Dr.Arun Majumdar rose to fame when President Barack Obama nominated him as the Under Secretary for Energy.
A graduate from IIT – Mumbai, he is the Jay Precourt Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, and has served in many top positions in the U.S. His research mostly involves nano-scale materials, energy conservation, transport and storage and biomolecular analysis. His current work includes creating a sustainable future through thermal management, waste-heat recovery and applying Al to solve energy and climatic issues.
He was previously the Director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He was also Professor at University of California, Berkeley, and the first director of the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).
Before joining Stanford, he was Vice President for energy at Google. He is a member of National Academy of Sciences (2020) and a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (2014).
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