
Rajit Gadh
PROFESSOR
MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
Director of Smart Grid Energy Research Center (SMERC)
46-147D, Eng IV
Email: rgadh@seas.ucla.eduPhone: (310) 267-4892
Websites
RESEARCH AND INTERESTS
Smart Grid, Electric Vehicle and Grid Integration, Microgrid, Distributed Energy Resource, Solar- and renewable- grid integration, Demand Response, Autonomous Electric Vehicle, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Wireless sensors and sensor fusion, Internet of Things, CAD/VR.
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS
IN THE NEWS
- Amped Up: How smart technology is changing the face of the country's infrastructure system | Diversity in Action, April 2022
- Concerns over Russian cyberattacks against U.S. | KABC-TV, March 2022
- LA Companies Give Renters More Ways to Charge EVs | Los Angeles Business Journal, September 2021
- California’s Water and Energy Crisis Amid a Drought and Excessive Heat | Scriberr, August 2021
- Summer heat brings new challenge to electric grid | The Hill, June 2021
- CAL-ISO Urges Residents To Help Conserve Power After Historic Storm Hits Texas, Midwest | CBS KCAL Los Angeles, February 2021
- EV fast charger technology floors it | Automotive News, August 2020
EDUCATION
Carnegie Mellon University, 1991
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
- NSF/Lucent Industrial Ecology Fellow
- AT&T/Lucent Industrial Ecology Fellow
- Early CAREER Development Award, NSF
- ALCOA Science Support Scholar
- Ralph R. Teetor Research and Educational Award, SAE
- Best Technical Paper Award, Eastman Kodak/ASME
- ASME Fellow
- Research Initiation Award, National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Research Initiation Award, Engineering Foundation
- William Mong Visiting Research Fellowship in Engineering, University of Hong Kong
- Best Paper (Bronze) award at the 2013 IEEE International Conference on RFID Technologies and Applications