Karanjit Kalsi

Biography

Karanjit Kalsi is the Principal Engineer and Technical Team Lead (TTL) for the Optimization and Controls Group at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Over the past 8 years, Dr. Kalsi has led the development of a unique capability at PNNL around the application of control theory to a rapidly changing, more complex, and more distributed energy system. He has made pioneering contributions in the area of distributed control for enhanced bulk power system stability and distribution system reliability, as well as market-based techniques for integration of buildings and distributed energy resources with the electric grid.

Currently, at PNNL, Dr. Kalsi has technical responsibility and management oversight for approximately $9 million annually in control-related projects that impact several DOE agencies, including the Building Technologies Office (BTO), Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) and Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). He also has a robust publication record of more than 50 papers in high-impact journals with more than 1,100 citations, earning an h-index of 21. He is also currently a visiting faculty member at the California Institute of Technology, where he partners with faculty on the topic of safety-critical controls for complex infrastructure systems. Dr. Kalsi received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2010 and his M.Eng in Electronic Engineering from the University of Sheffield in 2006.