Reshma Singh

Technology Researcher III

(510) 495-2167

ReshmaSingh@lbl.gov

eta.lbl.gov/people/Reshma-Singh

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Bio

Reshma Singh is a Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Building Technologies Office.

Concurrently, at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, she leads the technology-to-market IMPEL and Cradle to Commerce incubation engines. She previously managed the Presidential U.S.-India Center for Building Energy Research and Development (CBERD) and the California Energy Commission's R2M2 Microgrids program. Singh brings over 10 years of experience advancing urban sustainability and cleantech innovation, and working with complex international ecosystems in the United States, India, and Singapore. Reshma’s work lies at the intersection of design and technology of smart buildings and cities, with a focus on energy, data analytics and UX, and IoT sensors and controls.

Singh holds two cleantech patents. She is the lead author of Building Innovation Guide, Transforming India’s Built Environment: A 2050 Vision for Wellness and Resilience, and is a contributor to Mutations: Harvard Project on the City and The Bay Area-Silicon Valley and India: Convergence and Alignment in the Innovation Age. She is on the Advisory Board for the Carbon Leadership Forum. She has previously served on the Telecommunications Industry Association’s (TIA) Smart Buildings and Power and Energy group, and on the Advisory Council for the State Department’s international TechWomen program (techwomen.org).

Singh previously co-founded GreenExcel, an online education platform. She is a recipient of the American Association of University Women award, Harvard University’s Community Service Fellowship and has taught graduate seminars at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and at University of California, Berkeley. Apart from her professional life, she teaches dance and has co-produced an acclaimed children's musical. She holds a master's degree from Harvard University, and a bachelor's degree in architecture from New Delhi, India.

Personal Links

LinkedIn Profile

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability Talk

Selected Projects

IMPEL+ Building Technologies Tech-to-Market

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R2M2 Resilient, Replicable, Modular Microgrids

CBERD U.S.-India Joint Center for Building Energy Research and Development

Building Innovation Guide (BIG) for India

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Awards

Harvard Community Service Award
American Association of University Women International Fellowship

Education

Energy Innovation and Emerging Technologies Certification, Stanford University, 2021
Masters in Landscape Architecture, Harvard University, 1999
Bachelors in Architecture, TVB School of Habitat Studies, India 1995

Professional Associations

Carbon Leadership Forum, Advisory Board
U.S. Department of State Tech Women, Council Member
Telecommunication Industry Association (TIA), Smart Building Working Group Member

Publications

2022

Net Zero World South East Asia Center For Innovation in the Built Environment (SEIBE)

AUTHORS: Nan Zhou, Reshma Singh, Carolyn Szum, Mary Ann Piette

Thermal anomaly and rooftop unit (RTU) detection in buildings through machine learning

AUTHORS: Samuel Fernandes, Rohullah Najibi, Anand Prakash, Reshma Singh, Marina Zafiris, Jessica Granderson

Scaling Building Energy Audits through Machine Learning Methods on Novel Drone Image Data

AUTHORS: Singh, Reshma; Samuel Fernandes; Anand Prakash; Paul A. Mathew; Jessica Granderson; Colman Snaith; Rahul Pusapati; Prakash Jadhav; Avideh Zakhor; Rishi Upadhyay; Ozgur Gonen, and Harry Bergmann.