"I started to find a nexus between the electricity sector, the energy sector, and kind of how both of these were very tied to large goals like climate change, but the thing was, it wasn't an engineer’s problem entirely."

First year Tata Fellow, Piyush Verma has always been interested in addressing needs which have a high social impact through his architecture and design projects.

First-year Tata Fellow Sidhant (Sid) spent time in India as a child and felt the effects of poor air quality. Now as a Ph.D. candidate he is invested in contributing to a solution.