Saranya Anbarasu is a PhD student from Architectural engineering department at the University of Colorado Boulder, US. She received her bachelor’s in Architecture and a Master’s in Building Energy Performance from CEPT University, India. Her current research focuses on modeling and simulation of community and district energy systems in Modelica, which is an equation-based object-oriented language. She is also actively working on steam-based district-heating systems. Her prior works were related to low-energy cooling systems and development of control algorithms for Mixed-mode buildings using Modelica co-simulation. She was also a part of the lab and field test team for the Global Cooling prize (Govt.of India and RMI initiative – An innovative competition to develop a climate friendly residential cooling solution).