Karen Hsu

Karen Hsu

San Mateo, California, United States
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  • A Demonstration of Blockchain-based Energy Transactions between Laboratory Test Homes

    US Department of Energy (NREL)

    Current electricity payment mechanisms and accessible value streams are inhibiting innovation in energy markets that stand to enhance grid security and resilience and enable increased integration of distributed energy resources (DER). In the era of near-instantaneous settlement times brought about by blockchain technology, the unidirectional (customer → utility) monthly settlement of the incumbent infrastructure appears arcane. The lack of an effective market interface for DER results in fewer…

    Current electricity payment mechanisms and accessible value streams are inhibiting innovation in energy markets that stand to enhance grid security and resilience and enable increased integration of distributed energy resources (DER). In the era of near-instantaneous settlement times brought about by blockchain technology, the unidirectional (customer → utility) monthly settlement of the incumbent infrastructure appears arcane. The lack of an effective market interface for DER results in fewer value streams for customers, underutilized assets for utilities, and reduced opportunities for vendors/manufacturers. A secure, real-time energy market enabled by blockchain technology presents a transformative opportunity to unlock innovations in DER and integrated controls.
    Blockchain technology provides a compelling pathway to energy market evolution, however there are several challenges to be addressed, including: simultaneous exchange of currency and energy commodities, ensuring customer privacy, incorporating transmission/distribution losses in energy trading contracts. To address the first of these—commodity tracking—we have established peer-to-peer energy transactions between two test homes at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Our research architecture demonstrates integration with high-fidelity metering for commodity tracking, and integration with NREL’s foreseeTM controls platform which orchestrates building loads and DER to execute the energy contract. The digital currency Dash, which supports enhanced privacy features and instant transactions, is employed for transaction settlement. BlockCypher’s blockchain-agnostic web services are used to provide future flexibility in integrating various payment and contract options. In this paper we describe the technology, the research methodology employed, and present results on transaction execution speed and compliance with energy trading contracts.

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  • Living in a Multiple Blockchain World

    Journal of Digital Banking (https://www.henrystewartpublications.com/jdb/v2)

  • The Guide to Big Data Analytics

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Patents

  • CUSTOMER LIFECYCLE VISUALIZATION TOOL

    US 20160307219

    Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for customer lifecycle management visualization. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for customer lifecycle management visualization includes defining multiple different stages of a customer lifecycle in a CRM application executing in memory of a computer. The method also includes loading records for a business opportunity from a data store of CRM data stored by way of the CRM application and…

    Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for customer lifecycle management visualization. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for customer lifecycle management visualization includes defining multiple different stages of a customer lifecycle in a CRM application executing in memory of a computer. The method also includes loading records for a business opportunity from a data store of CRM data stored by way of the CRM application and rendering in a user interface to the CRM application, a visualization of the different stages of the customer lifecycle. Finally, the method includes displaying a state of the business opportunity within the visualization by visually distinguishing ones of the stages already completed in connection with the business opportunity from ones of the stages not yet completed in connection with the business opportunity.

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  • Dynamic Pricing System and Method

    US 20070226064

    Other inventors
    • Jai Yu, Catheryne Nicholson, Michael Yu, Yan Tan, Do Joon Ra, Michael Li, Piyush Govil
  • Extended attribute-based pricing system and method

    US 20070226155

    Other inventors
    • Jai Yu, Catheryne Nicholson, Michael Yu, Yan Tan, Do Joon Ra, Michael Li, Piyush Govil
  • Method and apparatus for optimizing product distribution strategies and product mixes to increase profitability in complex computer aided pricing of products and services

    US 20040267676

    Other inventors
    • Yan Feng, Nandhakumar Palanisamy, Surekha Ghantasala, Mangal Sain
  • Method for complex computer aided pricing of products and services

    US 20040267674

    Other inventors
    • Yan Feng, Nandhakumar Palanisamy, Sanjay Mittal, Shriniwas Ramkrishna Gadage, Mangal Sain, Prem Malhotra

Honors & Awards

  • Hito Award, Women's Startup Lab

    Women's Startup Lab

    Women's Startup Lab asks each cohort to select their top advisors. The top of everyone's list wins the Hito Award.

  • SugarCRM Sales Award

    SugarCRM

  • Informatica Star Award

    Informatica

  • Informatica MVP Award

    Informatica

Languages

  • Spanish

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  • Chinese

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