Dustin Demetriou

Senior Technical Staff Member, Sustainability and Data Center Innovation, IBM & ASHRAE TC 9.9 IT Subcommittee

Dustin Demetriou is a Senior Technical Staff Member and leads sustainability and data center innovation for IBM Infrastructure. This role ensures that IBM Infrastructure products anticipate and exceed customers’ expectations across a broad range of topics including product sustainability and lifecycle assessment, workload carbon accounting, data center infrastructure management, and future trends and regulations. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Syracuse University with a focus on thermal management and energy conversion systems.  He is a globally recognized expert in the field of thermal management and data center energy efficiency and is the current Vice Chair of the ASHRAE Technical Committee 9.9 (TC 9.9) IT Subcommittee and the past Chair of ASHRAE TC 9.9.  He has co-authored four books in the ASHRAE Datacom Series, authored or coauthored over thirty journal and peer-reviewed conference publications, and has been granted forty three United States patents.