Dr. Rajit Gadh is Co-Founder of MOEV Inc. (http://www.moevinc.com) and Professor of the Samueli School of Engineering at UCLA, and Director of the Smart Grid Energy Research Center(SMERC). He has taught at UC Berkeley, and University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was a visiting researcher at Stanford University. Dr. Gadh has over 250 publications in electric vehicle (EV) charging and aggregation, smart grids, Vehicle-to-grid, Demand Response, Microgrids, wireless communications, virtual reality, and RFID. Dr. Gadh is author of multiple patents. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He has received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, NSF Research Initiation Award, and, NSF-Lucent Industry Ecology Fellow Award, Society of Automotive Engineers Ralph R. Teetor Educational award, ASME Kodak Best Technical Paper award, AT&T Industrial ecology fellow award, Engineering Education Foundation Research Initiation Award, the William Mong Fellowship from University of Hong Kong, and other accolades in his career. Dr. Gadh has a Doctorate degree from Carnegie Mellon University, a Masters from Cornell University and a Bachelor's degree from IIT Kanpur all in engineering.