Biography
Subbu has over 24 years of research experience in the clean energy R&D sector. He has extensive experience leading the development and implementation of new solutions in the energy domain with specific focus on emerging technologies such as digitalisation.
Subbu's research in CSIRO is primarily focussed on decarbonisation of the built environment sector and integration of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) in buildings. As part of his current research, he is evaluating ways to use advances in digital technologies to reduce buildings carbon footprint, strategies for buildings to grid interaction (B2G) and concepts for net zero energy buildings.
Subbu is a honorary professor of University of Wollongong, Australia. He serves as an associate editor of ASME journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities. Subbu has setup and leads interactions with various academic, research entities in Australia and across the globe. He is a subtask leader of International Energy Agency (IEA)'s 'Grid Integrated Control of Buildings' annex initiative coordinating research from various entities from different countries. He is active in research publishing and IP generation.
He deeply cares about the impact of research outputs and works closely with various industry, government partners on research translation and commercialisation activities. His research has led to development of solar assisted cooling system development and demonstration in commercial buildings, development of low energy cooling solutions for buildings. He recently led development of a semantic model based building data management platform (one of the very few that incorporate this novel approach) for delivering energy flexibility and energy savings. This platform is under use by over 200 buildings. He serves in the advisory board of technology companies working in this space.
Prior to CSIRO, Subbu held technology leadership roles Siemens and GE corporate R&D departments in the area of decentralised power generation, clean coal technology development projects.
Subbu has a PhD in mechanical engineering (thermal sciences specialisation) from the University of Cambridge, UK.