Dustin Demetriou

Dustin Demetriou is a Senior Technical Staff Member, Master Inventor, and leads sustainability and data center innovation for IBM Infrastructure. He is an Accredited Sustainability Advisor by the Uptime Institute and an ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Syracuse University with a focus on thermal management and energy conversion systems.  He is a globally recognized expert in the field of thermal management and data center energy efficiency and is the current Chair of the ASHRAE TC 9.9 IT Subcommittee, a voting member of TC 9.9 and the past Chair.   He was the lead developer on the recently released ASHRAE TC 9.9 Datacom Encyclopedia and has co-authored four books in the ASHRAE Datacom Series, authored or coauthored over thirty journal and peer-reviewed conference publications, and has been granted forty-three United States patents.