Title: Assistant Professor
Institution: University of Colorado – Denver
Address: 1200 Larimer St, North Classroom, Denver, Colorado 80204
Email: jacqueline.garrido@ucdenver.edu
Phone: (510) 717-5480
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Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Jacqueline Garrido is an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering at the University of Colorado Denver. She holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California Riverside, a Master's degree in Energy Technologies from the University of Cambridge in England, and a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María in Chile. Her research primarily focuses on transportation electrification, with a strong emphasis on developing intelligent electric vehicle (EV) charging strategies, along with EV fleet management and scheduling for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. Before joining CU Denver, she was a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she worked on hydrogen technologies.
Prior to her Ph.D., she gained experience in the renewable energy industry in both London and the San Francisco Bay Area, working at companies including Solarcentury, NEXTracker, DNV-GL, and Envision Digital as a Senior Performance Engineer. Additionally, she was a Scientific Engineering Associate at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She has received numerous prestigious recognitions, including the 2024 Best Poster Honorable Mention Award at the 4th IEEE Forum on Innovative Sustainable Transportation Systems (FISTS). She was named UC Riverside’s Outstanding Student of the Year by the National Center for Sustainable Transportation (NCST) in both 2022 and 2023. Additionally, she is a recipient of the 2022 Women's Transportation Seminar (WTS) Inland Empire Scholarship, the 2022 NCST Dissertation Award, the 2021 Helene M. Overly Memorial Scholarship, and the 2020 Dean's Distinguished Fellowship Award at UC Riverside.