Advisors

Professor Kincho Law

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Structural Engineering and Engineering Informatics, Stanford University


Professor Law’s professional and research interests focus on the application of advanced computing principles and techniques to structural and facility engineering. His work has dealt with various aspects of computational science and engineering, computer aided-design, regulatory and engineering information management, and engineering enterprise integration. Examples include application of artificial intelligence, information management and internet-based technologies to facilitate engineering analysis and design processes and to coordinate concurrent engineering activities. His research interests also include computational mechanics, structural dynamics and control, structural health monitoring systems, numerical methods and analysis and simulation of large-scale systems using distributed workstations and high performance parallel computers.

Professor Frank Wolak

Director, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development; Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Senior Fellow by courtesy; Senior Fellow at FSI for International Studies and Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies in Economics


Frank A. Wolak is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. His fields of research are industrial organization and empirical economic analysis. He specializes in the study of privatization, competition and regulation in network industries such as electricity, telecommunications, water supply, natural gas and postal delivery services. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Visiting Researcher at the University of California Energy Institute in Berkeley. Professor Wolak has served as a consultant to the California and U.S. Departments of Justice on market power issues in the telecommunications, electricity, and natural gas markets. He has also served as a consultant to the Federal Communications Commission and Postal Rate Commission on issues relating to regulatory policy in network industries. Since April of 1998 Professor Wolak has been Chairman of the Market Surveillance Committee (MSC) of the California Independent System Operator. Wolak has worked on the design and regulatory oversight of the electricity markets internationally in Europe, Australia, Asia, Latin American, as well as in the US in California, New York, PJM, and New England.