Poster #57 - Aaswath Raman

University of Pennsylvania, United States

Biography

Aaswath Raman is an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at UCLA. His research interests include nanophotonics, metamaterials, building envelope efficiency, energy systems and machine learning. He is also co-founder and chief scientist of SkyCool Systems, where he led the commercialization and development of radiative sky cooling, a technology that he originally developed as a research associate at Stanford University beginning in 2013. Aaswath received his PhD in applied physics from Stanford University in 2013, and his AB in physics and astronomy, and MS in computer science from Harvard University in 2006. He has published more than 25 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals including Nature, Nature Energy, PNAS and Physical Review Letters. Prior to obtaining his PhD he was a program manager at Microsoft. He is the recipient of the Sir James Lougheed Award of Distinction from the Government of Alberta, Canada, the SPIE Green Photonics Award for his work on solar cell research and the Stanford Postdoctoral Research Award. In recognition of his breakthroughs in developing radiative sky cooling, in 2015 Aaswath was named one of MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 (TR35) as an Energy Pioneer, and more recently, was invited to speak at TED 2018.