{"613495":{"#nid":"613495","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Omar Asensio Appointed to Editorial Board of Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences (JESS)","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/omar-isaac-asensio\u0022\u003EOmar Asensio\u003C\/a\u003E has been appointed to the editorial board of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/journal.julypress.com\/index.php\/jess\u0022\u003EJournal of Environmental Studies and Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E (JESS),\u0026nbsp;a Springer-Nature journal),\u0026nbsp;the official journal of the newly formed Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAsensio\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eis assistant professor\u0026nbsp;in the Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Public Policy\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;His research focuses at the intersection of data science and public policy, with applications to energy systems and behavior, smart cities, vehicle electrification and applied machine learning in transportation and mobility. Asensio conducts randomized field experiments and uses statistical and computational tools to identify the causal effects of policies and interventions at regional and global scales.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis research has been published in general interest journals such as Nature Energy and PNAS, as featured in NBC news, CBS radio, NPR, Yahoo! News, Scientific American, the Economic Times and the Washington Post. His work has been featured in policy advisory communications by the European Commision and the World Bank\u0026#39;s World Development Report.\u0026nbsp;He is a faculty affiliate at the Institute for Data Engineering \u0026amp; Science (IDEaS), the Machine Learning Center, and the Climate and Energy Policy Laboratory. He holds a doctorate in environmental science and engineering from UCLA, with dual training in engineering and economics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Public Policy\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOmar Asensio has been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences (JESS),\u0026nbsp;a Springer-Nature journal),\u0026nbsp;the official journal of the newly formed Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Omar Asensio has been appointed to the editorial board of JESS, the official journal of the newly formed Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS)."}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2018-10-30 16:18:28","changed_gmt":"2018-10-30 16:18:28","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-10-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-10-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"613492":{"id":"613492","type":"image","title":"Omar Asensio at The Capitol","body":null,"created":"1540915486","gmt_created":"2018-10-30 16:04:46","changed":"1540915486","gmt_changed":"2018-10-30 16:04:46","alt":"","file":{"fid":"233556","name":"asensio.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/asensio.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/asensio.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":358650,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/asensio.jpg?itok=azikirPr"}}},"media_ids":["613492"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"175268","name":"Omar Asensio"},{"id":"626","name":"public policy"},{"id":"179551","name":"environmental sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nrebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n404.894.1720\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}