Dr. Joe Polastre - Profile

Dr. Joe Polastre - CTO & Co-Founder of Sentilla

Dr. Joe Polastre is co-founder and chief technology officer at Sentilla, a company that provides enterprise software for managing power and performance in the data center.  Joe is an energy efficiency evangelist and defines the company’s technology and product strategy.

Winner of the 2009 Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal 40 Under 40 award and named one of BusinessWeek’s Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs, Joe often speaks about energy management and the role of physical computing -- where information from the physical world is used to make energy efficiency decisions. Before joining Sentilla, Joe held software development and product manager positions with IBM, Microsoft and Intel. Joe is active in numerous organizations, including The Green Grid, US Green Building Council, ACM and IEEE.

Joe holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University.