Dr. Rupamathi Jaddivada is the Director of Innovation and an AI energy researcher at an energy-based startup, SmartGridz. She works at the intersection of engineering and public policy to devise AI-enabled physics-backed solutions that could expedite large-scale adoption of green energy. Currently, she is developing metamodels to bring next-generation grid digitization to combat climate change. She has published over 40 papers, co-authored five books, holds three patents, and developed over seven software applications in the fields of electric energy systems and propulsion systems for aerospace. 

Prior to SmartGridz, Dr. Jaddivada was a post-doctoral researcher at MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) and a visiting researcher at the Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of Heidelberg. She holds her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Science (Minor in Machine Learning) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India. She is one of the few female graduate students and postdocs invited to MIT’s 2018 EECS Rising Star workshop, a top ranker in the 2014 Srinivasa Ramanujan Mathematics Competition, and a reviewer of several prestigious journals.