Electra Vehicles
Freeman Rufus has over 20 years of professional experience in the technology industry. In 2021, they began working as a ML Battery Modeling Developer at Electra Vehicles, Inc., where they are responsible for developing and refining innovative battery models. From 2003 to 2021, they worked as a Principal Engineer at Global Technology Connection, Inc., where they were the Principal Investigator for 8 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) and Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Projects for the Navy, Air Force and Missile Defense Agency. From 2002 to 2003, they were a Research Staff at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, where they conducted a system-level FMECA study of the Air Force Satellite Control Network. From 2000 to 2002, they worked as a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Channelogics, where they redesigned, coded and tested a C++ software component for managing prediction algorithms and produced a report on using fuzzy neural networks to perform long-term forecasting of future bandwidth usage.
Freeman Rufus completed their Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Morehouse College in 1991. Freeman then pursued a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, which they completed in 1994. Following that, they earned a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the same institute in 1996. Finally, they obtained their Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2001.
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Electra Vehicles
Electra Vehicles, Inc. is an industry leader and pioneer of hybrid energy storage system design and controls for automotive and grid applications. Electra was founded in 2015 by energy storage experts Fabrizio Martini and Nicolò Brambilla, and rocketed to success in the clean-tech startup space in Boston, reaching the Top-26 of the 2016 MassChallenge startup incubator, participating in Cleantech Open Northeast, and receiving extensive support from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.