Lindsay Anderson
Associate Professor, Biological and Environmental Engineering
House Professor Dean, William Keeton House,
Interim Director, Cornell Energy Systems Institute,

Lindsay Anderson is an Associate Professor in Biological and Environmental Engineering and the Norman R. Scott Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow, as well as the Kathy Dwyer Marble and Curt Marble Faculty Director for Energy with the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future. Professor Anderson's overarching goal is to accelerate the transition to a low carbon energy future. She is particularly interested in the effective integration of wind and solar resources, through the leveraging of distributed and demand side resources. Anderson' s approach to this problem is through improvement of operational strategies to include supply and demand side resources in frameworks for optimization under uncertainty.
Education
University of Guelph (Canada) Environmental Engineering B.Sc.(Eng) 1994
University of Guelph (Canada) Environmental Engineering M.Sc. 1998
Western University (Canada) Applied Mathematics Ph.D. 2004
Recent Research
Professor Anderson’s research interests focus on the application of systems modeling and optimization to energy and the environment. Current projects include mitigation of wind generation uncertainty through the use of other renewable energy sources, the cost of wind energy uncertainty on existing power systems, and the implications of process uncertainties in biofuels production outcomes.
Awards & Honors
2021 Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG) Award of Excellence for Contributions to Energy Systems Optimization
IEEE Senior Member Grade (since 2019)
2016 College of Engineering Award for Research Excellence. Cornell University
2015 NSF CAREER Award: Advanced Methods for Optimal Integration of Responsive Demand and Variable Generation in Power Systems and Markets. The National Science Foundation.
2012 Norman R. Scott Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellowship in Energy Systems Engineering, Cornell University
2010 College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award, Cornell University, College of Engineering (Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Tucker ’50)
2004 NSERC University Faculty Award, Faculty of Engineering, Western University (Canada)
2004 Cecil Graham Doctoral Dissertation Award, awarded by the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society for best Applied Mathematics dissertation of the year.
2000 Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship, Sponsored by Ontario Power Generation.
Courses Taught
Professor Anderson teaches students computer modeling of realistic problems in biological and environmental engineering. Her teaching approach is hands-on and interactive, using case-based model development. Her current courses are BEE 1510 Introduction to Computer Programming and BEE 4880 Applied Modeling and Simulation for Renewable Energy Systems.
Contact Information
316 Riley-Robb Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
cla28 [at] cornell.edu
Lindsay in the news

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Cornell Atkinson has awarded seed funding to nine interdisciplinary projects that address a range of sustainability topics.
- Animal Science
- Biological and Environmental Engineering
- Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

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Life as one of five house professor-deans on West Campus has given Jackson, associate professor of information science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, a glimpse into undergraduate life he couldn’t have...
- Biological and Environmental Engineering