EDUCATION:
2019 MTech, Building Energy Performance, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
2017 PGD, Renewable Energy, TERI School of Advanced Studies, Delhi NCR, India
2016 BArch, Chitkara School of Planning & Architecture, Chandigarh, India
Countries: India, United States
States: Delhi NCR, Karnataka, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Bihar, Maharashtra
Cities: Chandigarh, New Delhi, Bengaluru
Languages: English, Hindi
Yashima’s work has supported building technology commercialisation, early market transformation, and deployment of innovative research and analysis programs. She serves as a Program Manager for IMEPL, a tech-to-market program. She also works on programs that aim at supporting India in accelerating its climate ambition by identifying specific opportunities in decarbonized and clean energy system pathways, accompanying benefits that would be achieved, and facilitating progress with transformative modelling, implementation, and investment actions.
Yashima is a consultant at IIHS and serves as an advisor to Solar Decathlon India (SDI), the world’s largest net-zero design competition. Prior to this, she worked as a Research Associate with the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) on data-driven assessment and analysis for the new IIHS Campus being built in Bengaluru and as a Program Manager for Solar Decathlon India. At IIHS, she led the development of dashboards used for analytics for systems like energy, water, waste, etc, and coordinated with other teams at IIHS to understand their use cases for data collection. She also assisted with developing controls and algorithms. Before joining IIHS, she also worked with GBCI where she was involved in the development of the LEED Residential green rater training program and educational content on LEED Zero and LEED Residential 4.1.