Pankaj Kumar Jha
Envision Energy, USA
Biography
Pankaj Kumar Jha is a senior researcher in CFD and UQ at Envision Energy, based in Houston. He is the owner of Envision’s CFD and automation software suite for wind resource assessment and wind plant simulations. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics and Computing from India’s premier institute, IIT Kharagpur and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. He has worked for GE Aviation in Bangalore, India as a database developer and for CMSoft Inc. in Palo Alto as a CFD software developer in the past. He has been collaborating with the researchers at NREL since his Ph.D. days and has co-authored several publications with them. He also represents Envision Energy at ASME Wind Energy Technical Committee and North American Wind Energy Academy (NAWEA) Board