Willett Kempton earned his PhD in 1977 from University of Texas, Austin, in linguistic anthropology with a minor in artificial intelligence. He has held research and teaching positions at U.C. Berkeley, Michigan State U., DTU-Elektro, and Princeton U. He has authored 5 books, 4 EV-related patents, and published 66 peer-reviewed articles on electric technologies, power systems, and how people use technology. His publications in 1997 and 2005 defined vehicle-to-grid power, derived the relevant equations, identified key markets, and described the needed interfaces. He co-founded Nuvve Corp, an EV charging and V2G company. He is currently a Full Professor at U Delaware in Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Biden School of Public Policy, and School of Marine Science and Policy, and is Principal Investigator on several EV and V2G projects.
Rodney T. McGee earned a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware, Newark, in 2020. He has been principal investigator on grants or contracts from Ford, Volvo, Dept of Energy, US Air Force, Hewlett Foundation, Exelon Corp, and others. He has twenty publications on topics including electric vehicles, EV standards, LED infrared scene projection, superlattices for LED arrays, etc. He is the chairman and document sponsor/author of both SAE J3068 (Electric Vehicle Power Transfer System Using a Three-Phase Capable Coupler) and SAE J3400 (NACS Electric Vehicle Coupler). He is currently a researcher at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, principal engineer, and a patent listed inventor for the University of Delaware’s Vehicle-to-Grid program, and the director of the University of Delaware Transport Electrification Center. His current research and development work informs industry design of EVs and other electric systems via his creative application of electronic principals and methods along with in-depth knowledge of multiple electrical and automotive standards.
Garrett A. Ejzak received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Iowa in 2009, his M.S in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware in 2013, and his Ph.D in 2020, also at the University of Delaware in Electrical and Computer Engineering with focus on systems engineering. He has published 23 journal and conference papers, on topics including power meters for EVs, silicon-integrated lasers, and infra-red sensor test systems. He is currently a postdoc at University of Delaware, analyzing existing EV standards and developing new standards. His current activities include writing large parts of SAE J3068/1 and J3068j/2, in coordination with the SAE committee members and industry engineers. He is also advising automobile manufacturers on the implementation of modern EV charging standards and is working with the IEC 61861-1 committee to harmonize J3068 with European EV charging standards.