Alice M. Agogino, PhD, is the Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering and directs several computational and design research and instructional laboratories at UC Berkeley. She has served in a number of administrative positions at UC Berkeley including Associate Dean of Engineering and Faculty Assistant to the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost in Educational Development and Technology. Prof. Agogino also served as Director for Synthesis, an NSF-sponsored coalition of eight universities with the goal of reforming undergraduate engineering education, and continues as PI for the NEEDS and SMETE.ORG digital libraries of courseware in science, mathematics, engineering and technology. Prof. Agogino received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of New Mexico (1975), M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering (1978) from the University of California at Berkeley and Ph.D. from the Department of Engineering-Economic Systems at Stanford University (1984). She has authored over 120 scholarly publications in many areas including: intelligent energy systems; MEMS/mechatronics design methods; intelligent learning systems; multi-objective and strategic product design; probabilistic modeling; intelligent control and manufacturing. She has won teaching awards, best paper and research awards, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
David Auslander, ScD, is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Dean for Research and Student Affairs at UC Berkeley. His research interests include automatic control system design, mini-microcomputer system bioengineering, modeling and simulation of dynamic systems, and process control. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 papers and six books on automatic control. He received the Louis Levy best paper award from the Franklin Institute twice, and is a Fellow of ASME. He is also the co-founder of Berkeley Process Control, a Bay Area company specializing in industrial motion control and process control software.
Charles C. Benton is a Professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley. He received a B.Arch. degree from Tulane University and a Master of Architecture in Advanced Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His recent work addresses the assessment of daylighted buildings, the field evaluation of thermal comfort, technology transfer for practicing architects, and curriculum materials development. Prof. Benton is a registered architect, a technical consultant for the PG&E Energy Center, and a member of ASES and SBSE.
Carl Blumstein, PhD, is the Director of the California Institute for Energy and Environment (CIEE). One of the founders of CIEE, he has 30 years of experience in energy research and R&D management. He served for 10 years as the Associate Director of CIEE before becoming the Director in 2002. As Associate Director he represented UC in the regulatory and legislative proceedings that lead to the establishment of the California Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program. He has worked with the PIER program in a variety of capacities since the program began in 1998. He also has a research appointment at the UC Energy Institute where he has been an Energy Policy Analyst since 1981. Dr. Blumstein is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Consortium for Energy Efficiency, and a member of the Gas Technology Institute's Public Interest Advisory Committee. He served on the Board of Governors of the California Power Exchange from 1997 to 2003. He has a BS from Reed College, an MS from San Diego State University, and a PhD from the UC San Diego in Chemistry.
Richard de Dear, PhD, completed his graduate studies on adaptive thermal comfort at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, under the supervision of Prof Andris Auliciems. Upon completion in 1985 he took up a postdoctoral fellowship at the Technical University of Denmark under the supervision of Prof. Ole Fanger where he worked on transient thermal comfort. In 1987 Richard began his teaching career at the National University of Singapore where he continued his research interests in thermal comfort in a tropical context. In 1991 he transferred to Macquarie Univerisity, Sydney Australia, where he currently teaches in the Division of Environmental and Life Sciences. Over the last two decades Richard has built up a diverse range of expertise and publications in the area of human thermal comfort, but his most widely cited work is that performed in the last 10 years in collaboration with colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley in the area of adaptive comfort models and standards.
Rick Diamond, PhD, is a staff scientist and deputy group leader of the Energy Performance of Buildings Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research has focused on user interactions with the built environment, including post occupancy evaluations of housing, schools and work environments. His current research activity includes understanding myths about energy, people and buildings and providing design assistance to communities and Federal agencies on improving the energy performance of their buildings. He studied visual and environmental studies at Harvard College and architecture at the University of California at Berkeley, where he received his Masters degree and Ph.D. He has been on the faculty at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, the California College of Arts and Crafts, and as a visiting professor at UC Berkeley, where he is currently teaching a seminar on healthy buildings.
William Fisk holds an MS in mechanical engineering. He is a staff scientist and Department Head of the Indoor Environment Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is also the Group Leader for The Commercial Building Ventilation and IAQ Control Group within the Department. He has conducted research on indoor environments since 1980, has authored or co-authored approximately 100 related journal or conference papers. His research interests include indoor pollutant exposure, sick building syndrome, advanced ventilation technologies, use of tracer gases to study ventilation and indoor air flow, indoor air quality control technologies, indoor radon, and the relationship between indoor environmental quality and health and productivity. Mr. Fisk is a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee for the journal Indoor Air (1989-present) and is a frequent member of committees and work groups established to advise EPA, DOE, and NAS on research priorities in the ventilation and indoor air quality field. He also serves on the steering committees and advisory committees for IAQ conferences.
Harrison S. Fraker, Jr., FAIA, is Dean of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design (CED). He received both an M.F.A. degree and BA degree in Architecture from Princeton University. Prior to his Berkeley appointment in 1996, Prof. Fraker was Head and Dean of the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota from 1984-1995. He has previously served on the architecture faculties of the University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie-Mellon University, and Princeton University. He was a founding partner of the Princeton Energy Group in 1976 through which he participated in several innovative building energy research projects and directed a USDOE-funded demonstration program for energy conservation and passive solar building design. In addition to energy research, he has maintained a prize-winning practice in building and urban design.
Victoria Garcia jointed the CBE team in 2006 as the Management Services Officer for the Center for Environmental Design Research (CEDR). Victoria has over 10 years of leadership experience with the University of California in the areas of planning, human resources, payroll, accounting, budget, contracts and grants, academic personnel, technology transfer/intellectual property, space management, computer applications and supervision. Before joining CBE, Victoria managed the Accounting Unit at the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) which is a large campus organized research unit. Annual expenditures controlled by the SSL accounting unit total approximately $35 million in federal and state grants and contracts. Prior to this, she was the office manager at the Department of Anthropology.
Philip Haves, PhD, leads the Commercial Building Systems Group in the Building Technologies Department of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received a BA in physics from Oxford University and a PhD in radio astronomy from Manchester University. He turned to research in building physics 29 years ago. His current work includes the development of computer simulation tools to support the design of low-energy cooling systems and the development of automated fault detection and diagnosis tools for use in building commissioning and performance monitoring. He is a Fellow of ASHRAE and, until recently, was President of the U.S. chapter of the International Building Performance Simulation Association.
Judith Heerwagen, PhD, is a psychologist whose research and writing have focused on sustainability, workplace, and the psychosocial value of place. Prior to starting her own business, J.H. Heerwagen & Associates, Inc., Dr. Heerwagen was a staff scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and a research faculty member at the University of Washington, College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Her work at both PNNL and the University of Washington focused on the human factors of sustainable design. She is the author or coauthor of numerous articles and book chapters on workplace design, creativity, biophilia, and habitability. Her current and recent clients come from both private and public sector organizations, including the U.S. General Services Administration, the City of Seattle, Boeing, Fidelity Investments, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and Herman Miller. She was recently selected as a 2005 environmental champion by Interiors and Sources Magazine.
Ron Hofmann is a Senior Advisor at CIEE. He played a leading role in establishing the PIER Program's Demand Response Enabling Technologies program at CIEE and he continues to work with the PIER Program on research related to demand response. Mr. Hofmann has extensive experience in developing new businesses and markets in the energy sector from the ground up. Currently, he sits on one Board and is an advisor to several emerging energy-related technology companies. Over the past 40 years, Mr. Hofmann has started several successful enterprises. He was a co-founder in 1983 (and the original CEO for 12 years) of EnergyLine Systems, Inc. EnergyLine, now a division of S&C Electric, is a provider of communicating automation solutions for applications on both sides of the power revenue meter. Mr. Hofmann has a mechanical engineering degree from the University of California in Berkeley and did post-graduate studies in thermo sciences at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. In his career, he held technical, marketing, sales, and management positions in large and small companies.
John Huggins is Executive Director of the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center, an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center. He came to UC Berkeley in August 2002, from the semiconductor and microelectronics world, where he directed advanced product development in telecommunications and computer communications for Intel, Silicon Systems, and TDK Semiconductor. He has entrepreneurial and CEO experience, both in spin-out and start-up companies. He was awarded the TDK Corporate Development Award for his work in founding and growing TDK Systems to $120M worldwide in six years. He has MSEE and BSEE degrees from the University of Minnesota. He founded and chaired the Communications Committee of the PCMCIA standards organization; has been Associate Editor and Guest Editor of the Journal of Solid State Circuits, and long-time member of the International Solid State Circuits Conference technical program committees.
Dwight M. Jaffee, PhD, has been Professor of Finance and Real Estate in the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley since 1991. He previously taught for many years in the Economics Department of Princeton University, where he served as Vice Chairman. He received his PhD in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At UC Berkeley, Professor Jaffee currently serves as co-chairman of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics and as the Academic Director of the St. Petersburg University-UC Berkeley School of Management program. He often consults with the World Bank on its Technical Assistance to Russia program and is a co-author of a recent World Bank report on Russian housing markets. He is also currently a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. His research covers such diverse areas as real estate finance, catastrophe insurance, the California economy, credit rationing and bank lending, and international housing finance systems.
Randy H. Katz, PhD, received his BA degree, with highest honors, in Computer Science and Mathematics from Cornell University in 1976. He received the MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978 and 1980 respectively. After a year in industry, he joined the Computer Sciences Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an Assistant Professor. He moved to the University of California, Berkeley in 1983, where he now holds the United Microelectronics Corporation Distinguished Professorship in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He also serves as chair of the EECS Department. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM. From January 1993 through December 1994, Katz served the Clinton Administration in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Professor Katz is a leading researcher in computer system design and implementation. His recent research is focused on wireless communications, mobile computing applications, collaboration technology, and video archive systems.
Paul Linden, PhD, received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge, and held several posts at that institution including serving as Assistant Director of Research in Fluid Mechanics. Since 1998 he has held the position of Blasker Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, and serves as chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC San Diego. Paul's primary research activities involve laboratory and theoretical modeling of flows in the disciplines of geophysical, environmental and industrial fluid dynamics. He has lectured extensively and contributes regularly to numerous scientific panels and editorial boards. He is currently collaborating with CBE on the California Energy Commission PIER project to create a UFAD module for EnergyPlus.
Trista Little completed her BS in Conservation and Resources Studies at the University of California Berkeley in 2005. In her employment at the University of California Santa Barbara, she helped certify the first LEED-EB project in the UC system. The project, Girvetz Hall, achieved a LEED Silver rating in February 2006. She is currently working at UC Berkeley's Green Building Research Center documenting Best Practice Case Studies on the UC and CSU campuses.
William W Nazaroff, PhD, is a Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. He earned his PhD degree in Environmental Engineering Science at Cal Tech after completing a BA in Physics and a Master of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley. Prof. Nazaroff's research focuses on understanding the factors that govern the concentrations and fates of indoor air pollutants. His research group is also studying source-receptor relationships for characterizing human exposure to air pollutants. He is an active member of the American Association for Aerosol Research and the International Academy of Indoor Air Sciences.
Kristofer S.J. Pister, PhD, received his B.A. from UCSD in 1982, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1989 and 1992. From 1992 to 97 he was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA. He joined the faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley in 1996. He has served on a number of Defense advisory groups, and is currently a member of the Jasons. In 1996 Dr. Pister coined the phrase "Smart Dust" to describe his work in ubiquitous wireless sensor networks. From 2003 through 2005 he was CEO and then CTO of Dust Networks, a company that he founded to commercialize the university research on Smart Dust. As of January 2005 he is back full time at UCB, continuing his research on the next generation of wireless sensor networks for building and industrial automation.
Jan M. Rabaey, PhD, is the Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. His current research interests include the conception and implementation of next-generation integrated wireless systems. This includes the analysis and optimization of communication algorithms and networking protocols, the study of low-energy implementation architectures and circuits, and the supporting design automation environments. He is the author of "Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective", a state-of-the art textbook on digital circuit design. He is also the editor/author of "Low Power Design Methodologies" and Power Aware Design Methodologies, two Kluwer Academic Publisher books that present an in-depth coverage on low-power design ranging from the technology up to the system level. Jan is currently the scientific co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC). as well as the director of the Gigascale Silicon Research Center (GSRC). From 1999 till 2002, he served as the associate chair of the Berkeley EECS department.
Charles M. Salter, PE, President of Charles M. Salter Assoc., Inc., has been a research affiliate with CBE since its founding. He received his degree in Structural Engineering from Tufts University, a degree from MIT in Art and Design, and an MBA from Boston College. During the last 27 years, Mr. Salter has been Project Manager of a wide range of consulting work in the areas of architectural acoustics, noise reduction engineering, and environmental noise impact. He has lectured in acoustics since 1973, and is Adjunct Professor in the Architecture Department at UC Berkeley. He is also a registered Engineer in California and Nevada.
Iris D. Tommelein, PhD, is Professor in Construction Engineering and Management, in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. She received a PhD in Civil Engineering, an MS in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), and an MS in Civil Engineering (Construction Engineering and Management) from Stanford University. Her undergraduate degree is in Civil Engineering/Architecture from the Free University in Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). Prof. Tommelein is interested in principles of project-based production management, and is a research associate of the Lean Construction Institute (www/leanconstruction.org/). Her research focuses on specialty contractors how they can become integral participants in design-build teams to increase product and process performance. Prof. Tommelein is an expert on construction site logistics, materials management, and supply-chain management. Her work involves computer-aided design, planning, scheduling, simulation, and visualization of construction processes, as well as e-business systems.
Richard Tsina, PhD, is retired Chair of Continuing Education in Engineering, and former Assistant Dean for Professional Studies at University of California Extension, Berkeley. Among his achievements at Berkeley have been the development of the South Bay Program in Silicon Valley, the Berkeley Summer Engineering Institute, the Oxford-Berkeley Summer Engineering Program and the 1993 Technology Summit in cooperation with the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy and with the Clinton Administration. Dr. Tsina has received numerous awards including the IEEE Millennium Medal (2000) and the IEEE Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education (1995). His graduate degrees (Tufts, Duke) are in physical chemistry. Dr. Tsina currently serves as the National Science Foundation Evaluator for CBE.
M. Susan Ubbelohde is an Associate Professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley. She received an AB degree from Oberlin College in Urban Studies, a BS from the University of Michigan in Architecture and her MArch from the University of Oregon. Her research focuses primarily on the relationship between building design and environmental forces, in particular climate and daylight as contexts for architecture. Current projects include the calibration of a mirror box sky simulator (Artificial sky), evaluation of daylight prediction computer software, field analysis of climate response in buildings by Le Corbusier and Kahn in India, and the design and performance of alternatively cooled houses for California transitional climates.
Paul Wright, PhD, was born in London and obtained his degrees at the University of Birmingham, England. He is the A. Martin Berlin Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Berkeley. He is also the co-chairman of the Management of Technology Program, and the Associate Dean for Distance Learning and Instructional Technology in the College of Engineering. He has co-authored over 200 articles for journals and conferences, as well as co-authored "Manufacturing Intelligence", with D.A. Bourne, and "Metal Cutting", with E.M.Trent. His most recent book, "21st Century Manufacturing," just won the book of the year award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. Recent research accomplishments are in "Internet-based CAD/CAM Systems" based on the "CyberCut" project. The work takes place in the Ford Prototyping Studio and Manufacturing Laboratory, a 2000 sq.ft. space on the 2nd Floor of Etcheverry Hall at Berkeley, which is being used for teaching and research. In the last year, the Studio has prototyped energy-scavenging, pico-radio systems for the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC), small "mote" platforms and the Personal Server device for Intel, fire-rescue products for the Chicago Fire Department, in-tire sensors for Pirelli, and (in newer work) Demand-Response thermostats, nodes and meters for the California Energy Commission. All these projects are under the CITRIS umbrella.
Richard M. White, PhD, received a doctorate in Applied Physics from Harvard University. He went from the General Electric Microwave Laboratory in Palo Alto, to the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, U.C. Berkeley, where he has been primarily concerned with teaching and research in solid-state electronics, with particular emphasis on ultrasonics and sensors. White, elected to the Nationals Academy of Engineering, is founding Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC), and has been chair of the interdisciplinary Graduate Group on Science and Mathematics Education at Berkeley. He is a pioneer in the development of Surface Acoustic Wave devices and is named on more than one dozen U.S. patents on silicon microstructures, ultrasonic sensors, tactile sensor devices, acoustic wave fluid sensors, ultrasonic micropumps, and microwave devices. He has co-authored three books. In 1996, he was appointed a Chancellor's Professor at the University of California Berkeley. His current interest includes MEMS-based proximity power detectors.