Dr. Yashkumar Shukla is Executive Director at Centre for Advanced Research in Building Science and Energy (CARBSE) at CEPT University, India. He has more than seventeen years of international experience in building energy-efficiency research and serves as a lead on several groundbreaking energy-efficiency research projects at CARBSE. He currently serves as a team lead of the technical assistance (TA) program by The Asian Development Bank (ADB) that supports developing member countries to improve energy efficiency, mitigate the risks of virus transmission, and ensure safe working conditions in public buildings by deploying efficient, clean, and smart centralized air-conditioning (CAC) systems.