• CERAWeek
  • March 18 - 22, 2024

Ian Schneider

MIT

Research Assistant, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, PhD Candidate

Ian Schneider, a graduate student at MIT, is working toward a PhD in engineering systems in the school’s Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS). Mr. Schneider’s research focuses on optimization and game theory. He is especially interested in using these tools to improve market design and policy related to renewable energy and electric power systems. Mr. Schneider is also interested in using economic principles and behavioral insights to unlock new value for retail consumers who have flexibility in how they consume electricity. He has co-authored a paper with Harvard legal scholar Cass Sunstein on time-varying electricity prices, and he has an upcoming book chapter on electricity tariff design. Mr. Schneider has worked for Google, Borrego Solar, Argonne National Laboratory, and the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E). At Borrego Solar, he developed a strategy for Borrego to earn revenue from the ability of its solar projects to improve voltage stability on the electricity grid. At ARPA-E, Mr. Schneider showed how new ideas from behavioral economics could improve the long-term business case for several research projects in ARPA-E’s portfolio. He received a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Dartmouth College and dual master’s degrees in both electrical engineering and computer science, and in technology and policy from MIT.

Sessions With Ian Schneider

Wednesday, 13 March