Paul Hines
Vice President, Power Systems at EnergyHub
Burlington, Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Hines is a power systems leader and entrepreneur who blends deep academic research with product-focused engineering to make energy cleaner, more affordable, and reliably managed. As VP of Power Systems at EnergyHub, he leads the Data Science and Power Systems Intelligence team to extend DERMS capabilities, building on his experience as co-founder and CEO of Packetized Energy. He spent 2007–2021 on the faculty at the University of Vermont (with a secondary CS appointment) and serves on the adjunct faculty at Carnegie Mellon’s Electricity Industry Center, reflecting a rare mix of scholarly rigor and commercial execution. His career spans hands-on roles at FERC, NETL, Alstom/GE, and Black & Veatch, covering grid reliability, smart distribution algorithms, ML for load forecasting, and substation design. Known for translating complex power-system research into deployed utility-scale software and controls, he brings both systems-level thinking and product leadership to distributed energy challenges. Based in Burlington, VT, he pairs a PhD in Engineering and Public Policy with practical startup and regulatory experience that speeds innovation from lab to grid.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering, Power Systems, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering, Power Systems at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering at Seattle Pacific UniversityHigh School and International Baccalaureate diploma, High School and International Baccalaureate diploma at Foss High SchoolPh.D., Engineering and Public Policy, Ph.D., Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (6)
java6
visualization5
graph5
interactive4
opengl4
gephi2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
phines/dcsimsep
Oct 2013 - Oct 2018
Contributions:53 commits, 17 pushes in 5 years
phines/influence-graphs
May 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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