John Gueringer

Undergraduate, Illinois Institute of Technology

Research Assistant, RDCEP

 

 

John is currently an undergraduate at the Illinois Institute of Technology studying Computer Science.  Prior to joining as a Research Assistant, John was also a Summer REU intern in 2014 and a Summer Scholar from 2012-2013.  His past projects included a renewable portfolio standards webtool, which was designed to calculate the mandated amount of electricity that is to come from renewable sources, and city energy usage, which analyzed city data to determine what areas and buildings in Chicago used the most energy.

Currently, John is working for RDCEP as a research assistant on a city data validation project.

Mark He

Undergraduate, Depts. of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Chicago

 

Mark currently works as a Research Associate at the Neuroscience Department of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Center for Functional Imaging). He studied math and statistics at the University of Chicago previously and is still in the process of wrapping up his research at RDCEP in his spare time. 

Jevgenijs Steinbuks

Economist

Development Research Group

World Bank

Areas of Expertise:

  • Global land use modeling
  • Energy demand and efficiency
  • Applied computational economics and econometrics

Steinbuks is a research associate in the Center for Global Trade Analysis at Purdue University, the home of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP), where he currently works on an optimal allocation of global land use under uncertainty and irreversibility constraints. His other research interests include the economic analysis of energy and climate policies, energy efficiency, inter-fuel substitution, renewable energy and the electric power. Steinbuks has an extensive experience in a variety of applied computational and econometric methods.

Before joining the Center for Global Trade Analysis, he was a researcher at the Electricity Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge, and served as a consultant to the World Bank. Steinbuks received his PhD in Economics from the George Washington University in 2008.

Research Projects

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