Lindsay Baker joined the MS program in Building Science at UCB in July of 2007. She received her BA in Environmental Studies from Oberlin College, where she focused her studies on Ecological Design and Architectural History. She has worked for the Southface Energy Institute in Atlanta, the Chattanooga Planning and Design Studio, the Energy Coordinating Agency in Philadelphia, and most recently with the US Green Building Council. At the USGBC, she coordinated the development of LEED rating systems and standards procedures, as well as developing the LEED for Schools program. Lindsay is currently working on the CBE Occupant IEQ Survey, focusing on occupant comfort in K-12 educational buildings and how user interface design can facilitate energy conservation in building systems.
Sam Borgeson is an MS student in the Building Science program at UC Berkeley. He received his BA in Physics from Wesleyan University in 1997. In 2000, Sam co-founded Carbon Five, a San Francisco based software consulting firm, where he was CTO and a managing partner for six years. He is interested in the potential of building modeling, monitoring, and control software to inform design decisions and facilitate the process of building green.
Xue Chen is a graduate student at UC Berkeley in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, with an emphasis on control systems. She received a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China, in 2003. Her current research interests are embedded systems, and micro-controllers, and she is currently working on the Demand Response Enabling Technology Project.
Wesley Hinkle is a fourth-year undergraduate at UC Berkeley majoring in Cognitive Science and minoring in Computer Science. He is fascinated with information systems and, more generally, one's interaction with knowledge represented abstractly in a variety of mediums, from hallways and door handles to sticky notes to symbols on an LCD. He helps where he can with the programmatic aspects of the survey tools, troubleshooting issues and adding new features
Jennifer Hsiaw is a third-year undergraduate student at UC Berkeley. She is majoring in architecture and minoring in city planning and environmental design in developing countries. Her areas of interest within these fields includes sustainability and social justice. At CBE she is working on implementation of the CBE Occupant IEQ Survey.
Hoi Yan Jim is a 4th year undergraduate at UC Berkeley with a triple major in Business Administration, Economics and Linguistics. She is currently working with CBE on the implementation of the CBE Occupant IEQ Survey.
Dong-Eun Kim is an MS student in Building Science program at UC Berkeley. She received her BS in Architectural Engineering with a concentration in Architectural Design from Konkuk University, Korea in 2005. DongEun is currently interested in indoor air quality for human health. Her areas of interest also include thermal comfort introduced from physiological approach. She is currently working on a human subject study with task-ambient conditioning..
Kyle Konis is a graduate student researcher and PhD candidate in the Building Science Program at UC Berkeley. Kyle received a B.A. in Architecture from the University of Washington in 2001 and a Master's Degree in Architecture from Yale University in 2004. Before coming to Berkeley, Kyle worked as an architect for Sir Michael Hopkins in London and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in Seattle. Kyle's research interest is in occupant satisfaction, and applying low-cost strategies and technologies that increase energy efficiency.
YoonSoo Lee is a PhD student in the Building Science program at UC Berkeley. He received his MArch degree from University of Texas at Austin in 2005. While pursuing his Master's degree, he was an active member of the Solar Decathlon Team, where he was engaged in the construction and organization of solar powered affordable housing. He has also participated in green retrofit project of a 15-story dilapidated building in Shreveport, Louisiana, which is aiming to be a LEED-certified building. His current research focus is automatic controls algorithm for the operation of buildings that integrate mixed-mode ventilation systems and the application of underfloor air distribution systems. .
Timothy Moore is an MS student in the Building Science program at UC Berkeley. Prior to attending Berkeley he founded Whole Systems Design through which he provided sustainable design consulting services to a broad range of architects, engineers, and consulting firms. He is also a co-founder and former VP of Customer & Technology Solutions for Hypercar, Inc., and was as a Senior Research Associate at Rocky Mountain Institute for five years before that. He was the principle systems integrator for the Hypercar concept, led initial product development for Hypercar Inc. at Lotus Engineering (Norwich, England) and design integration at TWR Engineering (Oxford, England). Timothy has published papers and articles on integrated whole-system design for energy-efficient automobiles, sustainable architecture, and renewable energy systems, and is the author of a nationally distributed LEED Professional Accreditation Study Guide. He earned his BS in Environmental Design at Western Washington University where he received awards for outstanding scholarship from the Huxley College for the Environment, the Society of Automotive Engineers, and U.S. Department of Energy. He is currently researching radiant cooling in commercial buildings to determine how CBE might best build upon its existing work to address pertinent design and application issues.
Therese Peffer is a PhD student in the Architecture program at UC Berkeley. She earned her M. Arch. degree at the University of Oregon in 1998, where she worked for the Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory. She is an architect and has worked in architectural firms in San Francisco and Pismo Beach, California. She gained hands-on experience with renewable energy systems while writing and editing for Home Power magazine in rural Oregon. Her current research interest is demand response residential control systems, user interface design, wireless sensor and actuator networks, and human thermal comfort.
Michael Scott is an MS/PhD student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at UC Berkeley. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Data Storage Systems from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999. His industry experience includes working with Orbital Sciences Corporation developing ground station equipment for satellite systems; Bose Corporation characterizing RF immunity of audio products; National Instruments Corporation developing data acquisition hardware; and MIT Lincoln Laboratory where his efforts were in development of mobile EHF communications terminal hardware. His current research focus at UC Berkeley is in the area of low-power analog circuits for distributed smart sensor networks.