Stephen Makonin

I am an Adjunct Professor in Engineering Science, the Principal Investigator of the Computational Sustainability Lab, and Head Instructor of the Big Data Hub at Simon Fraser University (SFU). I received my PhD in Computing Science at Simon Fraser University in 2014 in the area of computational sustainability. I have been a software engineer for over 25 years working for various local/international industry clients. I is a registered Professional Engineering (PEng) with Engineers and Geoscientists BC and a Senior Member of the IEEE. My research interests include computational sustainability and the understanding of socioeconomic issues that pertain to technological advancement. I am considered an expert in data engineering, software engineering, and a world-renowned researcher in non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) and disaggregation. Currently, I am the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Vancouver Chapter and I sit on the IEEE DataPort Advisory Committee. I currently serves as the Editor in Chief of the IEEE DataPort Metadata Review Board, and as an Editorial Board Member of Nature’s Scientific Data journal. Additionally, this year (2021) I became a Voting Member of the Big Data Governance and Metadata Management (BDGMM, P2957), a new standard being developed by the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA) and NIST.