Dr. Kaushal Kumar Jha is the Principal Investigator and Founder of NoonRay Energy Pvt. Ltd. He consults various organisations in automotive thermal and energy management. Dr. Kaushal is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Engineering Design at IIT Madras. He is also the CEO of the Center for Battery Engineering and Electric Vehicle – CBEEV at IIT Madras and the Center for Excellence in Energy and Telecommunication (CEET), an R&D Society of IIT Madras. From an engineering background, Dr. Kaushal is a Ph.D. from IIT Madras in Mechanical Engineering with more than a decade of experience in industrial and academic R&D.