Gokul Iyer
Team Leader at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
College Park, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGokul Iyer is a team leader and senior earth scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Joint Global Change Research Institute, bringing nine years of professional experience and over a decade of research leadership in integrated energy, water, land, economic and climate system analysis. He combines deep academic training—a PhD in Public Policy and an M.Tech in Energy Systems—with hands-on modeling work, contributing code and data fixes to the widely used GCAM global change model to improve energy and solar data handling. Gokul has authored 75+ peer-reviewed papers, contributed to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, and regularly publishes in high-profile journals while serving on editorial boards for Environmental Research Letters and Energy and Climate Change. He focuses on long-term technology diffusion, institutional drivers of decarbonization, and sustainable development implications of energy transitions, translating complex interdisciplinary science into actionable policy insights. Based in College Park, MD, he blends rigorous quantitative modeling with a talent for making research relevant to stakeholders and the public, as reflected in coverage by outlets like Scientific American and The Washington Post.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayThe University of Maryland, College ParkB.Tech, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, B.Tech, Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology
Github Skills (6)
clim10
camera10
r10
data-analysis9
integrate9
economics8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
JGCRI/gcam-core
Nov 2016 - Aug 2019
GCAM -- The Global Change Analysis Model
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 1 comment in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Gokul primarily focused on modifying R code files, likely within the GCAM (Global Change Analysis Model) framework. Their contributions involved refactoring code, addressing review comments, adding comments for clarity, and modifying data handling processes. The changes included adjustments to capacity factor calculations, data integration, and code structure within the `LA119.solar.R` file and others. These changes seem aimed at improving data accuracy and code maintainability within the larger GCAM project.
biodiversitymodel-analysissustainabilityclimate-changeclimate-science
JGCRI/gcamdata
Mar 2017 - Jun 2018
The GCAM data system
Contributions:3 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
orddatamodelicagcam
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