, resilient, and connected community; heat pump technologies; and well-being in the built environment. Dr. O’Neill has published more than 195 journal articles and conference papers. She received her PhD in mechanical engineering from the Building and Environmental Thermal Systems Research Group at Oklahoma State University in 2004.

MELISSA ORME is the vice president for additive manufacturing at The Boeing Company, where she leads AM activities ranging from engineering and manufacturing of new designs that differentiate Boeing products, to developing new materials and processes, to establishing the digital thread of the end-to-end values stream. Dr. Orme is a renowned pioneer, innovator, and leader in AM, where her seminal work spans three decades and has resulted in 15 U.S. patents and numerous peer-reviewed journal articles. She has a rich and diverse professional background, having begun her career in academia where she rose to the rank of full professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, Irvine. There, she established globally recognized research laboratories in the field that is now termed “additive manufacturing,” where she developed methods for controlled electrostatically charged and deflected molten metal droplet deposition for precision manufacturing, direct writing of electronic components, and precise powder production. Subsequently, she transitioned from academia to high-tech startups where she served as the chief technology officer of Morf3D, a company that is focused on producing and delivering flight qualified AM hardware to the aerospace industry. From Morf3D, she was recruited by Boeing to lead AM across all business units. Dr. Orme holds a PhD in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California.

PHILIP PARISI, JR., is an associate principal at MG Engineering DPC, a private consulting engineering firm in the building construction industry. He has more than 24 years of experience in plumbing and fire protection engineering and responsibilities, including office and project management, specification, and standards development for plumbing and fire protection systems. His expertise includes the design of health care facilities, life science and research laboratories, high-rise commercial and residential buildings, building repositioning, and major infrastructure upgrades. Mr. Parisi is a licensed Professional Mechanical and Fire Protection Engineer in the State of New York and 17 additional states and a U.S.G.B.C. LEED Accredited Professional passionate about water conservation, rainwater harvesting, and reuse. He is an active member and past president of the American Society of Plumbing Engineers New York City (NYC) Chapter, as well as member of the National Fire Protection Association and the Society of Fire Protection Engineers. Mr. Parisi served as an adjunct professor at the New York University School for Continuing and Professional Studies and as a guest professor at the Columbia University School for Professional Studies teaching plumbing and fire protection design in the

construction industry. He graduated from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 2000. He is currently the chair of the NYC Plumbing Code Revision Committee and for International Code Council (ICC) Standard 805 Rainwater Harvesting Systems Committee and is the vice chair of the ICC 815 Sizing Water Distribution, Sanitary Drainage and Vent Piping Systems committee.

MICHAEL POUCHAK currently works as a research and development engineer, serving as a systems architect and engineering staff for Honeywell International in the Building Automation, Buildings Management Systems group. Before Honeywell, he worked on high-speed emitter-coupled logic (ECL) interfaces, ECL automated test equipment (ATE) computer design, ATE/PC network communications, a Unix Host controller server, data storage hardware/software design interface, electrical hardware design engineering, and network computer systems for the ATE industry. Mr. Pouchak has contributed significantly to the art and science of HVAC and has been issued more than 26 U.S. and international patents and products related to air HVAC systems, DDC controls, and hydronic controls for commercial buildings. He has substantial expertise in the development of building automation controls and high-volume, low-cost embedded software development of commercial unitary HVAC zone controllers, including VAV and CVAHU controllers. Mr. Pouchak received the Dick Fitzgerald Technical Award, the Honeywell Excellence in Innovation award (division level), and the Big “H” award for excellence in high-value product development. He is a senior member of IEEE, a fellow of ASHRAE, and is currently the president of the ASHRAE College of Fellows. He is the recipient of the Exceptional Service Award and the Distinguished Service Award and has had a wide range of society committee leadership roles. He has served as the chair of the technical committees TC 1.4 Control Theory and Application and TC 1.5 Emerging Computing Application and serves on the ASHRAE Technical Council and the Residential Buildings Committee as a voting member. Mr. Pouchak has a BEE from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and an MS in software engineering from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.

CURTIS A. RICHARDSON is a technical fellow at Spirit AeroSystems in the area of automation and the enterprise distinctive capability leader for Industry 4.0. In these roles, he leads technical oversight of strategy for automation and digital manufacturing capabilities at the corporate level. With more than 25 years of experience developing and deploying automation technology for production environments at Boeing and now Spirit, Mr. Richardson has worked with a diverse assortment of aircraft manufacturing processes. These span various levels of fabrication, assembly, and repair for both metal and composite material systems. Throughout most of his career, he has actively engaged with a broad array of consortia and similar collaborative organizations linking industry, academia, and government. He served on the Robotic Industries Association board of directors for almost 10 years and has been an active member of the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Innovation Institute’s Stakeholder Executive Council for 7 years. In 2022, he was recognized as SAE’s Thomas H. Speller award winner for significant career contributions to manufacturing processes and methodologies related to automated fastening and was named a 2023 ARM Institute Champion. Mr. Richardson received his BS in aerospace engineering from Wichita State University in 1998 and his MS in industrial engineering from Wichita State University in 2003. He was a contributor to the 2013 edition of the Roadmap for US Robotics—From Internet to Robotics and has been a regular presenter at a range of professional and academic conferences, including SAE Aerotech, the International Federation of Robotics’ International Symposium on Robotics, the Defense Manufacturing Conference, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Science and Technology Research Symposium on Digital Twin Technology Development and Application. Mr. Richardson is also the owner of the Industrial Robotics LinkedIn group with more than 130,000 members.

BALAJI SANTHANAKRISHNAN is an experienced sustainability leader with more than 30 years of experience and has developed hundreds of strong customer relationships by understanding their environmental challenges, desired outcomes, and success criteria while developing carbon reduction

programs. He is currently a global technical leader with IBM Sustainability Software. Before this role, he was a product manager with Siemens Building Technologies and an enterprise program manager with Johnson Controls. He has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s degree in energy management. He is a member of ASHRAE and the Association of Energy Engineers and a Certified Energy Manager from a LEED-accredited professional.

CAROLYN SEEPERSAD is the Woodruff Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Prior to her appointment at Georgia Tech, she served as the J. Mike Walker Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include design for AM, simulation-based design of materials and structures, and process innovation in AM. She is the editor-in-chief of the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. She is a member of SME’s Additive Manufacturing Technical Leadership Committee. She is the recipient of the ASME Design Automation Award, The University of Texas Regents’ Award for Outstanding Teaching, and several best paper awards from ASME and ASEE. She is the author of more than 150 peer-reviewed conference and journal publications. She received her PhD in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech, an MA/BA in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and a BS in mechanical engineering from West Virginia University.

MOHSEN SEIFI is the vice president of Global Advanced Manufacturing Programs at ASTM International, ascending to this pivotal role in 2022 after initiating his journey with the organization as the director of Additive Manufacturing Programs in 2018. With more than 13 years of enriched experience in advanced manufacturing and business development, Dr. Seifi has demonstrated exemplary leadership and technical expertise. Prior to his engagement at ASTM, he managed and contributed significantly to various research and business programs, particularly those funded by the government, showcasing his deep technical expertise and adeptness in business development. Currently, Dr. Seifi spearheads several critical programs at ASTM, including Additive Manufacturing, Robotics & Autonomous Systems, and Wohlers Associates. He guides a team of industry and technical experts in advancing ASTM’s initiatives in advanced manufacturing. His responsibilities also extend to driving standardization activities across ASTM’s technical committees related to advanced manufacturing, fostering new partnerships, and developing AM standards-related programs and services across diverse ASTM portfolios. Besides his professional commitments, Dr. Seifi serves as an adjunct faculty member at Case Western Reserve University and holds positions on several advisory boards for major advanced manufacturing programs. His scholarly contributions include co-authoring more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and amassing more than 4,500 citations. Dr. Seifi’s extensive engagement with the scientific and professional community is further highlighted by his delivery of more than 150 invited and keynote lectures at various technical meetings, industry events, and government agencies, alongside chairing numerous conferences and symposia. His profound contributions to the field have been recognized with numerous honors and awards from technical societies.

VISHALDEEP SHARMA is a research and development staff member in the Building Equipment Research Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for the past 13 years. At ORNL, he has been involved in the assessment and evaluation of low global warming potential refrigerants and refrigeration systems. He has expertise in system design optimization, refrigerant compatibility, and refrigerant fractionation analysis. He has authored and co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers, and reports. He has served as a reviewer for leading journals, including International Journal of Refrigeration, Applied Thermal Engineering, Applied Energy, and International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. Mr. Sharma is member of ASHRAE, where he is chairing the Research Subcommittee of ASHRAE 10.7 Commercial Food and Beverage Refrigeration Equipment.

LARRY M. SWEET is currently the director of engineering at the ARM Institute. He is a widely recognized robotics and automation expert, working in both commercial organizations and academia. He

provides experience in bringing emerging technologies into production by increasing their technology readiness level, concurrent with improvements in factory floor processes and workforce skills. At Amazon, he led the technology transition of all internally developed robotics and automation products from laboratory status into end-to-end systems in Amazon’s global network, responsible cumulatively for 70 percent of Amazon’s installed robotics. The ROBIN robot was deployed during the COVID-19 pandemic to meet urgent customer demand requiring field deployment at scale, concurrent with innovations of AI/machine learning algorithms, advanced manipulation, exception handling, and synchronization with mobile robot traffic flows. As the chief technology officer at Symbotic, he led the development of systems now deployed across Walmart’s network, delivering aisle-specific pallets to grocery stores, an NP-hard problem with more than 20,000 SKUs of varying dimensions, weights, compliance, and aisle assignment, while delivering cartons to palletizing cells in precise sequence by fleets of high-speed autonomous mobile robots picking orders from a multi-level storage structure. As the Frito-Lay vice president of engineering and technology, he transformed, with three industry-first inventions, 1,200 integrated automated seasoning, packaging, and case packing lines from inflexible single-SKU systems to multi-SKU capability, improving 24/7 product flows by two times. Dr. Sweet also held senior manufacturing and technology roles at ABB Industrial & Building Systems, United Technologies, GE Fanuc, and GE Corporate Research. Industry recognition includes 35 patents, the Edison Award, Manufacturing Leadership Council Outstanding Achiever Award for Supply Chain Excellence for the Symbotic system, and the IR-100 Award. For the U.S. National Roadmap for Robotics Research, Service Robotics, where he co-authored the “Real-Time Planning and Control” section. He was a founding associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation Systems. He received his PhD and MS from MIT and a BS from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a tenured faculty member and Guggenheim Foundation Fellow at Princeton University and the associate director at the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech.

G. KUMAR VENAYAGAMOORTHY is the Duke Energy Distinguished Professor of Power Engineering and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Clemson University since 2012. Prior to that, he was a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (2002–2011) and a senior lecturer in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Durban University of Technology in South Africa (1996–2002). Dr. Venayagamoorthy is the founder (2004) and director of the Real-Time Power and Intelligent Systems Laboratory. He received his PhD and MScEng in electrical engineering from the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa. He received his BEng degree with a first-class honors in electrical and electronics engineering from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University in Bauchi, Nigeria. He holds an MBA in entrepreneurship and innovation from Clemson University. In the past 30 years, Dr. Venayagamoorthy’s research has primarily emphasized the development and implementation of advanced computational methods and AI-based algorithms for smart grid applications (e.g., nonlinear modeling and control of power systems, power system optimization, predictions and forecasting of wind and solar energies, energy management systems, wide area monitoring and control systems, dynamic optimal power flow, electric vehicles, micro-grid systems, demand-response management). He has developed situational awareness and intelligence tools based on synchrophasor data for electric power control center operations and management. He is the pioneer in the development and implementation of adaptive and optimal neuroidentifiers and neurocontrollers for power systems. Indirect adaptive control and adaptive critics based optimal controllers have been implemented to control synchronous generators under normal operating conditions and disturbances on actual micro-machines. The adaptive critic control framework has been extended to other smart grid applications, including FACTS control, wide area control systems, PV energy management systems, wind farm control, and electric vehicle-to-grid transactions. Dr. Venayagamoorthy has demonstrated that distributed SmartParks (plug-in vehicles/electric vehicles parking lots) can be used as virtual FACTS devices and grid shock absorbers (damp oscillations), and with intelligent control can mitigate power system oscillations caused by dynamic operation of wind farms and system disturbances. He is an inventor of technologies for scalable computational intelligence for complex systems, energy management systems,

and dynamic stochastic optimal power flow. He is a 2004 NSF CAREER awardee, a 2007 Office of the Naval Research Young Investigator Program awardee, and a 2008 NSF Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation awardee. He led the brain2grid project funded by NSF. He has published more than 550 refereed technical articles that are cited ~24,000 times with a h-index of 70 and i10-index of more than 300. Dr. Venayagamoorthy has given more than 500 invited technical presentations, including keynotes and plenaries in more than 40 countries. He has provided research guidance and/or mentoring to more than 150 graduate and undergraduate students and post-doctoral fellows. He is a fellow of IEEE, IET (UK), the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers, and Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, and a senior member of the International Neural Network Society (INNS). He is the editor of the IEEE Press Series on Power and Energy Systems. He is also a member of the board of governors and the vice president for industry relations of INNS.

GARY WALKER is currently the vice president, Facilities and Capital Projects, at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Previously, Mr. Walker was the executive director, Facilities Infrastructure and Safety, at Stanford Health Care. He has specialized in the development and implementation of asset management and digital solutions for Owners. Mr. Walker has more than 30 years of experience as an asset manager for the built environment; as a director, advisor, and consultant at General Motors Corporation, Jacobs Engineering, DOE at the National Ignition Facility, and Stanford Health Care. He is also an active thought leader on the national and international stages being a frequent presenter of content and keynote presentations, serving in the International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee 251 for Asset Management representing the United States internationally through an American National Standards Institute–authorized, ASTM-sponsored Technical Advisory Group. In addition, Mr. Walker remains active in the industry as a member of the Institute of Asset Management and the American Society of Healthcare Engineering, and as a licensed Professional Engineer. He received his BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985.

YUNSONG XIE is currently a data scientist at the ExxonMobil Technology & Engineering Company. Prior to this position, he served in process integration engineering in Samsung Austin Semiconductor, where he supervised the semiconductor manufacturing chips for 45nm, 28nm, and 14nm node technologies. Before working at Samsung, he was a post-doctoral researcher at Argonne National Laboratory, where he conducted research on developing the next generation of wearable electronics and tracing human activity. Dr. Xie received his BA in electrical engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2009 and his PhD in physics from the University of Delaware.

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