Event
ME Seminar: Amir Roth, Ph.D. "DOE's BEM R&D Roadmap -- Overview, Feedback, Lessons..."
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
6:30 p.m.
DeWalt Seminar Room, 2164 Martin
Mohammad Heidarinejad
muh182@umd.edu
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR SERIES
Speaker: Amir Roth, Ph.D.
Technology Manager
Building Technologies Office Building Energy Modeling
Department of Energy
DOE's BEM R&D Roadmap--Overview, Feedback, Lessons & Plans
May 31, 2016 | 6:30 PM | DeWalt Seminar Room, 2164 Martin Hall
Abstract: Earlier this year, Navigant consulting released a DOE-commissioned draft R&D roadmap for building energy modeling. The comment period produced over 400 comments, which Navigant and DOE are currently working to address. This talk will cover the major roadmap findings, distill lessons from the comments, and describe how DOE is addressing recommendations--from both the roadmap draft and the comments--via current efforts and plans for the near future.
Bio: Amir Roth is the Technology Manager for BTO’s Building Energy Modeling (BEM) sub-program and has served in that role since 2010. From 2001 to 2010 he was first an assistant and then an associate professor with tenure of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA where he received a 2002 NSF CAREER award and served as undergraduate curriculum chair in 2009 and 2010. Amir has also worked as a software development engineer at Microsoft in Redmond, WA and has interned at Intel’s Microprocessor Research Lab in Haifa, Israel. He graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in physics from Yale University and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin—Madison where he won a dissertation award in 2001. He is a member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the Instititute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), and the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA).
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