Indian-origin Kaushik Rajasekhar Wins Global Energy Prize 2022
Indian-origin professor Kaushik Rajasekhar has won the 2022 Global Energy Prize. Rajashekhar is a
professor of engineering at the University of Houston.
He has been given this award for his outstanding contribution to transportation electrification and
energy efficiency technologies while reducing power generationbemissions.
Out of a record 119 nominations from 43 countries, only three people were selected for the honor,given by the Global Energy Association. The award ceremony
will be held during the Russian Energy Week in Moscow from October 12-14, 2022. Rajasekhar
Electric owns 36 US patents and 15 foreign patents.
It is worth mentioning that Rajshekhar, originally from India, spent his childhood in a small village in South India. He lived there with his parents and two brothers in extreme poverty.
After completing his studies, he worked as an Assistant Professor and Senior Scientific Officer at the Indian Institute of Science. He later did his MBA from Indiana Wesleyan University, USA in 1992. Rajasekhar told that he has been working on transport electrification for a long time