Dwarak Ravikumar is an assistant professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. His research interests are designing and implementing circular economy solutions to address climate change, and developing assessments methods to guide and improve the sustainability outcomes of large-scale technology transitions. His research focuses include energy systems, photovoltaics, carbon capture and utilization, circular economy, life cycle assessment (LCA), multi-criterial decision analysis and uncertainty assessment. Ravikumar was previously an assistant professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and a staff scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado.