Dr. Rajit Gadh is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and the founding director of both the UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center and the Wireless Internet for Mobile Enterprise Consortium. The Center supports the development of the next generation of the electric utility grid. The Consortium is a university, industry and government collaboration that supports technological and business research and education.
Dr. Gadh has taught as a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley, has been a professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison and did his sabbatical as a visiting researcher at Stanford University. Dr. Gadh is on the editorial board of Computers in Entertainment and the CAD Journal.
His research includes smart grids, microgrids, electric vehicle to grid integration, electric vehicles and autonomous vehicles, smart transportation, AI and machine learning in electric vehicle and autonomous vehicle management.
Dr. Gadh has won several awards from the National Science Foundation (Faculty Early Career Development Program, or CAREER, award, Research Initiation Award, etc.), the Society of Automotive Engineers (Ralph Teetor educational award), IEEE (Wireless Telecommunications Symposium student paper award), ASME (Kodak Best Technical Paper award), AT&T (Industrial Ecology Fellow award), Engineering Education Foundation (Research Initiation award) and a William Wong Fellowship award from the University of Hong Kong.