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TMP 2025

The 2025 TMP Consortium meeting was hosted by the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto (FEUP) and INESC TEC. Held June 16–17, 2025 in Porto, there were two days of student presentations organized by João Claro, José C. Rodrigues, and Lia Patrício.

Program Overview: Presentations

Session 1 – Energy Modelling and Decarbonisation Pathways
Moderator: Frank R. Field (MIT)

  • Mariana Januário (IST) – A Multi-Sectorial Energy Model to Assess the Cost-Effectiveness of Mitigation Measures and to Evaluate Decarbonization Plans and Future Scenarios
  • Marcos Tenente (U. Coimbra) – Integrating multiple impacts and lifecycle assessment in the evaluation of energy efficiency funding programs
  • Diana Vieira Fernandes (IST & CMU) – Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Electricity Markets for Low Voltage Networks

Session 2 – Energy Justice, Access and Intermediaries
Moderator: Joana Mendonça (IST)

  • Brissa Acevedo (FEUP & CMU) – Community Preferences in Energy Justice: Perspectives on Solar Farm Projects
  • Bianca Bănică (FEUP) – Can Energy Transition Intermediaries Truly Transform? Insights from Romania’s Energy Poverty Struggles
  • Akua McLeod (CMU) – Disaggregating Outages and Disconnections in Smart Meter Data: A Comparative Evaluation of Machine Learning Algorithms

Flash Talk Session
Moderator: José Coelho Rodrigues (INESC TEC & FEUP)

  • Carissma McGee (MIT) – Mass and Distance Estimation Simulations for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Using PyLIMASS: A Case Study on Intellectual Property Frameworks in Space Collaborations
  • Vahid Rasouli (INESCC, U. of Coimbra) – The Importance of Demand-side Energy Resources Modeling in Policy Design
  • Sónia Teixeira (INESC TEC & FEUP) – The Artificial Intelligence Vulnerabilities Prioritization
  • Rui Almeida (FEUP) – Evidence Without Complexity: Mapping Propagation Axes and Extinction Patterns for Smarter Wildfire Management Policies
  • Ellie Baker (MIT) – Clarifying Data Production Processes

Session 3 – Batteries, Supply Chains and Electrified Mobility
Moderator: Christine Ortiz (MIT)

  • Hannah Morin (CMU) – Quantifying the Degradation Cost of Frequent Fast Charging Across Multiple Electric Vehicle Battery Chemistries
  • John Paul Pieper (CMU) – Design and Manufacturing Flexibility for Battery Materials Supply Chain Resilience
  • Anthony Cheng (CMU) – Economic and environmental impacts of U.S. place-based policies promote EV battery supply chain security

Session 4 – Digital Futures: AI, Workforce and Telecom Infrastructure
Moderator: Lia Patrício (INESC TEC & FEUP)

  • Jongmin Han (FEUP) – Evaluating Generative AI for Scenario Planning: Comparing Prompt Strategies, Analysis Quality, and Narrative Generation Against Human Benchmarks
  • Wilson Martinez Diaz (CMU) – A Framework for Tracking Occupational Insights: Rapidly Generating Preliminary Quantitative Attribute Vectors for Emerging Occup
  • Amitava Datta (IST) – National Culture and Investment in Mobile-Communication Generations

Session 5 – Risk Communication, Wildfire and Water Quality Governance
Moderator: Baruch Fischhoff (CMU)

  • Mayara Souza (FEUP) – Developing risk communications strategies: a mental model approach applied to the Portuguese traditional burning context
  • Fábio Silva (FEUP) – Leisure activities and wildfire ignitions: gaps and misconceptions in public risk perception
  • Sinan Abi Farraj (Stanford) – Valuing Regional Permitting to Regulate Nutrient Discharge

Session 6 – Organisational Strategies and Societal Impact
Moderator: Erica Fuchs (CMU)

  • Kathryn Gilligan (George Washington U.) – Organizational Information Management in Humanitarian Response
  • Larissa Cool (TU Eindhoven) – How Researchers Consider and Understand Societal Impact in Early-Stage Technology Development: A Case Study in Integrated Photonics
  • Abigail Bowering (MIT) – Evaluating Network Metrics of System Interventions Toward Sustainability in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Madre de Dios, Peru

Thanks from the TMP Consortium Members to our hosts (and apoligies for the delay in updating this site)! Our next meeting will be held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA in 2026!

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Call for Presentation Abstracts: TDP 2024

As part of the restart of the annual TMP Consortium Meeting, we are soliciting presentation proposals from graduate students conducting science and technology policy research.

Submission Deadline: 05 April 2024

The Graduate Research Conference on Technology, Data, and Policy, hosted by MIT’s Technology and Policy Program and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, will be held at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts June 17 and June 18, 2024. The conference will be a opportunity for graduate student researchers in the technology and policy research community to present their research and to receive feedback from each other and faculty attendees.

We welcome research presentations by students in which technical analysis and data is mobilized to inform policy, and we expect to highlight work on a broad variety of problems and with varying methods and approaches. Submissions should:

  • Speak to research questions inspired by or directed toward policy topics in science and technology;
  • Reflect research methods and analytical approaches grounded in data-focused treatments, and
  • Connect the research findings with the overarching technology policy domain.

To submit a proposed presentation topic, please complete this questionnaire.  We look forward to reviewing your submission and we will advise you of your proposal acceptance and recommended presentation format (session talk, flash talk, or poster presentation) by 2024 April 16.

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TMP Consortium at U Porto Rescheduled for 2021

In the face of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the organizers of the TMP Consortium meeting slated for June 14-16 of 2020 have decided to reschedule the next physical meeting of the TMP Consortium to next year.

The TMP Consortium member universities are considering putting on a virtual meeting during 2020, but final decisions are pending.

Below is the text of the email sent to the TMP community this evening:

Dear colleagues,

The health and well-being of the TMP Consortium community is our highest concern. Due to the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the next TMP Consortium, to be hosted by the University of Porto, for 2021.

With the current assessment by the World Health Organization that the pandemic is accelerating, and an increasing number of regions declaring a state of emergency, this is the most sensible course of action.

Holding a virtual event this year is a possibility that we would ask each participant program to assess. Please let us know as soon as possible of your interest.

We all share the disappointment for this postponement, but also the resolve to do what is best for our community and those around us. Our thoughts go out to all who are suffering with the pandemic, and we hope its impact may be as limited as possible.

Thank you for your understanding and support.

João Claro

Associate Professor
Industrial Engineering and Management
Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto

More information on the possibility of a virtual session will be posted here.

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A Successful TMP Meeting At GWU

This year’s TMP meeting was a great success! We had two days of excellent talks by our student participants, offering a broad survey of the nature and depth of work being done at the member universities in the area of technology, management, and policy.

Thanks to GWU and the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering for hosting, as well as to all the faculty and students who so graciously gave of their time and hospitality to make it such a wonderful event.

A noted above, the student presentations this year were excellent, and the faculty debates around identifying honorees was quite spirited. Ultimately, two presenters were selected for recognition of the high quality of presentations. This year’s winners of best presentation(s) are:

  • Suparna Mukherjee (GWU): “Complex engineering and the platform economy” and
  • Magdalena Klemun (MIT): “Soft and hard factors affecting the cost evolution of low-carbon energy technologies”

All presentations titles and their associated pabels are available online.

Next year’s Consortium meeting will be held in Porto, Portugal, hosted by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, where they offer the Doctoral Program in Engineering and Public Policy. Dates have not been set, but will be announced here when finalized.

Again, thanks to our colleagues at the George Washington University, as well as to all this year’s participants!

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2018 TMP Consortium Timetables, Deadlines, Etc.

A head’s up – the website for the 2018 TMP Consortium has “gone live”.

There are some deadlines to be aware of:

Students wishing to make either a platform or poster research presentation must submit a title and 250-word abstract. Abstract submission close April 15, 2018. All proposals should be pre-screened by students’ institutions both to assure quality and the availability of travel support.

Abstract submission is now open: Apply here.
Please submit by April 15, 2018.

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TMP Consortium WWW Site

After much shilly-shallying, I have gotten around to getting this set up.  I’ll be trying to populate it with past information about the TMP Student Consortium meetings, which have been going on for more than a decade.  Here, we are trying to establish a standing “home” for information about the event going forward.

Thanks to everyone for the help (and the prodding to get going on this!)

Frank Field, Technology & Policy Program, MIT