Shreshth’s professional focus over the past fifteen years has been to understand and model building performance that results from the interaction between envelope configuration, climatic context, functional requirements, conditioning systems, and occupant behavior. More recently, his doctoral research focused on developing automated workflows to construct living urban energy models that are designed to systematically explore future energy scenarios and identify areas of maximum potential savings. Shreshth’s role is primarily to manage the holistic environmental design scope, and work closely with the project teams to shape building and urban designs from the concept phase through implementation. He especially enjoys working on projects with a focus on designing with passive strategies for thermal and visual comfort; and has completed specialized building-physics analyses to help inform design decisions of several award-winning projects that represent a broad spectrum of types, scales, climates, and performance goals. As a Building Performance Analyst at Elementa Engineering, Rushil is interested in net zero energy, building to grid interoperability, carbon management strategies, and post-occupancy measurement & verification. He brings expertise resulting from a diverse set of experiences in data-driven energy analysis, urban energy modeling, and building performance modeling. He holds hold a B.Tech. and M.Tech. in Energy Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and an M.S. in Energy Science, Technology & Policy with a concentration in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.