Project Leadership

Spoke Steering Committee

1. Shmuel Oren, Ph.D., Professor, University of California at Berkeley
2. Stanley C. Ahalt, Ph.D., Director, Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
3. Karen Butler-Purry, Ph.D., Professor, Texas A&M University
4. Heidi Grunwald, Ph.D., Professor, Temple University
5. Renata Rawlings-Goss, Ph.D., Co-Executive Director, South Big Data Regional Innovation Hub, Georgia Institute of Technology
6. Juan Torres, Associate Laboratory Director, Energy Systems Integration, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

Industry Advisory Board

1. Gary Hayes, CIO & VP of Information Technology, CenterPoint Energy (CNP)
2. John D. McDonald, P.E., SmartGrid Business Development Leader, GE Power’s Grid Solutions Business
3. Mark Smith, Senior Technology Advisor, Data Analytics Initiative Lead, EPRI
4. Ruchi Rajasekhar, Principal Data Architect, MISO Energy