David Miller

David C. Miller has held a number of executive and technical leadership roles throughout his professional career. Miller spent nearly 14 years at the Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) as a technical leader, senior fellow, and ultimately chief research officer before leaving to serve as chief research officer at OLI Systems from 2023 through mid-2025. Miller has served as a consultant on energy systems, process modeling, and the national laboratory system.

While at NETL, Miller founded and led the highly collaborative, multi-institutional Institute for the Design of Advanced Energy Systems (IDAES). IDAES is focused on next generation computational modeling approaches to enable the design, optimization, and operation of complex integrated energy and industrial systems, accelerating their development and deployment. Miller also served as the technical director of the Carbon Capture Simulation Initiative, which pioneered new ways to maximize learning during pilot-scale testing to reduce technical risk during scale-up. Miller is a recipient of two R&D 100 Awards and the Arthur S. Flemming Award for Exceptional Federal Service. He earned his doctorate in chemical engineering from The Ohio State University, where his research focused on AI for process modeling and scale-up.