Paul D.H. Hines was an Associate Professor and the L. Richard Fisher chair in the Electrical and Biomedical Engineering department at the University of Vermont, where he co-directed The Energy Systems Laboratory at UVM (TESL@UVM) and held a secondary appointment in Computer Science. He is also a co-founder of Packetized Energy, an innovative energy startup located in Burlington, Vermont, where he is now the Vice President of Power Systems.
Formerly he worked at the U.S. National Energy Technology Laboratory, where he participated in smart grid research, the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, where he studied interactions between nuclear plants and grid reliability, Alstom ESCA, where he worked on short-term load forecasting, and for Black and Veatch, where he was involved with substation design projects. He is a National Science Foundation CAREER award winner and his research has been featured by NPR, Science magazine and Scientific American.