David D'Achiardi

David D’Achiardi received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering and economics and the M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA, in 2016 and 2019, respectively. He was a Mechanical Design Engineer at Tesla's Gigafactory 1, Reno, NV, USA. He is a Research Assistant with the Active-Adaptive Control Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT. His research interests include energy market design under high renewable power adoption and transactive control of electric railway systems with distributed energy resources. Mr. D’Achiardi is the recipient of the 2017 Douglas and Sara Bailey Scholarship and the 2015 Carl G. Sontheimer Prize for Excellence in Innovation and Creativity in Design from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT.