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Mechanical Engineering Engineer

Location:
Berkeley, CA
Posted:
October 14, 2012

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DUNCAN CALLAWAY

Energy and Resources Group, University of California

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Minor in

Applied Mathematics (May 2001). Thesis advisor: Steven Strogatz.

B.S. University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, Mechanical Engineering (1995) .

RESEARCH INTERESTS.

Power management; modeling and control of aggregated storage devices ; spatially

distributed

energy resources; environmental impact assessment of energy technologies.

APPOINTMENTS and EXPERIENCE

Current appointments:

Assistant Professor, Energy and Resources Group and Department of Mechanical Engineering

(by courtesy), University of California, Berkeley (July 2009

- )

Faculty Scientist, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National

Laboratory (June 2010

- )

Previous appointments:

Visiting Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California,

Berkeley

(September-December 2008

)

Assistant Research Scientist, School of Natural Resources and Environment and Department

of

Mechanical Engineering (by courtesy), University of Michigan (July 2008-June 2009

)

Research Investigator, School of Natural Resources and Environment and Department of

Mechanical Engineering (by courtesy), University of Michigan (September 2006-June 2008

)

Senior Design Engineer, PowerLight Corporation, Berkeley, CA, October 2005- August 2006

.

Senior Engineer, Davis Energy Group, Davis, CA, 2003- October 2005.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis (2001-2002)

Visiting Graduate Student Researcher, Theoretical Biology and Biophysics, Los Alamos

National Laboratory, (six months of residence in 1998 and 1999)

Visiting Graduate Student Researcher, Mathematical Biology Group, Oxford University,

Oxford

UK (Fall,1998)

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, 2001 -2002.

NSF IGERT Fellow (Program focus: nonlinear systems) 1999-2000.

NSF Predoctoral Fellow, 1997 -2001.

General Motors Scholar (full tuition undergraduate academic scholarship), 1992-1994.

Duncan Callaway 1 CV, April 2012

PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS

S Controlling distributed energy constrained

resources for

th

power system ancillary services, Proceedings of the 11 International Conference for

Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems, 2010.

7. Kashyap, A. and Callaway, D.S Estimating the probability of load curtailment in

power

th

systems with responsive distributed storage, Proceedings of the 11 International

Conference for Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems, 2010.

SEMINARS AND PRESENTATIONS

SIAM Conference on Dynamical Systems (Snowbird, Utah), Engaging the Demand Side in

Renewables Integration, May 25, 2011 (invited)

Connectivity Week Conference (San Jose CA), Addressing Fast DR Metering and Control

Challenges, May 23, 2011 (invited).

Beijing Institute of Technology, School of Automation, The Role of the Demand Side in

Renewables Integration, March 4, 2011 (invited)

National Science Foundation Pre-conference on Dynamical Systems: New Directions in

Dynamical Systems, Dynamics, Electric Power, and the Smart Grid, January 4, 2011

(invited)

UC Berkeley, i4energy Seminar Series, The Role of Demand Response in Renewables

Integration November 12, 2010 (invited)

National Academy of Engineering German -American Frontiers of Engineering Sympos ium,

Coupling systems with electric vehicles for sustainability, security and grid

reliability, April

23-25 2010 (invited)

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Aggregated Electricity

Load

Modeling & Control for Fast Ancillary Se rvices April 6, 2010 (invited)

Power Systems Engineering Research Center public webinar, Aggregated Electricity Load

Modeling & Control for Regulation and Load Following Ancillary Services . November 3

2009 (invited)

th

20 International Symposium on Mathematical Programming Aggregated Electricity Load

Modeling & Control for Regulation and Load Following Ancillary Services August 26, 2009

(invited)

University of California, Berkeley Energy and Resources Group Colloquium, Examining

energy

storage and its alternatives in sustainable energy systems. February 11 2009 (invited)

Group for Research in Decision Analysis (GERAD, a multi -university research center),

Montreal.

Statistical mechanical representations of distributed energy storage devices to fa

cilitate

sustainable energy production, January 16, 2009 (invited)

APPAM 2008 Fall Research Conference, Los Angeles, CA, Investigating Spatial Variation

in

Marginal Emissions and Economic Benefits of Wind Generation, November 7, 2008, with

Meredith Fowlie (U-M Public Policy, speaker)

Western Electricity Coordinating Council, Modeling Coincident Energies to produce

Coincident

Dispatch Seminar, Wind Forecasting for System Reliability and Emissions Reduction from

Wind Energy, November 6, 2008 (invited)

University of California, Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, Energy

and

Resources Group, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions from Wind Energy: Location,

Location, Location? October 29, 2008 (invited)

INFORMS 2008 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, "A Power System Planning Model with

Intermittent Wind Resources," October 14 2008, with Richard Chen (U-M IOE, speaker) and

Amy Cohn (U-M IOE)

University of California, Berkeley: Berkeley Manufacturing Institute, Department of

Mechanical

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Engineering, Tapping the energy storage potential in electric loads with PCTs September

22, 2008 (invited)

University of Michigan, CARSS / MMPEI Workshop on Energy and Social Science: Challenges

and Opportunities, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions and Wind Energy Deployment

May 6, 2008, with Meredith Fowlie (U-M Public Policy, co-speaker) (invited)

University of Michigan Systems Science Seminar, Reliability and Storage in Sustainable

Energy Systems, February 2, 2008 (invited)

Cornell University Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Engineering

Sustainable Energy Systems, February 21, 2006 (invited)

University of Wisconsin, Madison: Energy Institute, Engineering Sustainable Energy

Systems,

February 20 2006 (invited)

University of California, Davis, Dept of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering,

Engineering

Sustainable Energy Systems, February, 2006 (invited)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Michigan

Duncan Callaway 7 CV, April 2012

NRE 580: Environmental Integrated Assessment (co-taught), Winter 2009

Berkeley

ER 291-1, Electric Energy Systems, Fall 2009, Fall 2011.

ER 290-3, Energy Efficiency Technology in Buildings, Fall 2010, Spring 2012

ER 290-1, Energy Analysis Classics, Spring 2012

ECE 194, Power Systems Engineering (co -taught with Kameshwar Poolla), Fall 2010

SERVICE AND SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

Proposal referee:

CITRIS Big Ideas, France-Berkeley Fund, National Science Foundation, Natural Sciences

and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Non-profit white paper referee:

Union of Concerned Scientists

Other Service and activities

Guest Editor, Annual Review of Environment and Resources (2012 edition).

Scientific Advisory Board, i4Energy Center, UC Berkeley Center for Information Technology

Research in the Interests of Society (2009 - present).

Faculty Investigator,

Center for Information Technology Research in the Interests of

Society,

UC Berkeley, (2010-present

)

Faculty Adviser,

University of Michigan MSA Environmental Issues Committee, (2006-2008

)

Faculty Fellow, Michigan Memorial Phoenix Energy Institute, (2007-2009)

Affiliate, Michigan Climate Action Council and Michigan Climate Action Technical Working

Group on Cross-cutting Issues (2008).

FUNDING (Callaway is PI unless otherwise noted)

12. Coordinated aggregation of distributed resources for the smart grid

Sponsor: Bosch Energy Network Research Grant Program

PI: Kameshwar Poolla

Co-PI: Pravin Varaiya

Period:

01/2012-12/2013

Amount: $200,000 with $200,000 match from UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor for Research

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11. How big is the efficiency resource? Scalable evaluation of building energy

efficiency

potential and performance.

Sponsor:

UC Berkeley Hellman Faculty Fund

Period: 07/2011-06/2012

Amount: $50,000

10. Using Existing Metering to Identify Energy Waste in Buildings .

Sponsor: Center for Information Technology Research in the Interests of Society

Co-PI: Ram Akella, UC Santa Cruz

Period:

07/2011-06/2012

Amount: $75,000

9. Mitigating renewables intermittency through nondisruptive distributed load control

Sponsor: Power Systems Engineering Research Center

Period: 01/2011-12/2012

Amount: $110,000

8. Advanced Grid-Interactive Distributed PV and Storage

Sponsor: California Solar Initiative (California Public Utilities Commission)

Joint proposal with SolarCity (lead), Tesla Motors and UC Berkeley

Berkeley Co-PI: Daniel Kammen

Period:

01/2011-12/2013

Amount: $1.8M (total), $378,800 (to UC Berkeley)

7. Modeling of Load Control Strategies to Augment Aggregated Wind Resources.

Sponsor: California Energy Commission

Co-PI: David Auslander

Period:

10/2010-12/2011

Amount: $96,000

6. Modeling of Load Control Strategies to Augment Aggregated Wind Resources.

Sponsor: California Energy Commission

Co-PI: David Auslander

Period:

08/2009-06/2010

Amount: $200,000

5. EFRI-RESIN: A Multi-Scale Design and Control Framework for Dynamically Coupled

Sustainable and Resilient Infras tructures, with Application to Vehicle-to-Grid

Integration.

Sponsor: National Science Foundation

PI: Jeff Stein (Callaway as participating investigator)

Period: 09/2008-08/2012

Amount: $2,000,000 (approximately $350,000 to Callaway)

4. PHEV Pilot Proposal, with DTE Energy and General Motors.

Sponsor: Michigan Public Service Commission

U-M PI: Gary Was (Callaway as participating investigator)

Period: 09/2008-08/2010

Amount: $5,000,000 ($278,140 subcontract to Callaway)

3. A Design Science Framework for Measuring Future GHG Emissions in the Energy Sector .

Sponsor: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Energy Institute

PI: Steven Skerlos (Callaway as Co-PI)

Period: 09/2008-08/2009

Amount: $298,692 ($7,583 to Callaway)

Duncan Callaway 9 CV, April 2012

2. Wind Energy Resource Utilization: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of the

Interaction

Between Atmosphere and Technology .

Sponsor: Gilbert Whitaker Fund for the Improvement of Teaching

Co-PIs: Gerald Keeler and Duncan Callaway

Period: 05/2008 05/2009

Amount: $10,000

1. Integrating Resource Assessment, Economics and Public Policy to Optimize Renewable

Electricity Generation.

Sponsor: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Energy Institute

PI: Duncan Callaway

Period:

02/2007-05/2009

Amount: $266,550

Duncan Callaway 10 CV, April 2012



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