Simona Onori

Assistant Professor, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University

2020 Research Award Winner

Simona Onori is an Assistant Professor in Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University, where she also holds a courtesy appointment in Electrical Engineering. She is also an adjunct professor at the International Center for Automotive Research, Clemson University. She funded and currently directs the Stanford Energy Control lab, where she leads a team of graduate and undergraduate students, postdocs, and international visiting scholars conducting cutting-edge research on transportation and grid storage systems. Her contributions to sustainable transportation include designing novel algorithms to improve fuel economy of hybrid vehicles, developing advanced battery management systems for electric vehicles and second-life utilization, and proposing innovative modeling tools to accelerate adoption of new emissions reduction technologies. Onori serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the SAE International Journal of Electrified Vehicles. She has been a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 2015 and is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. Multiple honors include the 2019 Clemson University Board of Trustees Award for Excellence, LG Chem’s 2018 Global Innovation Contest Award, the 2018 SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, and the National Science Foundation’s 2017 Faculty Early Career Development award. Onori is the first author Hybrid Electric Vehicles: Energy Management Strategies and co-author of two book chapters and more than 120 peer-reviewed publications. She earned an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico and a Laurea Degree in Computer Science and a PhD in Control Engineering from the University of Rome Tor Vergata.