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| Francis Rubinstein, is a Staff Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he leads the Building Technology Department’s Lighting Research Group. and Principal Investigator for the Lighting Research Group. He is an internationally-recognized expert in advanced lighting controls research. At the Berkeley Lab, he developed a low-cost building equipment control network (IBECS) that will allow lighting systems and other building equipment to be controlled wirelessly from the Internet. He managed a major demonstration of lighting controls at the San Francisco Federal Building for which he was awarded the Vice-Presidential National Performance Award (“Hammer” Award) in 1996. He was Department of Energy’s lighting expert for the Greening of the White House Initiative under President Clinton in 1993.
He has also managed the development of lighting analysis software including the RADIANCE suite, which remains the most advanced simulation and visualization program for lighting applications. He’s a Fellow of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America and currently Chairs the IESNA Research Committee. He is a principal author of the respected 2001 Advanced Lighting Guidelines. He has expertise in wireless communications, lighting energy management, lighting technology assessment, commissioning of control systems, and photometry. |
