Elena Berman, Phd Email & Phone Number

Sunnyvale, California, Us

Insight M is a consultative methane emissions management company driven by our unwavering commitment to scientific rigor and overall customer success. We are the energy industry’s leader in high-frequency aerial methane detection. Our work has saved our oil and gas customers over $500 million in gas value and mitigated over 140 billion cubic feet of methane from entering the atmosphere—equivalent to taking 54 million gas cars off the road for a year. • Responsible for all technology at Insight M, including research and development, data science, software engineering, and hardware engineering • Integrate disparate departments into a single, focused technology team• Provide customers with actionable data to plan a pragmatic methane strategy and manage their methane emissions• Drive the overall roadmap for new and existing sensing products, data analytics, and new business opportunities• Lead government-sponsored grant strategy

Sunnyvale, California, Us

• Architect overall science and technology strategy and drive the overall roadmap for new and existing sensing products, data analytics, and new business opportunities• Manage all aspects of research, development, data science, and hardware engineering • Develop and refine methodologies, metrics, and data collection to provide accurate, reliable, and defensible data-based measurements and analytics• Architect and owner of core methane signal extraction algorithm• Interface with the scientific community to drive forward the scientific understanding of methane emissions

Sunnyvale, California, Us

• Lead research and development team • Create new and improved sensors, improve data analytics, and assess feasibility of new products.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

San Jose, California, Us

• Identify, develop, and implement research projects that create new technology and/or applications.• Manage financial and administrative closeout of SBIR research projects.• Manage the full life cycle of research projects, setting priorities and managing competing tasks to ensure that the highest value projects receive sufficient resources.• Allocate personnel and other resources among current projects to deliver successful projects on time and on budget.Los Gatos Research develops instrumentation based on cavity enhanced laser absorption spectroscopy for real-time measurements of trace gases, isotopes, pollutants, and fluxes. LGR products include analyzers for rapid, accurate measurements of critical greenhouse gases (GHG) and pollutants (including methane, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, carbon monoxide) and isotope ratios in liquid water and in gas samples. www.lgrinc.com

San Jose, California, Us

• Manage entire life cycle of scientific research and commercialization projects ( >$6M in total projects) and PhD level scientists. • Design and build analytical instrumentation and apply those developments to cutting-edge scientific problems. • Perform data analytics and statistics, report scientific findings via patents, publications, and conferences, and write grant proposals.

San Jose, California, Us

• Funded principal investigator (NIH, NASA, and DOE)• Designed experiments, wrote grant proposals, managed entire life cycle of funded projects• Demonstrated leadership and management of projects (>2M$) and scientists• Developed and deployed custom Off-Axis ICOS and TDLAS analyzers for trace gas and isotope studies• Designed, developed, and deployed a custom medical device for dramatic improvements to doubly labeled water measurements of total energy expenditure in humans using 17O isotope measurements• Designed, tested, and field deployed custom analyzers for greenhouse-gas analysis aboard unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)• Refined, tested, and field deployed a custom analyzer for high-frequency stream, precipitation, and snowmelt water isotope hydrology

Livermore, Ca, Us

Applied Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) to varied biological problems including effects of radiation on single cells, cancer prognosis, cellular differentiation, and microbial metabolomics.• Developed sample preparation methods for cell and tissue imaging mass spectrometry.• Performed multivariate statistical analyses in MatLAB (PLS toolbox) and R.• Analyzed GC/MS SPME data of polymer samples using advanced chemometrics.• Communicated results via grants, publications, oral presentations, and posters.

Stanford, Ca, Us

• Designed and implemented a miniaturized and inexpensive liquid cavity ring-down spectroscopy experiment. • Designed and developed software for high speed (faster than 1 kHz) data collection and analysis.• Applied this new instrumentation to detection of water in organics and to the study of chemical kinetics in the liquid phase.

Rahway, New Jersey, Us

• Tested solubilities of potential pharmaceutical products.

Phd, Physical Chemistry

Bs, Chemistry, Applied Mathematics