Contact
Daniel Lawrence Wilson, 120 Blum Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 | dlwilson@berkeley.edu
Resume/CV
Education
| University of California, Berkeley M.S. Mechanical Engineering, May 2012 Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Expected May 2016 National Science Foundation Fellow GPA: 3.94 |
Colorado State University B.S. Mechanical Engineering, May 2008 Secondary Teacher’s License, December 2008 Summa Cum Laude & University Honors Scholar GPA: 4.0 |
Research Interests
Cookstoves, biomass combustion, and tropospheric black carbon soot.
Tools
The SUMSARIZER
ASUMS
Honors and Awards
| National Science Foundation Fellow Fulbright Fellow UC Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Society of Automotive Engineers’ Most Innovative Design Award |
Colorado State University’s Outstanding Engineer Award Colorado Distinguished Scholar Hewlett Packard Scholar Award-Winning Photographer |
Publications
D. L. Wilson, D. R. Talancon, R. L. Winslow, X. Linares, and A. Gadgil, “Life cycle assessment shows carbon savings from a fuel-efficient biomass cookstove dwarf embodied carbon emissions,” Energy for Sustainable Development, 2016, pp. 45-52..
D. L. Wilson, M. I. Adam, O. Abbas, J. Coyle, A. Kirk, J. Rosa, and A. J. Gadgil, “Comparing Cookstove Usage Measured with Sensors Versus Cell Phone-Based Surveys in Darfur, Sudan,” in Technologies for Development: What is Essential?, no. 20, S. Hostettler, E. Hazbourn, and J.-C. Bolay, Eds. New York: Springer International Publishing, 2015, pp. 211–221.
R. Goel, S. Gani, S. K. Guttikunda, and D. L. Wilson, “On-road PM2.5 Pollution Exposure in Multiple Transport Microenvironments in Delhi,” Atmospheric Environment, 2015.
A. Kipf, W. Brunette, J. Kellerstrass, M. Podolsky, J. Rosa, M. Sundt, D. L. Wilson, G. Borriello, E. Brewer, and E. Thomas, “A proposed integrated data collection, analysis and sharing platform for impact evaluation,” Development Engineering, pp. 1–9, Dec. 2015.
P. M. Amsellem, E.L. Egger, and D. L. Wilson, “Bending Characteristics of Polymethylmethacrylate Columns, Connecting Bars of Carbon Fiber, Titanium, and Stainless Steel Used in External Skeletal Fixation and an Acrylic Interface,” Veterinary Surgery, vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 631–637, Mar. 2010.
Videos
Stove Use Monitors
High Altitude Balloon
Powered Wheelchair from Bicycle and Motorcycle Parts
Lung Cancer Ablation
Experience
University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Graduate Student Researcher, 2010-present
Fulbright Fellow, India, 2014
NSF Fellow, 2011-2016
Graduate Student Instructor, 2010-2011
- Created novel sensors for monitoring cookstove adoption in Sudan, Ethiopia, and India
- Designed a user-friendly machine learning interface for detecting events in time series data
- Designed novel balloon-borne high-altitude black carbon monitoring platform
- Tested emissions performance of existing cookstoves and designed novel new cookstoves
- Built and commissioned the world’s leading cookstove aerosol science laboratory
- Performed life cycle assessment of cookstove a product and supply chain
- Developed STEM-outreach program for Pinoleville Pomo Nation (tribe)
Persistent Efficiency
Chief Technology Officer, 2015-2016
- Designed and implemented first-of-its-kind passive sensing system for IOT electricity monitoring
- Managed 8-person team including product design, software, hardware, and manufacturing
- Won the 2015 Clean Tech Open accelerator western division competition
- Secured $1.5 million in investment capital
- Reduced hardware costs 70%
- Sold over 1000 sensors across the United States
- Built sophisticated backend and frontend capable of handling millions of daily requests and hundreds of terabytes of stored data
- Guided data science team to develop actionable insights for customers
Triumph Aerospace Systems
Aerospace Systems and Design Engineer, 2009-2010
- Lead systems and design engineer for Airbus A350 emergency landing gear extension system
- Lead research engineer on redesign of electromechanical brake actuator for Boeing 787
- Co-wrote RFI and RFP and won contract for gimbal actuator on Lockheed dirigible
- Headed technical presentations for three design reviews with Airbus and Messier-Bugatti
Poudre High School
High School Technology Student Teacher, 2008
- High school technology (SolidWorks, machining, robotics) teacher
- Lead instructor of the 160-student STEM Institute clean energy and robotics program
- Author of two STEM curricula for the secondary-school classroom (downloaded over 10k times)
Covidien
Radiosurgery Research and Development Intern, 2007
- Developed bench-top model for testing radiofrequency and microwave antenna systems
- Soft tissue radiofrequency and microwave cancer ablation research
- Studied viability of microwave cancer ablation systems in highly-porous vascular tissue