Amanda Thounaojam

Senior Associate - Sustainable Energy Lab | amandat at iihs dot ac dot in

EDUCATION:

2019   MTech, Building Energy Performance, CEPT University, Ahmedabad

2017   BArch, Architecture, Dayananda Sagar School of Architecture, Bangalore

 

 

 

Countries: India
States: Karnataka, Gujarat
Cities: Bangalore, Ahmedabad
Languages: English, Hindi, Telugu, Manipuri

Amanda Thounaojam has worked as a Visiting Scholar at Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory at University of Oregon, USA, as a part of a fully funded scholarship programme by Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF). During her Internship programme for six months at University of Oregon, she worked on prototyping a High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI) sensor for façade controls and explored the software developing platform for processing sensor inputs and outputs. She also carried out an additional analysis to examine the existing HDR data set from the ESBL lab.

 

Her post graduate thesis was titled “Evaluation of Low-cost method High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography for daylight Assessment” and it won for the Aluplast Best Capstone Project Award. She is proficient at conducting simulations in terms of energy, daylighting and lighting and also has experience in handling building environmental monitoring equipment and experimentation.

 

At IIHS, Amanda is part of the Solar Decathlon India team. She provides technical support for net-zero-energy-water-waste aspects of the competition and helps in assisting with coordination among the participating teams. She also provides technical support for monitoring the building energy performance for the new campus.

  • Thounaojam, A., Vaidya, P., & Prakash, S. (2023, November). Futureproofing with passive buildings: is it cost-effective and is it thermally adequate?. Paper presented at the International conference on Energise 2023: Lifestyle, Energy Efficiency and Climate Action, Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy.
  • Barathi, S., Thounaojam, A., Vaidya, P., Gopikrishna, A, Dalavai, U., & Tandon, V. (2023, November). A control sequence for prioritising ceiling fan operation over air conditioners using machine learning to determine thermal comfort. Paper presented at the International conference on Energise 2023: Lifestyle, Energy Efficiency and Climate Action, Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy.
  • Thounaojam, A., Vaidya, P., Singh, G., & Prakash, S. (2022). Calibrated model of an experimental building to test passive thermal comfort solutions for the Global South. In IBPSA, Building Simulation and Optimisation. University of Bath.
  • Venkatesh, J., Vaidya, P., Thounaojam, A., Prakash, S., Chandra, A., Paralkar, V., & Jain, Y. (2022). Finishing with net-zero: A case study of the energy systems in an experimental building. In IBPSA, Building Simulation and Optimisation. University of Bath.
  • Jayaram, S., Thounaojam, A., Venkatesh, J., Srivastava, S., Vakil, G., & Jain, Y. (2022). The twelve percent effect improvements in evidence-based design towards net-zero building performance. In IBPSA, Building Simulation and Optimisation. University of Bath.
  • De, A., Thounaojam, A., Vaidya, P., Sinha, D., Raveendran, S., Gopikrishna, & Dalavai, U. (2022). Implementing at-scale adaptive thermal comfort controls for mixed mode building using machine learning. In FARU 2022: 15th International Research Conference. University of Moratuva.
  • Jayaram, S., Thounaojam, A., Venkatesh, J., Jain, Y., & Vakil, G. (2022). A Thousand thunbergs collaborate towards Net-Zero. In PLEA 2022: Will cities Survive? The future of sustainable buildings and urbanism in the age of emergency. Passive and Low Energy Architecture.
  • Miriyala, Y., Thounaojam, A., Vaidya, P., & Mangrulkar, A. (2022). Opportunities and challenges for LCA in India for innovative technologies. In PLEA 2022: Will cities Survive? The future of sustainable buildings and urbanism in the age of emergency. Passive and Low Energy Architecture.
  • 2020 Presented paper at ‘53rd International Conference of the Architecture Science Association’ at IIT, Roorkee on ‘Evaluation of a low-cost method of HDR photography for Daylight Assessment’.
  • 2019 Presented paper (online)at ‘IIT BCP Symposium’ Chicago on ‘Prototype of Net Zero Energy school for Hot and Dry climate in Indian context’.