Albert is a pioneer in far-reaching energy R&D involving intelligent systems and machine learning in electrical power, renewable energy, smart buildings, smart grids, and smart cities for over 20 years. Albert consults broadly on technical strategy for other entities who like to adopt World Team Now’s goals to live sustainably with our collective resources. Albert takes a whole-systems view and specializes in the data-driven machine intelligence components to achieve sustainability in the face of increasing challenges due to climate-change-driven increasing extremes and variability and the need for more agile management of resources as the world transitions to renewables. Albert is able to consult with a broad range of entities, from individual companies to NGOs, city, state, and country governments, and global organizations such as the United Nations. He has 35 plus years of professional experience at BBN Laboratories, Columbia University and World Team Now.
Albert has worked on adaptive stochastic control for smart grids and microgrids as well as a co-inventor of a computer-aided lean management methodology (CALM) for the energy industry to take on the agility challenges of operating in a more uncertain world, Computer Aided Lean Management for the Energy Industry, PennWell Books 2008. Albert has worked on developing the data-driven machine intelligence for smart grids, smart buildings, and smart grid applications. He has worked on optimizing electric vehicle charging schedules to level out loads using machine learning and also vehicle-to-vehicle charging using inductive coupling and is a co-author with Suzanne Maxx of a review paper on vehicle electrification, “Vehicle electrification: Status and Issues,” Proceedings of the IEEE, 2011, vol. 99, no. 6, pp. 1116–1138. He is a co-author of one book, more than 60 publications, and over 10 patents.
