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John W. Freiderich is an applied technology scientist at the Y-12 National Security Complex. He specializes in the advanced processing of non-radiological and nuclear materials. His scientific areas of expertise include electrochemistry, ionic liquids/molten salts, aqueous solution chemistry, and various spectroscopic methods. Freiderich has developed and patented technologies related to the improvement of consumer-relevant materials and processes during his tenure. These technologies include rare earth extractive metallurgy, mineral electrowinning, high-throughput molten salt reactor material production, advanced sensor development, and electroplating methods. He holds a Ph.D. in radiochemistry from Washington State University and a B.S. in chemistry from Minnesota State University.

Ralph Muehleisen

Argonne National Laboratory

Areas of Expertise

Systems Design

Building Materials

Building Construction

Windows

Electric Grid

Building Technologies

Power Systems and Grid Modernization

Population Dynamics

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Dr. Ralph T. Muehleisen is the Principal Building Scientist, the Building Energy Decision and Technology Research (BEDTR) Group leader, and the Urban Science and Engineering Program lead for Argonne’s Energy Systems division. At Argonne, Dr. Muehleisen leads research to increase the energy efficiency and resiliency of the built environment while improving the quality of life and return on investment for citizens. His projects include urban science and engineering, stochastic building energy modeling, reduced order building energy modeling, risk analysis of building energy retrofits, Bayesian Calibration methods for building energy models, agent based models for understanding adoption of retrofit technologies, smart building/smart grid integration, and the development of new energy efficient and diagnostic technologies buildings. Dr. Muehleisen is the author of over 180publications and presentations, and is a frequent invited speaker in the areas of urban science and engineering, building energy modeling, architectural acoustics and noise control.

Ben Brown

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Areas of Expertise

Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning

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He is a statistical scientist in the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology division within Berkeley Lab’s Biosciences Area. He specializes in the development of novel machine algorithms, usually for the biological and environmental sciences at Berkeley Lab. His group develops “third-wave” learning algorithms that combine the interpretability and reliability of classical statistics with the predictive performance of deep learning. They specialize in designing learning paradigms for complex, high-dimensional systems that enable accurate uncertainty quantification, model discovery, feature selection, and inference. Dr. Brown's expertise include statistics, machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence.

Charles Macal

Argonne National Laboratory

Areas of Expertise

Other Modeling and Simulation

Other Modeling and Simulation Agent based Modeling

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Biography

Charles Macal applies computational modeling and simulation tools to complex systems to solve problems in a variety of fields, including energy and national security.

He is the chief scientist for the Argonne Resilient Infrastructure Initiative, and is a principal investigator for the development of the widely used Repast agent-based modeling toolkit.

He has Appointments at the University of Chicago Computation Institute and the Northwestern-Argonne Institute for Science and Engineering. He is adjunct professor at the University of Chicago, where he teaches a course on Complex Adaptive Systems for Threat Management and Emergency Preparedness.

He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Illinois and holds software copyrights for two systems: ELIST (Enhanced Logistics Intra-theater Support Tool) and EMCAS (Electricity Market Complex Adaptive System).

Education

B.S. Purdue University, 1974
M.S., Purdue University, 1975
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1989

Awards, Honors and Memberships

Association for Computing Machinery, Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, Area Editor for Agent-based Modeling
Society for Computer Simulation International, Simulation Journal, Associate Editor

Gao Liu

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Areas of Expertise

Lithium Ion & Advance Lithium Battery Systems

OLED

Synthetic Polymer Chemistry

Electrochemical

Advanced Materials

Energy Storage

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He is the Applied Energy Materials group leader focusing on lithium battery research and development. He leads U.S. Department of Energy and privately funded projects in developing conductive binders and applying lithium metal to improve battery performance. He also serves as a scientific advisor to startup companies and international corporations commercializing new battery technologies. His work has been published in journals, including Advanced Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Natural Communications. He received national and international awards for his battery technologies, including 2013 and 2015 R&D 100 Awards and a FMC Scientific Achievement Award.

Jessica Granderson

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Areas of Expertise

Monitoring

Modeling

Building Materials

Automation

Building Technologies

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She is a Staff Scientist and the Deputy of Research Programs for the Building Technology and Urban Systems Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research focuses on commercial building energy performance monitoring, analytics, diagnostics, and intelligent lighting controls. She holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley, and an AB in Mechanical Engineering from Harvard University. She is the recipient of the 2015 Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Award for Leadership in Research.

Kevin P. Schneider

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Areas of Expertise

Modeling

Energy Integration

Simulation

Solar

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He received his bachelor’s degree in physics and his master’s and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Washington. His main areas of research are distribution system analysis and power system operations. He is currently a principal research engineer at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory working at the Battelle Seattle Research Center. He is an adjunct faculty member at Washington State University, an affiliate assistant professor at the University of Washington, and a licensed professional engineer in Washington. He is the past chair of the Distribution System Analysis Sub-Committee and the current secretary of the Analytics Methods for Power Systems Committee (AMPS); formerly known as the Power System Analysis, Computing, and Economics (PSACE) Committee.

J. Nathan Hohman

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Areas of Expertise

Semiconductor and/or Fabrication

Nanomaterials

Semiconductors/PV

Materials Characterization

Advanced Materials

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He is a staff scientist in inorganic nanomaterials at the Molecular Foundry, a DOE national user facility for nanomaterials fabrication and research located at Berkeley Lab. He specializes in approaches to blend organic and inorganic components into a hybrid system for greater structural variety in specialized materials. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University and his B.S. in Chemistry from Butler University.

Jason Hales

Idaho National Laboratory

Areas of Expertise

Modeling

Structural Materials

Simulation

Nuclear

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He is a computational scientist at Idaho National Laboratory specializing in parallel, nonlinear, fully coupled multiphysics software. His technical skills include numerical methods, high-performance computing, nonlinear solid mechanics, material model development, finite element contact, and multiphysics coupling. He joined INL in 2010 with a principal focus on nonlinear solid mechanics capability development. He is the primary author of BISON, INL’s nuclear fuel performance application. He now manages INL’s Fuel Modeling and Simulation Department, which develops a set of multiphysics applications in support of several U.S. Department of Energy’s nuclear energy programs. Before joining INL, he spent 9 years at Sandia National Laboratories and worked on the solid mechanics applications in SIERRA. He has a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from Brigham Young University and a doctorate in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

John Jackson

Idaho National Laboratory

Areas of Expertise

Fracture Mechanics

Materials Characterization

Structural Materials

Advanced Materials

Nuclear

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He is a distinguished staff scientist/engineer at Idaho National Laboratory with dual responsibility as the Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) technical interface and as the industry program lead for the Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF). In these capacities, he works closely with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy and the nuclear industry to ensure DOE facilities are used effectively to maintain the current reactor fleet and to enable innovation. He has nearly 20 years of experience in the areas of mechanical testing and fracture mechanics and over 3 years of experience in extreme environment materials characterization and drilling mechanics at the ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company in Houston, Texas. He has a doctorate (2001) and master’s (1998) degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Washington, and a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering technology (1995) from Central Washington University.

Ikenna C. Nlebedim

Ames Laboratory

Areas of Expertise

Additive Manufacturing

Critical Material Recovery

Modeling

Battery Recycling

Energy Conversion

Advanced Materials

Rare Earth Materials Technology

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Dr. Ikenna C. Nlebedim is an associate scientist and group leader at Ames Laboratory and the magnet thrust co-lead for the Critical Materials Institute (CMI). He contributes to CMI research efforts on recycling, additive manufacturing, thermomagnetic processing and system levels finite element modeling. He has a Ph.D. from Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, and an M.Sc. from KTH, Stockholm, Sweden. His research interests include recycling of materials, magnetoelastic and magnetoelastic materials, magnetic non-destructive evaluation, and magnetic systems modeling.

Nancy Lybeck

Idaho National Laboratory

Areas of Expertise

Nuclear

Diagnostics

Materials Characterization

Modeling

Advanced Materials

Data Management

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She is the manager of the Department of Human Factors, Controls, and Statistics at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). She graduated from Montana State University with a doctorate in mathematics with an emphasis in numerical analysis, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in industrial mathematics at the Center for Research in Scientific Computation at North Carolina State University. Prior to joining INL in 2010, she worked for Sentient Corporation and served as a principal investigator for several Small Business Innovation Research projects in the area of prognostic health management. She has extensive experience in data processing and analysis using the SAS programming environment and MATLAB, and served as the technical lead for the Nuclear Data Management and Analysis System from 2014 to 2017. She has also provided analytical support as needed for a variety of projects at INL, including high-temperature materials characterization and fuel performance.

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