Paul Raftery
Professional Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Raftery is a professional researcher and building systems expert with over a decade of experience translating HVAC engineering and control theory into real-world decarbonization and efficiency solutions. Based at UC Berkeley’s Center for the Built Environment, he leads multi-million dollar, multi-year projects—most recently a $6M California Energy Commission effort on heat recovery and thermal storage for large existing buildings—and supervises staff, postdocs and students. His background spans hands-on facilities engineering, lab experimentation, whole-building simulation, fault detection & diagnosis, and field demonstrations, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective from sensors to policy. Paul has repeatedly turned research into measurable savings (e.g., $130k identified across industrial AHUs) and holds leadership roles in ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA, reflecting influence on standards as well as practice. He pairs rigorous academic training (PhD, NUI Galway) with practical impact, focusing on cost-effective, deployable technologies that address why many buildings fail to deliver desirable indoor environments.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Engineering, PhD, Engineering at NUI GalwayBEng(Hons), Mechanical Engineering, BEng(Hons), Mechanical Engineering at Munster Technological University
English, Russian
Github Skills (47)
energy-data9
energy8
vocabulary8
uniform7
measurement7
semantics7
verification7
weather-data6
shacl6
linked-data6
r-package6
azerothcore5
renewable-energy5
caret5
metadata5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
CenterForTheBuiltEnvironment/fan-tool
Aug 2019 - May 2023
Website:
Contributions:2 PRs, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
pair-programmingreactazerothcore
CenterForTheBuiltEnvironment/mave-app
Oct 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:23 commits, 1 push, 2 comments in 9 months
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