Arizona State University

Energy Faculty

Datu Buyung Agusdinata

Datu Buyung Agusdinata

Assistant Professor, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures                                                                            

Research Areas of Interest

Assistant Professor Agusdinata’s research interests encompass sustainable energy and transportation systems, green supply chain, system analysis of the development and impacts of nanomedicine, and drought adaptation policies.

Websites

https://sustainability-innovation.asu.edu/person/datu-agusdinata/

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fxV4_jYAAAAJ&hl=en

 

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Raja Ayyanar 

Raja Ayyanar                                                                          

Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Research Areas of Interest

Professor Ayyanar’s area of research interest includes power electronics, DC-DC converters, power management, power conversion and control for renewable energy interface, especially PV and wind, electric vehicles, motor drives, wide band gap devices and applications.

Websites

https://asu.elsevierpure.com/en/persons/raja-ayyanar,

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_gaWJD8AAAAJ&hl=en, https://search.asu.edu/profile/283502

 

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Bertan Bakkaloglu

Bertan Bakkaloglu

Professor, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering                                                                      

Research Areas of Interest

Professor Bakkalogu’s research interests include integrated power management circuits, RF, and mixed-signal IC.

Website

https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/749234

 

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Mariana Bertoni

Mariana Bertoni

Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Research Areas of Interest

Professor Bertoni’s research interests entails the defect engineering of solar cell materials, transparent conducting oxides, defects in semiconductors, synthesis, growth and deposition of semiconductors, electrical and optical characterization, X-ray microscopy and spectroscopy.

Websites

https://search.asu.edu/profile/1995163

https://defectlab.engineering.asu.edu/project/dr-mariana-bertoni/, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qarevj4AAAAJ&hl=en,

 

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Harvey Bryan

Harvey Bryan

Architecture, The Design School

Research Areas of Interest

Professor Bryan is active in several professional and technical societies; he has served on the ASHRAE committee responsible for developing the 90.1 Energy Standard, is presently serving on the ASHRAE TC 2.8 and SPC 189 committees which are concerned with Buildings Impact on the Environment, as well as the AIA’s Committee on the Environment. He was on the Board of Directors of the Arizona Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council and is certified in both BREEAM (a rating system widely used in Europe and Canada) as well as LEED. He is currently serving on the Board of Directors on the Green Building Initiative which developed the Green Globes’ rating system.

Website

https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/231090

 

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Peter Crozier

Peter Crozier

Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Research Areas of Interest

Professor Crozier has extensive experience in developing and applying advanced transmission electron microscopy techniques to problems related to energy and the environment with special emphasis on electroceramics, catalytic materials and atmospheric aerosols. He has 20 years of experience in developing and applying the technique of advanced transmission electron microscopy to problems in catalytic materials and oxide electrolytes. He is also applying electron energy-loss spectroscopy to determine the optical and vibrational properties of materials.

Websites

https://search.asu.edu/profile/26340

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=M4rqGggAAAAJ&hl=en

 

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Shuguang Deng

Shuguang Deng

Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Research Areas of Interest

Professor Deng’s research interests include adsorbents, catalysts and membranes for sustainable energy and clean water applications. Additionally, his research also encompasses adsorption, porous materials, hydrothermal liquefaction, biofuels, and water treatment.

Websites

https://search.asu.edu/profile/2704807

https://dreamlab.engineering.asu.edu/dr-shuguang-deng/

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9tu8lRcAAAAJ&hl=en

 

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Gary Dirks

Gary Dirks

Senior Director, School of Sustainability Faculty

Research Areas of Interest

Senior Director Dirks’s research interests consists of light absorption and energy transfer in polyene-porphyrin esters and energy transfer from carotenoid polyenes to porphyrins. A light-harvesting antenna, mimicry of antenna and photo-protective carotenoid functions by a synthetic carotenoporphyrin, structure of nitroarginine. Dirks’s nitrogen-15 nuclear magnetic resonance study entails:

  1. Energy transfer from carotenoids to porphyrins
  2. Stereochemistry of oligomeric proteins

Websites

https://sustainability-innovation.asu.edu/person/gary-dirks/

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gary-Dirks https://search.asu.edu/profile/1471405

 

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Justin Flory

Justin Flory

Associate Director, LightWorks, Center for Negative Carbon Emissions (CNCE)

Research Areas of Interest

Associate Director Flory’s interests encompass engineering systems using or inspired by nature that generate sustainable chemicals, fuels, materials and devices, biofuels, climate-change, artificial photosynthesis, bioenergy, energy and sustainability, and bioenergy markets.

Website

https://search.asu.edu/profile/1349187

 

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Stephen Goodnick

Stephen Goodnick

Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Research Areas of Interest

Professor Goodnick’s main research contributions include analysis of surface roughness at the Si/SiO2  interface, Monte Carlo simulation of ultrafast carrier relaxation in quantum confined systems, global modeling of high frequency and energy conversion devices, full-band simulation of semiconductor devices, transport in nanostructures, and fabrication and characterization of nanoscale semiconductor devices.

Websites

https://search.asu.edu/profile/38907

https://sustainability-innovation.asu.edu/person/stephen-goodnick/

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RArgTMcAAAAJ&hl=en

 

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Jonathan Kelman

Jonathan Kelman

School of Sustainability Faculty

Research Areas of Interest

Kelman’s research interests encompass state-enabled international illicit flows, state nuclear weapons programs, energy subsidies, and energy policy. Especially surrounding utilities and building codes

Website

https://search.asu.edu/profile/2183369

 

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Richard King

Richard R. King

Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Research Areas of Interest

Professor King’s research expertise includes: high-efficiency silicon and III-V photovoltaics, solid-state device physics, recombination at semiconductor defects and interfaces, multi-junction solar cells, thin-film compound semiconductor growth and characterization.

Websites

https://search.asu.edu/profile/2740499

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Jennifer Kitchen

Jennifer Kitchen

Associate Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Research Areas of Interest

Associate Professor Kitchen’s research interest includes high-performance power management systems for green energy, specifically solar arrays, and wireless communications systems. In addition, her research also involves programmable, broadband, wireless transceivers for future generation (5G) wireless communication systems.

Websites

https://search.asu.edu/profile/472735

https://faculty.engineering.asu.edu/kitchen/

https://asu.elsevierpure.com/en/persons/jennifer-kitchen

 

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Beomjin Kwon

Beomjin Kwon

Asst Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Research Areas of Interest

Assistant Professor Kwon’s research interest encompasses energy efficiency and energy automation; some of which include efficient energy generation, transmission, and distribution. His research also consists of energy systems such as thermal systems and mechanical energy systems.

Websites

https://search.asu.edu/profile/3322893

https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/332289

 

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Klaus Lackner

Klaus Lackner

Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Research Areas of Interest

Professor Lackner’s research interest consists of carbon dioxide capture, carbon sequestration, carbon foot-printing, energy and environmental policy, innovative energy and infrastructure systems and their scaling properties, the role of automation, robotics and mass-manufacturing in downscaling infrastructure systems.

Website

https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/2483273

 

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Arunachala Mada Kannan

Arunachala Mada Kannan

Professor, The Polytechnic School

Research Areas of Interest

Professor Kannan’s research interests consists of proton exchange membrane fuel cells, an efficient catalyst design and development for high power density Membrane-Electrodes-Assembly (MEA) for automotive and aerospace applications. His research also involves the study of green hydrogen along with the design and development of anode and cathode catalysts for photoelectrochemical water splitting for H2 generation. Furthermore, Professor Kannan’s work also analyzes li-ion batteries containing passive thermal management for improving safety and cycle life enhancement of electric vehicle batteries in collaboration with local EV company (www.zevx.com).

Websites

https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/859781

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WqygSOoAAAAJ&hl=en.

 

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Ryan Milcarek

Ryan Milcarek

Asst Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Research Areas of Interest

The Milcarek research group is focused on chemical and electrochemical conversion processes with applications in power generation and energy storage, including fuel production. Key research interests include solid oxide fuel cells, solid oxide electrolysis, partial oxidation, hydrogen generation and applications, combustion, micro combustion, thermodynamic power cycles, ceramic processing, thermochemical energy storage and water splitting. In addition, the Milcarek research group regularly completes projects involving energy systems and efficiency analysis, including emissions and carbon footprint analysis.

 

Websites

https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/3313988

https://ceps.engineering.asu.edu/

 

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Clark Miller

Clark Miller

Assoc Center Dir & Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society

Research Areas of Interest

Professor Miller’s research interests involves energy transition policy and planning, energy poverty, social and behavioral dimensions of energy systems and energy transitions, and community renewable energy.

Website

https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/977682

 

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Duong Nguyen

Duong Nguyen

Asst Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Research Areas of Interest

Assistant Professor Nguyen’s research interest involves cloud and edge computing, power and energy systems, decision-making, market design, network economics, power system economics, operations and planning, applied operations research, and optimization and game theory.

Websites

https://search.asu.edu/profile/3714024

http://duongtungnguyen.github.io/

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EVWYEMQAAAAJ

 

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Qiong Nian

Qiong Nian

Associate Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Research Areas of Interest

Associate Professor Nian’s research interests include nano-manufacturing, additive manufacturing, laser-based material processing, laser matter interaction and physics simulation, inkjet printing of functional materials, and 2D materials fabrication for energy storage and bio-sensors.

Websites

https://search.asu.edu/profile/1550520

https://search.asu.edu/profile/1550520, https://labs.engineering.asu.edu/mmmp/

https://asu.elsevierpure.com/en/persons/qiong-nian

 

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Anamitra Pal

Anamitra Pal

Associate Professor, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Research Areas of Interest

Associate Professor Pal’s research interests consists of:

  1. Energy efficiency and energy automation
  2. Efficient energy generation, transmission, and distribution: energy theft detection using machine learning
  3. Sensors, communications, efficient generation, transmission and use: detection of reverse power flows, power system equipment health monitoring
  4. Energy systems monitoring and evaluation: PMU applications, state estimation, parameter estimation, device calibration
  5. Renewable energy
  6. Solar, bio, fuel cell, wind, hybrid system, geo; correlated scenario generation for reliability planning
  7. Energy system
  8. Energy storage: storage siting and sizing, quantifying stacked value of storage

Website

https://search.asu.edu/profile/3023947

 

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Patrick Phelan

Patrick Phelan

Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs and Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Research Areas of Interest

Professor Phelan’s research interests encompasses thermal engineering, sustainable energy systems, and energy policy.

Website

https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/79040

 

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Mike Ranjram

Mike Ranjram

Asst Professor, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Research Areas of Interest

Assistant Professor Ranjram’s research interests include: miniaturization of EV power converters-especially the auxiliary power module and on-board charger, wireless power charging, power electronics for clean energy technologies, and electric drives.

Website

https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/4008590

 

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Nicholas Rolston

Nicholas Rolston

Asst Professor, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Global Futures Scientist, Global Futures Scientists and Scholars 
 

Research Areas of Interest

Rolston’s research focuses on understanding fundamental mechanical and material properties in thin-film energy devices on length scales from angstroms to meters and developing scalable, open-air deposition methods to produce robust, low-cost solutions toward the goal of manufacturing the next generation of renewable energy technology.

Websites

https://search.asu.edu/profile/4008596

Homepage

 

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Konrad Rykaczewski

Konrad Rykaczewski

Assoc Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Research Areas of Interest

Associate Professor Rykaczewski’s research interests include: heat transfer in microscopy, conduction during direct skin contact, micro scale fundamentals of human sweat evaporation, human thermal exposure in extreme heat, soft thermal systems, soft thermal materials for TIMs, and cool future fashion for a hot planet.

Websites

https://search.asu.edu/profile/2156638

https://faculty.engineering.asu.edu/konrad/research-theme/thermal-materials/

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SWeAf4UAAAAJ&hl=en

 

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Ellen Stechel

Ellen Stechel

Senior Global Futures Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation

Research Areas of Interest

Stechel’s research interests include: materials and systems design for solar technologies for producing sustainable liquid hydrocarbons from carbon dioxide, hydrogen from advanced water splitting, clean water, renewable ammonia, and thermochemical and chemical energy storage.

Website

https://sustainability-innovation.asu.edu/person/ellen-stechel/

 

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Meng Tao

Meng Tao

Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Research Areas of Interest

Professor Tao’s research interests consist of sustainable energy infrastructure, photovoltaic chemical vapor deposition and its applications, semiconductors, two-dimensional metal dichalcogenides, alternative and renewable energy, chemicals and the chemical industry, solar energy, and sustainability.

Websites

https://search.asu.edu/profile/1818236

https://asu.elsevierpure.com/en/persons/meng-tao

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ppIQtGEAAAAJ&hl=en

 

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Govindasamy Tamizhmani

Govindasamy Tamizhmani

Research Professor, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Research Areas of Interest

Professor Tamizhmani’s research interests comprise of solar photovoltaics (PV) and fuel cells and batteries. His studies also include market driven PV applied research addressing technology application issues and real world reliability issues using actual field failure data and accelerated indoor testing data.

Websites

isearch.asu.edu/profile/227373

https://pvreliability.asu.edu/

 

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Cesar Torres

Cesar Torres

Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Research Areas of Interest

Professor Torres’s lab focuses on collaborations with various research teams to optimize photobioreactor designs and processes. His goal is to create optimal conditions in the reactors so that microoganisms maximize biofuel production.

Websites

https://search.asu.edu/profile/833942

https://environmentalbiotechnology.org/torres-lab/

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=isi-XBAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

 

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Vijay Vittal

Vijay Vittal

Regents Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Research Areas of Interest

Professor Vittal’s research interests comprise of: electric power and energy systems, robust control methods applied to power systems, emergency control to prevent catastrophic failures in power systems, direct control of loads to enhance reliability in power systems, sensors and sensor Systems for large scale power systems, use of phasor measurement for on-line transient stability analysis, grid integration of renewable resources, and hybrid simulation.

Websites

https://search.asu.edu/profile/755056

http://pserc.org/

https://asu.elsevierpure.com/en/persons/vijay-vittal

 

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Robert Wang

Robert Wang

Assoc Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Research Areas of Interest

Associate Professor Wang’s research interests consist of thermal energy conversion, storage, and transport in nanostructured materials; thermoelectric power generation; thermal storage media; heat transfer, and phonon optics, as well as the custom-design of colloidal nanoparticles and chemical precursors.

Websites

https://search.asu.edu/profile/1762503

https://wang.faculty.asu.edu/

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LaUdx9gAAAAJ&hl=en

https://asu.elsevierpure.com/en/persons/robert-wang

 

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Meng Wu

Meng Wu

Asst Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Research Areas of Interest

Assistant Professor Wu’s research interests include advanced optimization, control, and machine learning for reliability and economically integrating large-scale distributed energy resources (DERs) into power system planning, operations, stability, and electricity markets.

Websites

https://search.asu.edu/profile/3185729

https://sites.google.com/asu.edu/meng-wu

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3SJSA8gAAAAJ&hl=en

 

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