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Ravi Prasher Appointed as Director of Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division

June 23, 2015

Ravi Prasher, a former ARPA-E program director and expert on thermal energy processes, has been named the first director of the Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division (ESDR), in the Energy Technologies Area (ETA).

Most recently, Prasher was the vice-president of product development at Sheetak Inc., a thermoelectric startup in Austin, Texas. Before that he spent nearly three years at ARPA-E (DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy) as one of its first program directors, overseeing projects in two areas—building energy efficiency and thermal storage for a variety of applications.

Prasher is a mechanical engineer and a material scientist by training. His research spans thermal energy processes at the nanoscale to macroscale systems. He has worked extensively on phonon physics in nanostructured materials and devices with particular emphasis on the impact of interfaces at the nanoscale.

At Intel, where he worked more than 10 years, he was technology development manager of the thermal management group. He has also been adjunct professor at the College of Engineering at Arizona State University.

Prasher has published more than 85 scholarly papers and holds more than 30 patents. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a recipient of the Intel Achievement Award (Intel’s highest award for technical achievement), and a recipient of IEEE’s Outstanding Young Engineer Award.

He holds a Ph.D. from Arizona State and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.

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Julie Chao