News

2025

Adam Abdi, our REU student of 2025, just did an excellent job in his poster presentation. Adams has been working on Estimating Power Outages in Ghana to Inform Power System Modeling with Faustina and Dr. Baker this summer.

Check out Chris’s personal website: https://chernandeznegron.github.io/.

Christian just accepted a position as an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering, Analytics and Engineering Management at California State University – East Bay (CSUEB), School of Engineering!
Chris is from Puerto Rico where he obtained a B.S. in Civil Engineering and B.S. in Land Surveying and Topography from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. He earned a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the same institution. His interest is interdisciplinary research in renewable energy and decision science field focused on the technological change of power/energy and water systems.

E3Lab members presenting at 2025 Energy Symposium at UMass. Another fruitful year!
Congratulations! Vivian received the 2025 College of Engineering Celebrating Community Award for outstanding contributions at the student level. This award recognizes individuals contributions towards building a supportive and engaged engineering community both within and outside of the university, especially those that go above and beyond their scholarly work.

2024

E3Lab members having a get-together before the fall semester kicks off. Welcome Faustina to join the lab family!

Paola Pimentel Furlanetto will be honored with the Commitment to Diversity Award during the UMass Amherst Graduate Commencement ceremony at McGuirk Alumni Stadium. Well deserved, Paola! (Link)

2023

Jonisha, Paola, and Vivian did an amazing job on the organization committee of the 2023 Equitable Energy Transitions in Caribbean Islands Workshop in St Thomas. Check the exciting event out on the local news!
VIvian speaking as the student representative at the ground breaking event of Sustainable Engineering Laboratory
Jonisha is awarded the 2023 College of Engineering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award
Congratulations Prof. Baker for being recognized as the Distinguished Faculty of UMASS!
View the lecture on Climate Change Solutions: Finding Common Ground When Experts and Models Disagree here.

2022

Prof. Baker ‘s TED talk on Energy Justice
PhD student Yiwen Wang as one of the five poster competition winners at 11th C3E Women in Clean Energy Symposium for her work on technological changes.
Block Farm Tour – trip to the first US offshore wind farm organized by Christian, August 2022
REU student Emma Soto presenting her project on Electrifying Heat and Grid Integration, July 2022:
This project looks at optimizing the use of hydronic heat pumps and hot water buffer tanks to shift the demand of electricity to more closely match renewable energy’s availability and reduce peaks and ramps in demand.
Lab members presenting at the Energy Transition Symposium, May 2022