Nan Zhou
Senior Scientist at Asia-Pacific Energy Research Centre
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolNan Zhou is a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with over a decade leading international clean energy research and policy programs that bridge academia, government, and industry. She directed the $100M U.S.-China Clean Energy Center on Building Energy Efficiency and later led LBNL’s International Energy Analysis Department, producing tools, products, and guidance that directly shaped building efficiency policy and deployment. As Technical Program Lead for the U.S. Net Zero World Action Center and a Lead Author for IPCC AR6 mitigation pathways, she blends rigorous integrated energy-system modeling with practical decarbonization strategies for cities and microgrids. Her work has yielded award-winning software (BEST, BETTER), 17 products, 20 copyrighted tools, and 84 peer-reviewed papers, and she has more than 280 publications including in Nature Energy and Nature Communications. Fluent in U.S.-China collaboration dynamics and experienced in convening large multi-stakeholder consortia, she is known for turning complex international programs into measurable technological and policy outcomes. She began her career in academia in Japan and brings an architect’s systems-thinking to energy efficiency and low-carbon city design.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Architecture, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Architecture at Kyushu Sangyo UniversityMaster’s Degree Architecture, Master’s Degree Architecture at Kyushu UniversityBachelor's Degree Architecture, Bachelor's Degree Architecture at Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology (XAUAT)
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (33)
validation-framework10
python10
targeting10
astronomy10
core-library10
validation10
imaging10
spectral9
astrophysics9
astropy9
science9
data-model8
map-viewer7
pipeline6
traits5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rongpu/desi-truth-table
Jun 2018 - Jul 2026
Contributions:120 pushes in 8 years 2 months
rongpu/pixel_partition
Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:15 commits, 8 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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