Shmuel Oren

Shmuel Oren is the Earl J. Isaac Chair Professor in the Science and the Analysis of Decision Making, in the department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California at Berkeley and former Chairman of that department. Over the last ten years he has served as the Berkeley site director of PSerc - a multi-university Power Systems Engineering Research Center sponsored by the National Science Foundation and industry members. He was a co-founder of that center.

He served as a consultant and reviewer of electricity market rules concerning congestion management, ancillary services, settlements and resource adequacy, to the Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency (ANEEL), the Polish Transmission company (PSE),the Alberta Energy Utility Board, the Peruvian electricity regulatory commission (OSINERG), the Colombian electricity regulators (CREG) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). For the last six years he has been a Senior Adviser to the Market Oversight Division of Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) and is currently also a consultant to the Energy Division of the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC), the New England ISO, ELCOGEN Colombia and the Alberta Independent System Operator (AESO). Dr. Oren served as an expert witness appearing before FERC on behalf of the Bay Area Rapid Transit and on behalf of PacificCorp. He has been a member of a DOE task force on the National Transmission Grid Study.

Dr. Oren has published extensively on the subjects of numerical optimization, nonlinear pricing and the application of such pricing in the context of telecommunications and electric power, incentive design, bidding, transmission pricing, electricity market restructuring and other related topics. He holds a Ph.D., from Sanford University in Engineering Economic Systems and is a Fellow of the IEEE and of INFORMS.