Global Community Summit

Dr. Paul Stackhouse is the lead scientist of the NASA Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Project, affliated with the World Climate Research Programme's (WCRP) Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX), that produces and assesses long-term surface radiative flux components from satellite radiance, cloud, aerosol and ancillary atmospheric and surface information. Dr. Stackhouse is a science team member of the Clouds and Earth Radiant Energy System project (CERES) where he leads the FLASHFlux (Fast Longwave and Shortwave radiative Fluxes from CERES and MODIS) working group producing global radiative fluxes at low latency. He also leads and/or collaborates in other studies related radiative budgets and climate processes. Dr. Stackhouse leads an NASA-funded Applied Science project to design, customize, and make accessible NASA Earth Science research results (i.e., GEWEX SRB, CERES, GMAO) for the energy-related industries, particularly renewable energy applications through GIS-enabled web services and applications organized under the Prediction of Worldwide (renewable) Energy Resource project (POWER).

Dr. Falguni Patadia is a Research Physical Scientist at the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia and serves as the Deputy Project Manager for the Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project. Dr Patadia's role involves assisting in POWER project management, future planning and communications. She provides scientific oversight for algorithm development and data validation activities of the project. She works on growing existing POWER collaborations and building new partnerships in the solar energy, green building, agricultural and climate research communities. Dr Patadia's research experience includes aerosol retrievals from satellite observations with a focus on atmospheric corrections, developing methods for estimating aerosol retrieval uncertainty and mapping aerosol types over urban regions. Dr Patadia has also been studying the effect of atmospheric aerosols on Earth's radiation budget using MODIS, MISR and CERES satellite data. Dr Patadia completed Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences at The University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2010 and a Masters in Physics from D.A.V.V, India, in 2000.

Dr. Erik Smith helps advance climate data solutions for the energy sector, supporting power system planning and resilience analysis with high-quality climate information.

Lana Crouse leads market transformation and sustainable building initiatives across the Atlantic region, helping accelerate resilience, equity, and green building adoption.

Mahdi leads advanced analytics and AI initiatives that support grid modernization, system planning, and data-driven decisions for a resilient future energy system.

Jessica Erlingis is an assistant research scientist at the University of Maryland and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). Her research interests include land surface modeling, specifically to further the understanding of hydrometeorological extremes and land-atmosphere interactions. She is a member of the Land Information System team at NASA GSFC and has focused on land surface modeling for water resources applications in the western United States.

Ashish Sedai is the Associate Director of Energy Modeling and Innovation at the Virginia Department of Energy. He leads statewide energy forecasting, capacity expansion modeling, resource adequacy analysis, and emerging technology research in support of Virginia's energy planning and policy development. His work focuses on evaluating the reliability, affordability, and infrastructure implications of load growth, clean energy policies, distributed energy resources, transmission needs, and advanced generation technologies. Ashish holds a Ph.D. in Energy Engineering from Texas Tech University and brings expertise in energy systems modeling, data analytics, and machine learning.

Oleksii Neskorovnyi is the Head of Custom Solutions & Intelligence at EOS Data Analytics, an AI-powered satellite intelligence provider that transforms raw multi-sensor data into trusted outcomes. He has extensive experience, with more than 10 years in business process optimization and more than 5 years in developing satellite-based solutions across various domains, including disaster management, the oil and gas sector, industrial production, logistics, banks, and fintech.

Sridhar Katragadda is the Lead Data Scientist working for the City of Virginia Beach, Information Technology Department with a background in Civil and Geological Engineering. Sridhar worked in federal, state, local government(s) and private industry over a period of 25 years. Sridhar plays a key role in developing innovative solutions for the city and regionally, with emphasis in cloud environments that include spatial, business intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT) and AI/ML for flood monitoring and other projects, collaborates with universities, USGS, NASA and NSF in smart cities projects, and received numerous awards. He is currently the Data Testing, Validation and Integration Lead and Co-Investigator supporting coastal Community Resilience project on NASA's "Hampton Roads Coastal Resilience Project". Sridhar also designed the Production Management System (PMS) for National Geospatial Intelligence Agency to schedule and monitor the processing of Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data into finished products while working as a contractor at NASA Stennis Space Center.

Kirsten Verclas leads NASEO's electricity program, which informs and educates the states on issues related to generation, transmission, and distribution. She also leads NASEO's work on grid resilience. She serves as a member of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Electricity's Electricity Advisory Committee, where she is the Vice Chair of the Smart Grid Subcommittee. Prior to NASEO, Ms. Verclas was an ORISE Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy, where she worked on clean energy, state and local energy policy, cybersecurity issues and emergency response. She also served as a Program Manager in the International Department of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) working on regulatory partnerships in Africa, as well as a Senior Program Manager at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) at Johns Hopkins University. Ms. Verclas has written extensively on energy and climate as well as security policy in the transatlantic context. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Franklin and Marshall College, a Master of Arts in International Relations from The George Washington University, and a Master of Science in Energy Policy and Climate from Johns Hopkins University.