Rajit Gadh

Rajit Gadh is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he serves as the founding Director of the UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center (SMERC) and the Connected Autonomous Electric Vehicle (CAEV) Program. He also founded the UCLA Wireless Internet for Mobile Enterprise Consortium (WINMEC). Gadh obtained his Ph.D. in Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1991, M.S. in Engineering from Cornell University, and B.S. in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Before joining UCLA, he progressed from Assistant Professor to Full Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison over seven years. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University, and held the William Mong Visiting Research Fellowship in Engineering at the University of Hong Kong.

His research interests encompass smart grids, electric vehicle and grid integration, microgrids, distributed energy resources, solar and renewable grid integration, demand response, autonomous electric vehicles, radio frequency identification (RFID), wireless sensors and sensor fusion, Internet of Things, and CAD/VR. Gadh's team developed the WINSmartEV™ and WINSmartGrid™ research platforms. He is the author of over 200 articles in journals and conference proceedings and holds five patents. Key publications include "Smart electric vehicle (EV) charging and grid integration apparatus and methods" (2015), "Distributed optimal energy management in microgrids" (2014), "Real-time energy management in microgrids" (2015), and "Solar generation prediction using the ARMA model in a laboratory-level micro-grid" (2012). Among his major awards are the NSF Early CAREER Development Award, NSF Research Initiation Award, SAE Ralph R. Teetor Research and Educational Award, ASME Fellow status, AT&T/Lucent Industrial Ecology Fellow, NSF/Lucent Industrial Ecology Fellow, ALCOA Science Support Scholar, Best Technical Paper Award from Eastman Kodak/ASME, and Best Paper (Bronze) at the 2013 IEEE International Conference on RFID Technologies and Applications. Gadh serves on the editorial boards of ACM Computers in Entertainment Publication and the CAD Journal. He has delivered keynotes, lectures, and distinguished addresses across more than 20 countries and contributed to large-scale projects such as the $120 million DOE-funded Smart Grid Regional Demonstration Program in Los Angeles.

Professional Email: rgadh@seas.ucla.edu