Ram Rajagopal

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University (ONLINE)

Biography

Stanford University (ONLINE)

Ram Rajagopal is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, where he directs the Stanford Sustainable Systems Lab (S3L), focused on large-scale monitoring, data analytics and stochastic control for infrastructure networks, in particular, power networks. His current research interests in power systems are in the integration of renewables, smart distribution systems, and demand-side data analytics.

He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and an M.A. in Statistics, both from the University of California Berkeley, Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Texas, Austin and Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, Powell Foundation Fellowship, Berkeley Regents Fellowship and the Makhoul Conjecture Challenge award. He holds more than 30 patents and several best paper awards from his work and has advised or founded various companies in the fields of sensor networks, power systems, and data analytics.

Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Senior Fellow, Precourt Institute for Energy
  • Associate Professor (By courtesy), Electrical Engineering
  • Member, Maternal & Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI)
  • Affiliate, Precourt Institute for Energy

Administrative Appointments

  • Co-Academic Director, Stanford Global Projects Center (2018 - Present)
  • Director and Founding Researcher, Stanford University Bits and Watts Lab (2016 - Present)

Honors & Awards

NSF CAREER Award, NSF (2016)

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