Dr. Roger N. Anderson
Roger N. Anderson is Doherty Senior Scholar at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory and an adjunct Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. He also holds a joint appointment at Columbia’s Center for Computational Learning Systems in the Fu School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a visiting Professorship in Urban Infrastructure Engineering and Management at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. Roger teaches Planet Earth, a science requirement course at Columbia College, he co-founded the Alternative Energy Course at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, and he teaches Lean Management at Polytech. He has taught numerous industrial courses to international utilities and oil companies, and has lectured all over the world.
Roger is Principal Investigator of a collaborative team of scientists and graduate students in computer sciences from Columbia and engineers from Con Edison developing intelligent control software for the future electric grid of New York City, called the Edison Program. At Lamont, Roger founded the International Ocean Drilling Program’s Borehole Research Group, the Global Basins Research Network, and 4D Seismic Reservoir Simulation, Portfolio Management, and Energy Research Groups. Roger received his Ph.D. from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California at San Diego, and his M.S. and B.S. from the University of Oklahoma in Geophysics. Roger is an inventor of 10 Patents, and has written 3 books, including the August, 2008 release of Computer-Aided Lean Management for the Energy Industry from PennWell Press. He has written more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and science and opinion pieces for publications such as CIO Insight, Discover, Economist, EnergyBiz, Forbes, National Geographic, Nature, the New York Times, Oil and Gas Journal, Scientific American, the Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Roger assisted in the design of the Wiess Energy Hall at the Houston Museum of Natural History, was technical consultant for the NBC News/Discovery Channel documentary “Anatomy of a Blackout,” and has been a frequent contributor on energy matters to radio and TV.
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Albert Boulanger
Albert Boulanger is co-founder and Chairman of the Board of CALM Energy, Inc. and a member of the board at the not-for-profit environmental and social organization Team World Corps. He is a Senior Staff Associate at Columbia University’s Center for Computational Learning Systems, and before that, at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. For the past 12 years at Columbia, Albert has been involved in far reaching energy research and development- in oil and gas and electricity. He held the CTO position of vPatch Technologies, Inc., a start up company commercializing a computational approach to efficient production of oil from reservoirs based on time-lapse 4D seismic technologies. Prior to coming to Lamont, Albert spent twelve years doing contract R&D at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman (now BBN Technologies). His specialties are complex systems integration and intelligent computational reasoning that interacts with humans within large scale systems. Albert started his career working for a cloud seeding group at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) during high school and college at the University of Florida.
John A. Johnson
John A. Johnson is co-founder and CEO of CALM Energy, Inc. He has twenty years experience in electric utility operations, engineering, strategy, and mergers & acquisitions. He started his career as an electrical engineer and worked in most areas of an electric utility including power plant operations & maintenance, nuclear plant technical services, transmission & substation technical services, controls engineering, electric distribution operations, electric system operations, energy management, and strategic planning. He received a Bachelor of Engineering from SUNY Maritime College and a MBA in finance from the Stern School of Business at New York University. He is a registered professional engineer in New York State.
Arthur Kressner
Arthur Kressner is the Director of Research and Development, Power Supply, at the Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., where he is responsible for developing and managing R&D for Con Edison and Orange and Rockland Utilities. He manages a professional staff developing technology for the transmission, distribution, control center operations, substations, customer operations and energy efficiency business units. This research is focused on the development and demonstration of new power delivery equipment, software models, sensors, feasibility and engineering studies. Artie has extensive experience in technology transfer and management of results oriented organizations. Among his responsibilities during his career at Con Edison he has been the Chief Chemical Engineer and Plant Manager of Arthur Kill and Ravenswood Power Generating Stations. Artie has been in leadership roles at local, state and national levels in areas of energy policy, energy efficiency, customer end-use and various national environmental and public health programs. He is serving on several boards of directors of not-for-profits, participated in industry advisory groups, community boards and regulatory panels. Artie has published papers and articles in peer reviewed technical journals and industry magazines related to energy efficiency, information technology, management and computer modeling. He is a graduate engineer with a Bachelor degree from Brooklyn Polytechnic and Masters from New York University.