Conferences & Professional Development

Professor Soneji attends many workshops, conferences and other professional development activities to help inform and improve his teaching and department activities. this page is constantly being updated...

Key Speaking Engagements

• CPUC: PICG: Transportation Electrification Workstream #1 (September 30, 2020)

• SEPA Grid Evolution Summit 2020 (July 28-30, 2020)

  • Panel: Improving EV Charging Infrastructure to Maintain Grid Reliability and Accelerate a Carbon-Free Energy System

• Prospect SV Innovation and Impact Symposium 2019 (June 19, 2019)

  • Panel Session: Power Grab: Fleets go Electric

• CARB Zero-Emission Bus Technology Showcase and Symposium (February 6-7, 2019)

  • Session 2.1. Electricity Costs and Best Practice

• CEC School Bus - (August 2019)

  • Webinar - What to Expect With Your New Electric School Bus

• Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo 2019

  • Connected Technology III: Understanding the Use Cases and Opportunities of V2G

• Numerous California Energy Commission Technical Advisory Committees. 

Key Workshop, Conferences, and Other Engagements

2023:

• Verge 2023

• LBNL E-School Bus TAC

2022:

• Judge. International Clean Tech Open 

2021:

• Judge. International Clean Tech Open 

2019:

• Bloom Energy's ASPIRE Forum 2019 

2018:

• • Aug: IEEE PES General Meeting, Portland, CA

2016

• • Feb: IEEE PES: Power Quality Impacts and Mitigation of Distributed Solar Power

  • Jan: IEEE PES: Managing Distributed Energy Resources on the Grid

2015

• • Oct 2015: UC Solar Research Symposium, Attendee, SF, CA

  • Fall 2015: Continued involvement in power systems game development.

  • For the summer of 2015, I was invited to the Context-Based RET Program at UC Berkeley as a Visiting Fellow for nine weeks of research and curriculum development in the Energy and Resources Group under the direction of Professor Duncan Callaway; see http://erg.berkeley.edu/people/callaway-duncan/.  I worked mostly with Michael A. Cohen, a UC Berkeley PhD student, on the development of an educational video game about power systems called "Griddle";  see http://erg.berkeley.edu/people/michael-cohen/.  I hope to soon integrate this game (or learning from my work) into ENRG 3, ENGN 38, and ENGN 10A.

    • I focused on the development of a dynamic constrained dispatch model for electricity producers in the grid. This is a fairly intense optimization problem because of factors such as: varying demand; unclear optimal operating points for generators, various costs for generators, GHG emissions, other pollution, ramping up and ramping down constraints, variability of renewables, etc.  

    • See Final Poster, PDF attached at the very bottom of this page.

    • In addition I worked along with / advised two other undergraduate students who joined the project for the summer. These projects were also very interesting and challenging: (1) The dynamic synthesis of a City or Region's electricity load model: i.e. how much electricity that city will use each minute in a day based on population, industry, weather, etc, etc... (2) A pollution dispersal model: how would pollutants spread from the powerplant based on emissions and local weather patterns.

  • March: Had a new baby!

2014

• • Dec: Materials Research Society Workshop on "Impact of Materials on Society". Workshop to disseminate a materials and sustainability course at CCSF. Sponsored by NSF. Boston, MA

  • Oct: National Science Foundation, Advanced Technology Education Conference, Co-PI, Washington, D.C.

• Oct: 2014 UC Solar Research Symposium, Attendee, SF, CA

• Oct: IEEE PES: Fall Meeting: Electric Power Industry Visions & Experiences from an IEEE Power & Energy Society Past President, Wanda Reder, SF, CA

• Sept: Energy Policy Research Conference, Sept 4-5, SF, CA

• Aug: IEEE PES: Flywheel Energy Storage: Balancing the Grid & Winning Le Mans (Seminar / Helix Power startup)

• May: IEEE PES: Potection and Controls Workshop, better accommodating renewable energy. (workshop)

• May: NFIC The future of online education

• March: IEEE PES Behind-The-Meter Electric Storage Seminar

2013

• • October: National Science Foundation, Advanced Technology Education Conference, Co-PI, Washington, D.C.

  • August: IEEE PES: System Protection for Electric Utilities Seminar, Attendee, San Francisco, CA

  • August: Lead America Engineering Program, Invited Speaker, Topic: Sustainability and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley.

2012

• • July 24-26: National Science Foundation, Systems, Society, Sustainability and the Geosciences Workshop, Participant, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. http://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/workshops/sustainability2012/index.html

  • October: National Science Foundation, Advanced Technology Education Conference, Co-PI, Washington, D.C.

2011

2010

• • July 11-24: Santa Fe Institute, Global Sustainability Summer School, participant, Santa Fe, New Mexico. http://www.santafe.edu/education/schools/global-sustainability/gsss10/

2009