CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges

Energy Efficiency

Vinod Narayanan

Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
UC Davis

Engineering, Energy, Boiling And Condensation, Convective Heat Transfer, Electronic Cooling, Energy Conversion, Energy Efficiency, Heat Dissipation, Heat Pipes, Heat Transfer, High Flux Thermal Management, Mechanical Engineering, Micro-evaporators, Microfluidics, Microscale Heat Transfer, Multi-phase Flow, Nanoscale Heat Transfer, Phase Change Heat Transfer, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy Utilization, Solar Thermal, Sustainable Energy, Thermal Interface Materials, Thermal Management, Thermal Systems Design, Thermodynamics

Ben Metcalf

Research Professor, City and Regional Planning
UC Berkeley

Enviromental Design, Affordable Housing, Applied Innovation, City And Regional Planning, Community Development, Energy Efficiency, Federal Housing Policy, Homelessness Policy, Housing Finance, Housing Innovation, Housing Legislation, Housing Policy, Housing Technology, Inclusive Housing, Land Use, Land Use Regulation, Mixed-income Development, Mixed-use Development, Multifamily Housing, Neighborhood Revitalization, Property Development, Public Policy, Real Estate Development, State Housing Policy, Urban Design, Urban Planning

Jae Wan Park

Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
UC Davis

Engineering, Energy And Transportation Systems, Batteries, Battery Thermal Mgmt, Electric Grid, Energy Efficiency, Fuel Cells, Green Transportation, Pem Fuel Cells

Carl Blumstein

Director, California Institute for Energy and Environment
UC Berkeley

Ciee, Behavioral Ecology; Conservation, Behavioral Energy Use, Building Energy Systems, Clean Energy Research, Climate And Energy Systems, Electricity Markets And Restructuring, Energy Efficiency, Energy Policy, Energy Program Evaluation, Public Interest Energy Funding, Regulatory And Legislative Energy Policy

Kurt Kornbluth

Assistant Adjunct Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering
UC Davis

Engineering, Renewable And Appropriate Energy Technologies, Climate Neutrality, Energy Efficiency, International Development Technology, Renewable Energy Technologies, Sustainable Systems

Alan Meier

Adjunct Professor, Environmental Science and Policy, Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and Associate Director, Energy Efficiency Center
UC Davis

Letters And Science / Research, Energy Efficiency And Behavior, Energy Demand, Energy Efficiency, Energy Use Behavior, Environmental Economics, Standby Power Reduction, Sustainable Energy Policy

Ashok Gadgil

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
UC Berkeley

Engineering, Fluid Dynamics, Biomass Cookstoves, Building Energy Systems, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Development Engineering, Drinking Water Treatment, Energy Efficiency, Environmental Engineering, Indoor Air Quality, Nonlinear System Simulation, Pollutant Transport

Paul Wright

Professor Emeritus, Mechanical Engineering and former Director of CITRIS
UC Berkeley

Engineering, 3d Printing, 3d-dispenser Printing, Additive Manufacturing, Advanced Manufacturing, Autonomous Sensors, Cyber-physical Systems, Demand Response, Design For Manufacturing, Energy Efficiency, Energy Harvesting, Energy Scavenging, Energy Storage, Energy-efficient Systems, First Responder Applications, Flexible Electronics, Intelligent Objects, Internet Of Things, Internet-based Manufacturing, Iot, Load-demand Modeling, Mechanical Engineering, Medical Products, Micro-integration, Micro-power Systems, Micro-scale Integration, Open-architecture Control, Printed Electronics, Screen-printing, Self-powered Wireless Nodes, Smart Materials, Supercapacitors, Teg, Thermoelectric Generators, Thin Film Batteries, Thin Film Solar Cells, Vibration Energy Harvesting, Wearable Sensors, Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless Sensor Systems, Wsn