Srinivas Katipamula received M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1985 and 1989, respectively, from Texas A&M University. Since 2002, he is a Staff Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He has extensive technical experience evaluation of advanced design concepts for heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems, development of automated fault detection and diagnostic techniques, building and energy system simulations, analysis and evaluation of new energy efficient technologies, development and use of analytical modeling techniques and integration of building with grid. He is active in both ASHRAE and AMSE technical committees and is an associate editor of the ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology. He is a Fellow of ASHRAE.