Mark's work is currently focused on: (1) plug-in hybrid electric vehicle research, development, and demonstrations in collaboration with major automotive manufacturers like the EPRI-DaimlerChrysler PHEV Sprinter Van Program; (2) advanced battery system development and testing; (3) electric charging infrastructure; and (4) environmental analysis of the air quality and greenhouse gas emissions characteristics of plug-in hybrids and other electric transportation technologies.

Prior to joining EPRI, Mark held the position of Principal Development Engineer at the Hybrid Electric Vehicle Center of the University of California, Davis. He has worked in the field of advanced transportation since 1990 and has led the development of several prototype advanced vehicles. He holds B.S and M.S degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Davis and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University.

Areas of Expertise: Electric Transportation, Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Advanced Batteries, Energy Efficiency, Mobile Emissions, Truck Stop Electrification

Mr. Alexander joined EPRI in 2004 as a Technical Specialist working on the vehicle specifications and test plan for the EPRI / DaimlerChrysler Sprinter demonstration program. As part of this program, he developed the LFM simulation library to model the behavior and control of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. This library has been continuously developed and is currently used as part of EPRI's vehicle project development process.

Before joining EPRI, Mr. Alexander worked at The MathWorks, the developers of MATLAB and Simulink, in the Engineering Development Program.

Mr. Alexander received a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Electrical Engineering, both from the University of California at Davis. While at Davis, Mark spent nearly eight years at the Hybrid Electric Vehicle Research Center working on the development of prototype plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and conducting research on hybrid powertrain design, embedded control systems, vehicle simulation, and high-voltage systems.

Andra holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from California State University at Chico.

Areas of expertise: Electric Transportation, Truck Stop Electrification, Airport Electrification, Non-Road Vehicles, Port Electrification

Sunil is currently working on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, advanced battery system development and testing and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) projects.

Prior to joining EPRI, Sunil's work since 1990 has spanned industrial, automotive and energy sectors, starting in India at Kirloskar Electric Company as Senior Engineer in AC Drives R&D, then working as a Senior Staff Engineer at General Motors' Electric and Hybrid Powertrain Engineering for about 10 years in the areas of electric motor drives application engineering, hybrid powertrain systems and controls engineering and software and controller architectures, on 2 GM EV programs and 3 hybrid powertrain programs. Later, Sunil worked for Booz Allen Hamilton's Operations Strategy practice as a management consultant in automotive and energy sectors, followed by another year at Ricardo, Inc., as a Product Group Manager in the Advanced Technology group, growing their hybrid powertrain related engineering services and delivering 5 programs to various auto OEMs, suppliers and government agencies on hybrid vehicle analysis/modeling, component sourcing, technology advisory and cost/benefit analysis.

Sunil holds B.S in Power Electronics from Saurashtra University and an MSEE from Indian Institute of Technology, India, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, both specializing in Power Electronics and AC Drives. Sunil also has an MBA from the University of Michigan Business School at Ann Arbor, in Strategic Management and Commercialization of Technology.

Sunil is a member of SAE, holds 4 US / global patents in hybrid powertrain control algorithms area and 3 GM awards for technical excellence.

Prior to joining the Electric Transportation Group in EPRI, Arindam Maitra worked as a Senior Project Manager in the System Analysis and System Studies Group at EPRI (previously EPRI Solutions and EPRI PEAC). He was responsible for conducting and managing a wide range of research activities and power system studies in the transmission, distribution, PQ, and IntelliGrid research areas. He has managed a variety of projects related to reliability improvement, power electronic development efforts, indices for describing power quality and reliability performance, and load model development. He was also the project leader for a variety of load modeling research projects, including the projects involving air conditioner testing, at EPRI Solutions. He has supervised the development of advanced load models based on air conditioner test results and based on actual field measurements of aggregated load response to disturbances.

His contribution areas over the years in EPRI have included power electronics work in the Advanced Distribution Automation program (Intelligent Universal Transformer and Solid State Switch projects, including a two accepted patents for the Intelligent Universal Transformer design topology and 4 pending patents in solid state switchgear topology and Intelligent Universal Transformer control architecture), advanced load modeling work for transmission system modeling, Neutral-to-voltage model development, development of tools for statistical analysis of power quality and reliability performance, and a variety of other power system studies activities.

He received his B.E. from R.E.C. Nagpur in 1995 and holds a M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Mississippi State University in 1997 and 2002, respectively. He has authored and co-authored numerous technical papers on such topics.

Areas of expertise: power systems, power electronics, load modeling, power system infrastructure requirements for Plug-in Hybrids

Karen holds a Bachelor of Arts from San Jose State University.