Specialisation:

• Smart and Sustainable Energy/Power systems
• Smart Grids
• Renewable Energy - scaling, integration, regulation, and finance
• Energy Transition
• Digital Divide
• Innovation
• Regulation
• Finance

Major Professional Contributions:

New designs for smart grids and smart meters

Helped establish and was Technical Advisor, Smart Grid Task Force, Govt. of India

Founding Advisor, India Smart Grid Forum

Pioneering research on Future Grid and Sustainable Energy (across dozens of peer reviewed publications and books/book chapters). 

Created the first cost-benefit toolkit for electricity companies for smart meter deployment planning

Built the first real-time electricity and emissions portal for India

Consultancy Areas:

♦  Member, Global Future Council on Advanced Energy Technologies, World Economic Forum, 2018-19

♦  Experts Committee/invitee, Energy Transitions Commission (ETC) India Project 2018-19

♦  Clean Energy Finance Forum (CEFF) (Co-Chair Working Group 4: Policy)

♦  Smart Grid Task Force, Govt. of India (Technical Advisor, 2010 - 2015)

♦  India Smart Grid Forum (Founding Advisor, 2010 to present)

♦  Tech.  Advisory Board, Southern California Edison “SmartConnect” ($1.2B Smart Grid project) (2005-08)

♦  Digital Energy Solutions Consortium (DESC) India (Co-Chair then Chair 2009-12)

♦  UN ICT Task Force WG on Enabling Environment / Low-Cost Connectivity Access (Vice-Chairman, 2004-06)

♦  IEEE’s Society on Social Implications of Technology (Board Member/Treasurer, 2009-11)

♦  BESCOM, Technology Innovation Council & Smart Grid Technical Committee (April 2015 onwards)

Sector Associated With:

• Electricity Systems
• Smart Grids
• Smart Energy
• Renewable Energy
• Electric Vehicles
• Smart Meters
• Energy supply
• Energy regulation, pricing, and policy
• Sustainability
• Climate Change

Sectors Interested to Offer Service:

Smart Grids

Smart Cities

Sustainability

Energy Transition

Clean Energy / Clean Tech

Climate Change

Connectivity and Access

Professional Experience

Positions (excl. Advisory):

·   CSEP (formerly Brookings India / Brookings Institution)                                                               Dec. 2013 – present

Sr. Fellow                                                                                                                                                             Sep. 2020 – present

Fellow (Brookings/Brookings India)                                                                                                         Feb. 2015 – August 2020

Fellow (non-resident) (Brookings/Brookings India)                                                                            Dec. 2013 – Jan. 2015

·   Carnegie Mellon University                                                                                                                      August 1995 - present

Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Engineering & Public Policy                                                                  April 2012 - present

Senior Systems Scientist, ISR, School of Computer Science                                                             July 2006 – March 2012

[Associate Research Professor]                                                                                                           (on leave 2009-12)

Program in Computation, Organizations, and Society (COS)                                                              

      Advisory Board, TechBridgeWorld                                                                                                           Feb. 2009 – 2013

      Associate Director, TechBridgeWorld                                                                                                      July 2004 – Jan. 2009

      Systems Scientist, ISR, COS

[Assistant Research Professor]                                                                                                           July 2002 – June 2006

      Research Engineer, Department of Engineering & Public Policy                                                    July 2002 – May 2009

            (Courtesy Appointment)                                                                                                                  

      Research Engineer, Dept. of Engineering & Public Policy                                                                 Jan. 2001 – July 2002

      Coordinator and Senior Technology Architect, IUNet Project                                                        Oct. 1998 – Dec. 2001

         Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Engineering & Public Policy                                                            Oct. 1998 – Dec.2000

     ·   Consultant, [fortune 500 company’s philanthropy arm – name withheld]                                                           

Studies on analyzing and overcoming energy shortfalls                                                              Dec. 2013 – March 2014

Helped create developing country energy strategy                                                                      April 2012 – June 2012

·   Center for Study of Science, Technology, and Policy (CSTEP), Bangalore

Program Director (prev.) /Principal Research Scientist                                                                 Nov. 2008 – March 2012

Senior Fellow                                                                                                                                                Nov. 2005 – Nov. 2008

·   Visiting Scientist, Indira Gandhi Center, Kalpakkam, Govt. of India                                          May 1996 – Aug. 1996

·   Chair, Meiklejohn Advising Program, Brown University                                                                Aug. 1994 – May 1995

·   Student Researcher, Semiconductor fabrication and testing, Brown University                  Aug. 1992 – Aug. 1993

Keywords

Smart Grids

Sustainable energy

Clean Energy / Clean Tech

System Design

Standards

Techno-economic analysis