PNNL

Dr. Ron Melton is a senior technical advisor in the Electricity Infrastructure and Buildings Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and the former group leader of the Distributed Systems Group. He has experience as a senior power systems researcher and project manager as the principal investigator for the DOE Advanced Grid Research project for an ADMS Open-Source Platform. He is a member of the core team for the DOE Grid Architecture project, and Administrator Emeritus of the GridWise® Architecture Council. He was the project director of the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration that concluded in June 2015. He has 10 years of experience in cyber security for critical infrastructure systems and over 30 years of experience applying computer technology to a variety of engineering and scientific problems. Dr. Melton is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery. He is the past chair the IEEE Power and Energy Society Smart Buildings, Loads, and Customer Systems Technical Committee and the Smart Electric Power Alliance Grid Architecture Working Group. Dr. Melton received his BSEE from University of Washington and his MS and PhD in Engineering Science from the California Institute of Technology.