Rajat Gupta
Rajat Gupta is Director of the multi-disciplinary Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development (OISD) and Low Carbon Building Research Group at Oxford Brookes University (UK). He holds a senior professorial chair in sustainable architecture and climate change. Rajat’s research interests lie in decarbonising the building sector through energy efficiency, renewables and smart energy systems; local energy mapping for scaling up energy retrofits; and climate change adaptation. As Principal Investigator (PI) he has won over £13 million in research grants from UK Research Councils (EPSRC, ESRC, NERC), Innovate UK and EU to investigate these subjects.
Rajat is Principal Investigator (PI) of a £1.3 million EPSRC-DST Newton Fund sponsored RESIDE project on residential building energy demand reduction in India (2017-2022). He is also Co-Investigator on the £9 million EPSRC EnergyRev project on scaling up smart local energy systems and PI of the £382k EPSRC EnergyREV Plus project on smart energy tools for enhancing user engagement in local energy projects. He is also lead academic on the Innovate UK £15.2 million smart local energy system demonstrator, Local Energy Oxfordshire (2019-2023).
Rajat has advised various Government departments at senior level and is member of several technical committees and task groups. He is currently an embedded researcher with the UK's Ministry of Justice and the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, leading research on overheating in buildings.
Sessions in which Rajat Gupta participates
Conference: Concordia University, John Molson School of Business (MB) Building - MB3.210
Talk
Stefano Rossi, University of Trento (Chair)
Yifan Hou, School of Civil Engineering, University of South China (Speaker)
Changwei Li, Wuhan University of Technology (Speaker)
Rajat Gupta, Oxford Brookes University (Speaker)
Haohan Sha, Qingdao Univeristy of Technology (Speaker)
Sherif Goubran, American university in Cairo (Speaker)
Youness Yousefi, SAPL, University of Calgary (Speaker)
Conference: Concordia University, John Molson School of Business (MB) Building - MB2.435
Talk
Abolfazl Hayati, University of Gävle (Chair)
Rajat Gupta, Oxford Brookes University (Speaker)
ChungGang Li, Kobe University (Speaker)
Mengsi Deng, Southwest Jiaotong University (Speaker)
FuYao Zhang, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (Speaker)
CHUNXIAO SU, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (Speaker)
Sessions in which Rajat Gupta attends
Opening Ceremony: Concordia University, Henry F Hall Building - Sir George Williams University Alumni Auditorium (H-110)
Keynote
Matthaios Santamouris, University of New South Wales (Keynote speaker)
Conference: Concordia University, John Molson School of Business (MB) Building - MB3.445
Workshop
Justin Berquist, National Research Council (Chair)
Eric Blomster, One LightWave (Speaker)
Uday Krishnan, Ruks Engineering Ltd (Speaker)
Grace Zhou, National Research Council (Speaker)
Conference: Concordia University, John Molson School of Business (MB) Building - BMO Amphitheater - MB1.210
Keynote
Colleen Mercer Clarke, International Federation of Landscape Architects (Keynote speaker)
Dr. Andrew Persily, U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (Keynote speaker)
Conference: Concordia University, John Molson School of Business (MB) Building - BMO Amphitheater - MB1.210
Keynote
Dr. Tianzhen Hong, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Keynote speaker)
Yuguo Li, Hong Kong University (Keynote speaker)