Travis Simpkins

Travis has over 20 years of experience in the design, modeling, and simulation of complex systems. He is the Chief Technology Officer at muGrid Analytics.

Though he was formally trained as an integrated circuit designer, he has spent most of the past decade helping to solve the world’s energy challenges. He joined the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in 2010 and proceeded to reinvent their approach to modeling renewable energy systems. Eschewing emotion for data, he pioneered a purely quantitative approach to analyzing and optimizing the costs and benefits of solar, wind, biomass, waste-to-energy, and other renewable technologies. His innovative research in this field led to him creating the REopt tool.

Travis holds an SM and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a certificate of Financial Engineering from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a BS in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics from Case Western Reserve University. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has published numerous papers in the fields of energy system optimization, applied optics, and integrated circuits.