Michael Hammersley | Protocol Labs Research

Michael Hammersley

Research Scientist/ AbstractionLab

Education

MSc in Materials Science and Engineering, 2012
Stanford University

BSc in Materials Science and Engineering, 2011
Stanford University

Michael is a Materials Engineer by training – he helped develop a polymeric touchscreen with buttons that rise out of the surface at Tactus, and then ran failure analyses on the computers and electronic components for the Avionics department at SpaceX. He’s currently researching how to decentralize the energy grid. In his spare time, he enjoys tinkering with small art projects.

Areas of Expertise

Materials Science

Talks

2020-12-09

Enabling plug and play transactive energy on legacy power grids
IEEE TESC 2020 / 2020.12.09

2020-03-25

Decentralized energy grid: A Protocol Labs independent research project
Protocol Labs Research Talks / 2020.03.25

Publications

2020-12-09/Conference paper

Improving system resilience through formal verification of transactive energy controls
IEEE PES Transactive Energy Systems Conference (TESC) / 2020.12.09

2019-09-03/Report

U.S. energy policy and market design

2019-07-09/Conference paper

A computable multilayer system stack for future-proof interoperability
IEEE PES Transactive Energy Systems Conference (TESC) / 2019.07.09 / Minneapolis, MN

2018-10-15/Report

Smart grid pilot projects

Blog posts

2021-04-26/Blog

Decentralized Energy Project recap

2020-05-04/Blog

Hello from the Decentralized Energy Project!