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Rachel Slaybaugh

Investor at DCVC

San Francisco, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Board Member, People and Culture Committee Chair

    2024 - Current

  • Board Observer

    2022 - 2024

  • Board Member

    2023

  • Partner

    2023

  • Principal

    2022 - 2023

    I focus on climate tech at DCVC where DCVC backs entrepreneurs solving trillion-dollar global problems to multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its costs. We are a Deep Tech venture fund with over $2 billion under management.

  • Independent Board Member

    2022

  • Board Observer

    2022

  • Board Member

    2020

    Founding Board Chair through 01/2023; Board Member 01/2023 through 12/2025 https://www.goodenergycollective.org/

  • Board Observer

    2022 - 2024

  • Committee Member, Study on Laying the Foundation for New and Advanced Nuclear Reactors in the US

    2020 - 2022

  • Division Director

    2021 - 2021

    • Source and select ∼10 hard tech innovators per year for a 2-year fellowship program to turn their technology concept into a product with a positive societal impact (∼$6M/year) • Fellows embed at LBNL where we support their technical development and collaborations • Responsible for outcomes, safety, and reporting to Department of Energy and LBNL leadership • Coordinate closely with Activate.org leadership in co-running the program

  • Associate Professor

    2014 - 2021

    • Frequent invited speaker on innovation in the nuclear energy sector at clean tech, academic, government, NGO, and international fora • Founded the Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp, which brings diverse students from around the world to learn skills essential to innovation in nuclear energy • Developing numerical methods for neutral particle transport with an emphasis on supercomputing and advanced architectures; applications in reactor design, shielding, and nonproliferation • Also mentored PhDs in optimization, thermal fluids, and cryptography and anomaly detection • Published 25 journal articles, 44 refereed conference proceedings, 3 technical reports, 2 book chapters, 5 open source pieces of software, and 2 policy pieces (http://rachelslaybaugh.github.io/CV/rns_publications.pdf) • Graduated 9 PhD and 4 MS students; research adviser for 1 assistant project scientist, 1 postdoctoral scholar, 1 visiting scholar, and 15 undergraduate students • Won >$2.5M as principal investigator (PI) and >$26M as co-PI for numerical methods research • Created and support a course in which Berkeley students do hands on science experiments at under-served elementary schools in Oakland

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