PALO ALTO, Calif., November 15, 2010 -- Sun Synchrony, a Bay Area solar start-up developing high-efficiency concentrating solar panels for the rooftop market, today announced the addition of a new team member, Sanjay Lall, a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Aeronautics at Stanford University. Lall will lead Engineering efforts and work closely with Sun Synchrony's founder, James Hoffman, in the development of the Arcsol panel.

Prior to joining Stanford's Electrical Engineering Department in 2000, Lall was an Associate Professor of Engineering at Caltech, specializing in control systems. Lall will play a key role in bringing to market the first internally-tracked self-orienting concentrating panel.

"Sanjay recognized ArcSol's potential immediately" said Hoffman. "I was impressed with his engineering insight and vision of what it will take to produce a panel that will work reliably for thirty-plus years."

"Sanjay brings deep domain expertise and is up to the challenge, and we're confident that together with Stanford University, we'll bring this new and exciting technology to market," said Sun Synchrony Vice President, Mark Perlin.

Professor Lall is equally enthusiastic: "I was smitten by the design at first sight, but only after closer inspection did I come to believe that ArcSol can revolutionize distributed power generation."

Hoffman emphasizes that Lall's skills in developing computational tools for design of decentralized control algorithms will be essential to proving this novel approach to solar power generation. "Sanjay has the right expertise to accelerate the development of this technology. We're lucky to have a NSF Presidential Award Winner leading our engineering efforts."

About Sanjay Lall
Sanjay Lall is Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Aeronautics, and Vance D. and Arlene C. Coffman Faculty Scholar at Stanford University. He received Ph.D. in Engineering and B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge, England. His work focuses on the development of advanced engineering methodologies for the design of control systems. Previously, Professor Lall was a Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology and a NATO Research Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2007 he received the George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award by the IEEE Control Systems Society and the NSF Career Award. Professor Lall joined the Sun Synchrony team in 2010 as Director of Engineering, and brings expertise in control systems and project development.

About Sun Synchrony
Sun Synchrony is developing solar products to generate electricity using concentrating self-orienting optics. The high sunlight-to-electricity conversion efficiency afforded by the ArcSol CPV panel will open new markets to solar power applications, particularly where space constraints exclude the possibility of using conventional silicon panels due to their limited efficiency.