Graduate Student Interns

STG is grateful for the contributions of graduate students currently involved in various aspects of our work while pursuing degrees. Michael Street (Georgia Tech) is developing demand side models for thermal loads, while Kevin Simon (MIT) and Matthias Mitterhofer (TUM) are working on systems level integrated models and Tamer Teker is developing improved understanding of energy usage patterns of rural users.  In 2013 Pardeep Garg (IISc Bangalore) worked on thermal storage modeling and Melissa Ireland (M.Sc. ’14, MIT) wrote her masters thesis on dynamic modeling of STG’s micro-CSP plant at Eckerd College. RemiDickes, a PhD student at U. Liege, conducted M.Sc thesis work on scroll expander prototyping during a 6-month internship at MIT in 2013. Bertrand Dechesne (M.Sc. ’12, U. Liege) contributed significantly to model and CAD design to support scroll expander design, following up on the initial work of Christian Muller and Alex Fanderl (M.Sc. ’11, Technicial University of Munich).

On the business side, STG is currently hosting an impressive team of students from the NYU Wagner School to work on market analysis for solar microgrids.  In 2009, Harvard MBA student Teresa Chia  made valuable contributions to our strategy and value proposition and led the team through several business plan competitions.  In 2007, a team of Sloan students (Eric Espino, Poulomi Chakrabarti, and now STG Director Bryan Urban) conducted STG’s first market assessment in Lesotho as part of MIT’s G-Lab.