Scott Moura

Scott Moura is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the Director of the Energy, Controls, & Applications Lab (eCAL) and the Berkeley ITS Acting Faculty Director. His research interests include modeling, estimation, and control of energy systems, vehicle electrification, and distributed energy resources. Moura holds a B.S. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has held postdoctoral and visiting research positions at the Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics and the Centre Automatique et Systèmes. His work focuses on control, optimization, and AI for batteries, electrified vehicles, and distributed energy resources.

Scott Moura is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in Control Systems, Batteries, Electric Vehicles, and Smart Grid technologies. His research focuses on optimizing energy management systems for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, integrating stochastic control methods with battery state estimation and thermal management. Moura also explores decentralized optimization techniques for microgrid networks and smart home energy systems, leveraging blockchain technology. His work emphasizes the integration of physics-based modeling with machine learning for lithium-ion batteries, addressing challenges in battery aging, degradation, and fault diagnostics. Additionally, he investigates the coupling of urban mobility with EV charging profiles and power network optimization.