2020 Emerging Technologies Review

The Institute for Energy Efficiency at UC Santa Barbara presents our 2020 Emerging Technologies Review. In this special year, IEE ETR took place in a series of focused virtual Friday workshops in October. 

To view the presentations and panel sessions from these virtual events, please click on the links below.

ETR Day 1: Energy Efficient Clouds and Data Centers Workshop

Raj Yavatkar: The Revolution in Data Center Communications and Interconnects
Nicola Peill-Moelter: Hunting Zombies for Fun, Profit, and Sustainability
Rich Wolski: Energy Efficiency on the (IoT) Edge
Katharine Schmidtke: Cloud-Scale Interconnect Architectures in the Context of Hardware and Software Codesign
Daniel Blumenthal: Low Energy Frequency Stabilized Coherent WDM for Data Center Interconnects
Robert Blum: The Promise of Co-Packaged Optics: Paving the Way for Improved Power Efficiency, Size, and Cost
John Bowers: Photonic Integration for Data Centers
William Wang: Towards Dramatically Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning

Panel Session 1: Data Center and Cloud Efficiency
Moderator: Tim Sherwood
Panelists: Jonathan Balkind, Brent Gorda, Michael Haney, Nicola Peill-Moelter, and Raj Yavatkar

Panel Session 2: The Optical Revolution in the Data Center and the Cloud
Moderator: John Bowers
Panelists: Alexis Bjorlin, Robert Blum, Gordon Keeler, Kaushik Patel, and Clint Schow

ETR Day 2: Smart Societal Infrastructure Workshop

Sila Kiliccote: From Demand Response to Fleet Electrification: A Search for High Impact Solutions
Raphaële Clément: Towards the Next Generation of Energy Storage Solutions for the Grid and Electric Transportation
Igor Mezic: Improving Building Energy Efficiency through Machine Learning
Gary Barsley: Southern California Edison Grid Updates / EV Plans
Mahnoosh Alizadeh: Real-Time Control Mechanisms for Community Energy Management
David Erne: Towards a Zero-Carbon Electric Grid
Sangwon Suh: Moving Bits Not Watts

Panel Session: Towards a Smart Societal Infrastructure Built on a Smart Grid
Moderator: Igor Mezic
Panelists: Mahnoosh Alizadeh, Sila Kiliccote, Gary Barsley, and David Erne

ETR Day 3: Food-Energy-Water Nexus Workshop

Olivier Jerphagnon - Artificial Intelligence to Solve Practical Problems in the Food and Agriculture Sector
Chandra Krintz - The SmartFarm Project
Deb Perrone - Groundwater Depletion Amplifies the Water-Energy Nexus
Steve DenBaars - Development of Ultraviolet (UV) LED Technology for Disinfection and Sterilization for COVID-19
Stuart Woolf - A Perspective from the California Agricultural Industry