About Me

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About Me

Hello, my name is Steven Isley and I’ve got a odd background. I started out as an aerospace engineer at the University of Washington, then managed the Kirsten Wind Tunnel for three years. I moved on to get my Masters in aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech in the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory. I made a career change and moved into Policy Analysis, getting my Ph.D. at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, the only accredited Ph.D. program located inside a think tank. I added economics/econometrics, operations research, experimental design, and social science methods to my engineering tool set. After that, I finished a postdoc at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory where I was the first hire in a group called the New Concepts Incubator. We take ideas about technology, behavioral science, and ways to save energy, and then we test them with real people.

Now, I’m a full time employee at NREL, and conducting research in augmented reality, virtual reality, smart home systems, emerging transportation technologies, and online experimental platforms.

You can reach me at steve.c.isley@gmail.com.

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