Adrienne Little

Adrienne Little has worked in various roles in the engineering field since 2007. Adrienne began their career as a Research Assistant and Lab Technician at Sky + Ltd., where they developed a casting furnace for production of vanes and blades for Rolls-Royce airplane turbines. Adrienne then worked as a Research Assistant at UC Berkeley, exploring the effects of surface wettability on two-phase flow regimes in small-scale channels for the purpose of heat management in hydrogen fuel cells. In 2008, they joined the Georgia Institute of Technology as a Research Assistant, conducting a comparative assessment of multiple waste heat recovery and upgrade systems. In 2011, they worked as a Research Assistant at Université catholique de Louvain, preparing and performing experiments on large-scale ejector systems. In 2013, they were an Intern at GE Global Research, where they conducted dynamic modeling of supercritical CO2 bottoming cycles for efficiency improvement of remote power generation facilities. From 2016 to 2018, they worked at X, the moonshot factory, first as a Thermal Systems Technical Lead on project Malta and then as a Rapid Evaluator. In 2020, they returned to X, the moonshot factory as a Rapid Evaluator. Currently, they are the VP Systems Engineering at Antora Energy.

Adrienne Little received their B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. Adrienne then went on to pursue a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, which they completed in 2015.