Francis Rubinstein is a retired Staff Scientist within the Building Technology and Urban Systems Division. He led a team whose research focuses on digital lighting controls and energy-efficient buildings. He developed a low-cost building equipment control network (IBECS) that will allow lighting fixtures and other building equipment to be operated and controlled wirelessly from the Internet. He is an internationallyrecognized expert in advanced lighting controls research and has managed several major demonstrations of lighting control systems including the Philip Burton Federal Building for which he was awarded the Vice-Presidential National Performance Award. He was DOE’s lighting expert for the Greening of the White House Initiative under President Clinton in 1993. He is a Fellow of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) and is current Chair of the IESNA Research Committee. Before joining LBNL in 1979, he spent two years as a photometric test engineer for Prescolite. He received a BA in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1976.
Francis Rubinstein
Awards
October 2012
Alison Williams, Barbara Atkinson, Karina Garbesi, Erik Page, Francis Rubinstein
November 2011
Francis Rubinstein and Dennis DiBartolomeo
April 2008
Demand Response Research Center, Pacific Gas & Electric, Global Energy Partners LLC, and Akuacom
September 1999
Francis Rubinstein
February 1999
Francis Rubinstein, et al.
October 1996
EETD staffers Francis Rubinstein, Dale Sartor, Doug Avery, and Rick Diamond, Judy Jennings, Steve Kromer, and other agencies
April 1990
Michael Siminovitch and Francis Rubinstein
March 1989
Stephen Selkowitz, Dariush Arasteh, Michael Wilde, Bob Sullivan and Francis Rubenstein