Jai Asundi lays out an ingenious idea to estimate and fulfill the solar potential of urban Indian cities, starting with Bengaluru, India. Jai Asundi is the Executive Director at the Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy(CSTEP), Bangalore, India. He has been involved in research and policy projects in multiple areas and his current focus is on organisational development. His initial work was in the area of emergency and disaster management. He mentored teams across multiple areas spanning sanitation, urban development, energy and climate. He spearheaded the creation of the Centre for Air Pollution Studies(CAPS) at CSTEP. His broader research interests lie in decision-making and the development of decisions support systems for a number of public policy problems.

Jai holds a BTech from IIT Bombay and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Carnegie Mellon University. His career spans Infosys Technologies, the Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh and the School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is a senior member of the IEEE and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx