David Fork
David Fork is a Renewable Energy Technologist at Google where he did solar receiver assessment on the Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal project and intelligent inverter control on the Bottom up Grid (BUG) projects. He also designed the Google Bike. He currently serves within Google’s Climate and Energy Team. Before Google he was a Principal Scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) where he was instrumental in several start up ventures, including two in solar energy. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Rochester in 1987 with degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering. He completed his Ph.D. from Stanford University in Applied Physics in 1991.
His work on electronic materials and devices includes complex oxide epitaxial thin films, laser crystallized display materials, organic electroluminescent devices, semiconductor LEDs and lasers, electronic imaging systems, micro-electromechanical systems and photovoltaic devices. His work at Google has covered topics including solar energy, power conversion, fusion, low carbon fuels, and remote sensing. Dr. Fork holds over 80 issued US patents and has authored over 100 publications.
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General Geospatial Inference with a Population Dynamics Foundation Model
Chaitanya Kamath
Prithul Sarker
Joydeep Paul
Yael Mayer
Sheila de Guia
Jamie McPike
Adam Boulanger
David Schottlander
Yao Xiao
Manjit Chakravarthy Manukonda
Monica Bharel
Von Nguyen
Luke Barrington
Niv Efron
Krish Eswaran
Shravya Shetty
(2024) (to appear)
A human-labeled Landsat contrails dataset
Vincent Rudolf Meijer
Erica Wickstrom Brand
Carl Elkin
ICML workshop on Climate Change 2021 (2021)
Calorimetry under non-ideal conditions using system identification
B. P. MacLeod
B. Lam
C. P. Berlinguette
Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 138 (2019), pp. 3139-3157
Revisiting the cold case of cold fusion
Curtis Berlinguette
Jeremy Munday
Matt Trevithick
Thomas Schenkel
Yet-Ming Chiang
Nature (2019)
Accurate Coulometric Quantification of Hydrogen Absorption in Palladium Nanoparticles and Thin Films
Rebecca Sherbo
Marta Moreno
Noah Johnson
David Dvorak
Curtis Berlinguette
Chemistry of Materials (2018)
High-temperature high-pressure calorimeter for studying gram-scale heterogeneous chemical reactions
B. P. MacLeod
P. A. Schauer
K. Hu
B. Lam
C. P. Berlinguette
Reviews of Scientific Instruments, 88 (2017), pp. 084101
PowerNet for distributed Energy Resources
Anand Ramesh
Sangsun Kim
Jim Schmalzried
Jyoti Sastry
Michael Dikovsky {{+mdikovsky
Konstantin Bozhkov
Eduardo Pinheiro
Scott Collyer
Ankit Somani
Ram Rajagopal
Arun Majumdar
Junjie Qin
Gustavo Cezar
Juan Rivas
Abbas El Gamal
Dian Gruenich
Steven Chu
Sila Kiliccote
Conference: 2016 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), IEEE Power and Energy Society, Boston, MA, USA (2016)
Optimal trajectory control for parallel single phase H-bridge inverters
Seungil You
Decision and Control (CDC), 2015 IEEE 54th Annual Conference on, IEEE, pp. 1983 - 1990
What It Would Really Take to Reverse Climate Change
IEEE Spectrum December 2014, IEEE, 3 Park Ave, 17th floor, New York, NY 10016-5997, pp. 30-35
