Recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2020.
Omar I. Asensio is a Visiting Fellow with the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) at the Harvard Business School for the 2023-2024 academic year. He is an Associate Professor and Director of the Data Science & Policy Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Professor Asensio’s current research focuses on climate and electrification strategies at the intersection of technology, AI, and public policy. He uses large-scale data and conducts field experiments to address distributed innovation challenges in energy systems, transportation, and human mobility. His research and teaching have been supported by Microsoft, the National Science Foundation, ESRI, Inc., the U.S. State Department Diplomacy Lab, and the U.S. Department of Energy. He contributed to the zero emission vehicles (ZEV) policy guidance for COP26 and the Glasgow Climate Pact.
Professor Asensio has received multiple awards for his research including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) Emerging Sustainability Scholar Award, and the ONE-NBS Research Impact on Practice Award by the Network for Business Sustainability (NBS) and the Academy of Management (AOM) Organizations & the Natural Environment (ONE) Division.
His research in resource conservation and electric vehicles has been cited in government and policy advisory communications by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the UK government, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, and the IndiaAI initiative. Professor Asensio’s research also has been featured in the New York Times, NPR’s All Things Considered, Scientific American, Yahoo! News, the Huffington Post, and the Washington Post.
He is a member of the U.S National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) New Voices 2021 cohort. He received a doctorate in environmental science and engineering, with specialties in economics from UCLA.
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- Asensio, Omar Isaac. "Shared Electric Scooters and Electric Bikes Can Reduce Traffic in Urban Centres." Nature Energy 7, no. 11 (November 2022): 1013–1014. (Summary of Impacts of Micromobility on Car Displacement with Evidence from a Natural Experiment and Geofencing Policy.) View Details
- Asensio, Omar Isaac, Camila Apablaza, M. Cade Lawson, Edward W Chen, and Savannah J Horner. "Impacts of Micromobility on Car Displacement with Evidence from a Natural Experiment and Geofencing Policy." Nature Energy 7, no. 11 (November 2022): 1100–1108. View Details
- Hicks, Diana, Matteo Zullo, Ameet Doshi, and Omar Isaac Asensio. "Widespread Use of National Academies Consensus Reports by the American Public." e2107760119. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119, no. 9 (March 1, 2022). View Details
- Ha, Sooji, Daniel J Marchetto, Sameer Dharur, and Omar Isaac Asensio. "Topic Classification of Electric Vehicle Consumer Experiences with Transformer-Based Deep Learning." Art. 100195. Patterns 2, no. 2 (February 2021). View Details
- Asensio, Omar Isaac, Kevin Alvarez, Arielle Dror, Emerson Wenzel, Catharina Hollauer, and Sooji Ha. "Real-time Data from Mobile Platforms to Evaluate Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure." Nature Sustainability 3, no. 6 (June 2020): 463–471. View Details
- Asensio, Omar Isaac. "Correcting Consumer Misperception." Nature Energy 4, no. 10 (October 2019): 823–824. View Details
- Asensio, Omar Isaac, and Magali A Delmas. "The Effectiveness of U.S. Energy Efficiency Building Labels." Art. 17033. Nature Energy 2, no. 4 (April 2017). View Details
- Asensio, Omar Isaac, and Magali A Delmas. "Nonprice incentives and Energy Conservation." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, no. 6 (February 10, 2015): E510–E515. View Details
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Winner of the ARCS Sustainable Scholar Award from the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) in 2022. This research career award seeks to recognize the leading pre-tenure scholar “in the area of corporate sustainability who is likely to make significant contributions to the advancement of corporate sustainability scholarship and practice.”Named to the New Voices 2021 cohort of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM).
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