The Industry Advisory Committee was created to broaden engagement at ISGT North America Conferences.
Please contact me if you have any comments or questions.
Thank you,
Barbara Tyran, Chair
Contact:
Chair, Barbara Bauman Tyran
President, Women’s Council on Energy & the Environment
Electric Power Research Institute
Committee Members
| Mihaela Albu | Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, EB129 Politehnica University of Bucharest |
| Massoud Amin | Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota |
| Muhannad Al-Shareef | Engineer, Mega Spark, and IEEE Smart Grid & IEEE Smart Sites |
| Anuradha Annaswamy | Senior Research Scientist, MIT |
| Ashvin Bapat | Product Marketing Director, General Electric |
| Robert B. Catell | Chairman of the Board of the Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center (AERTC), Stony Brook University |
| Mark Esguerra | Director of Integrated Grid Planning and Innovation, Pacific Gas and Electric Company |
| Bill Hederman | Senior Fellow, University of Pennsylvania |
| Paul Hibbard | Principal, Analysis Group, Inc. |
| Doug Houseman | Grid Modernization Visionary, Burns & McDonnell |
| Mark Johnson | Managing Director, T&D World & Utility Analytics Institute | Informa |
| Jeffrey S. Katz | Head of Grid Technology, Energy, Environment and Utilities Industry, IBM |
| Sai A R Konakalla | Technology Architect, PXiSE Energy solutions |
| Mark J. Konya, P.E. | Principal Industry Consultant, SAS Global Utilities |
| Joberto S. B. Martins | Professor, Computer Science, Salvador University – UNIFACS |
| Hugh McDermott | Senior Vice President, Energy Storage Systems, Inc |
| John McDonald | Smart Grid Business Development Leader, GE’s Grid Solutions |
| Thamir (Tom) Murad | Country Lead – Engineering, Technology & Academic Relations, Head of Siemens Canada Engineering & Technology Academy Past Chair – IEEE Toronto Section – CANADA |
| Dr. Bala Natarajan | Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kansas State University |
| Dr. Laura L. Pullum | Sr. Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Gary Rackliffe | VP Smart Grids and Grid Modernization, ABB Inc. |
| David W. Roop | Director – Electric Transmission Operations & Reliability Power Delivery Group Dominion Energy |
| Satish Saini | Sr. Project Manager, Hydro One, Toronto, Canada Chair, IEEE Smart Grid Technical Activities Committee, PES |
| Alfonso Valdes | Principal Research Scientist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Dr. Qing-Chang Zhong | McGraw Endowed Chair, Professor in Energy and Power Eng. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology |