Vishal Garg is an Indian researcher working mainly in building energy efficiency and Cool Roofs. Garg is University Chair Professor and Dean Research at

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. He is also the director of Indorama Ventures Center for Clean Energy. Previously he was Professor and Head of the Center for IT in Building Science at the

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. He is the recipient of the inaugural Dr.

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Urban Cooling Achievement Award. He is actively involved in supporting the formulation of national-level policies and standards and implementation of building energy codes in India, and was made a Fellow of IBPSA in 2019.

Early life and education

Garg was born in Jodhpur and raised in Jaipur. He attended M.B.M. Engineering College, Jodhpur of the J.N. Vyas University where he received his Bachelor of Engineering in 1995. He pursued his Ph.D. at

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, in th
Center for Energy Studies
under the guidance of Prof. N. K. Bansal, which he successfully defended in 2000. He joined the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad as Assistant Professor & Founding Head of Center for IT in Building Science in March 2000. He has worked on several large international projects in the area of building energy efficiency.

Awards and honors

*Fellow,

International Building Performance Simulation Association The International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA), is a non-profit international society of building performance simulation researchers, developers and practitioners, dedicated to improving the built environment. IBPSA aims to ...

, 2019. *Dr. Arthur H Rosenfeld Urban Cooling Achievement Award, 2018. *Fellow,

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, 2016. *Life Fellow, Indian Society of Lighting Engineers, 2013.

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* * * 1973 births Living people Scientists from Rajasthan Academic staff of the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad IIT Delhi alumni Indian civil engineers Scientists from Jaipur {{India-scientist-stub