Working to design and implement a regulations to reduce GHG emissions for hard-to-decarbonize industries, and GHG emissions associated with California's built environment.

- Oversaw development of in-house modeling capacity at CARB to help inform regulatory decisions for California’s largest carbon markets.- Led target setting and other regulatory development for California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard- Created the California Transportation Supply (CATS) model used by the agency to determine target setting and policy direction for the Low Carbon Fuel Standard.- Trained and collaborated with staff to use models and data to inform climate policy and… Show more - Oversaw development of in-house modeling capacity at CARB to help inform regulatory decisions for California’s largest carbon markets.- Led target setting and other regulatory development for California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard- Created the California Transportation Supply (CATS) model used by the agency to determine target setting and policy direction for the Low Carbon Fuel Standard.- Trained and collaborated with staff to use models and data to inform climate policy and regulatory development- Subject matter expert within the Industrial Strategies Division to support regulatory development activity for fuel and climate regulations, low-carbon technology transitions, and carbon dioxide removal strategies Show less

- Led regulatory work, conducted policy evaluation, mathematical modeling, and research activity associated with California's Climate policies. Led target setting and other regulatory development for California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard- Developed internal capacity at CARB to assess impacts that electricity rates and renewable electricity markets have on industrial decarbonization, building electrification, and electrification of the transportation sector.- Led model development and… Show more - Led regulatory work, conducted policy evaluation, mathematical modeling, and research activity associated with California's Climate policies. Led target setting and other regulatory development for California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard- Developed internal capacity at CARB to assess impacts that electricity rates and renewable electricity markets have on industrial decarbonization, building electrification, and electrification of the transportation sector.- Led model development and analysis activity to inform decarbonization regulations and programs across CARB. Show less

- Energy and Climate Policy Researcher at UC Davis. - Conducted research to better understand the drivers for technology innovation. - Pioneered new research methodologies for evaluating policy efficacy for innovation outcomes.- Developed Renewable Energy teaching curriculum for K-12 students- Taught and introduced climate change curriculum into middle schools in the greater Sacramento area

- Co-founder and Chief Analytics Officer at FoodFul.ly. - Foodful.ly was a web-based service and mobile application designed to empower grocery shoppers by automatically collecting data associated with grocery store purchases and using advanced spoilage algorithms to inform users when they had food that was about to spoil.

Conducted research primarily concerned with technology innovation and diffusion, and the role of policies in influencing alternative fuel and alternative fuel vehicle adoption and deployment.

Developed Smart Deployment policy approaches to intelligently drive technological innovation and cost reductions alongside deployment of renewable energy solutions.

Conducted research and developed molecular models and simulations of a solar photocatalytic reactor for the purpose of renewable energy production.

Research position at the National Renewable Energy Lab. Conducted research on producing ethanol from cellulosic and non-food-based biomass resources like lignin.