Indian-American engineering professor Kaushik Rajashekara wins 2022 Global Energy Prize

Kaushik Rajashekara, an Indian-origin professor of Engineering at the University of Houston, USA, has won the Global Energy Prize for 2022.
Kaushik is among only three people in the world who were selected for the prestigious award in 2022, by the Global Energy Association.
He has been given the award for his contributions to transportation electrification and energy efficiency technologies while reducing power generation emissions.
The other two 2022 laureate are:
- Viktor Orlov – chief specialist of the Centre for Innovative Technologies (Rosatom in Russia) and pioneer in thermonuclear physics
- Mercouri Kanatzidis – professor of chemistry and materials science at Northwestern University and senior researcher at the Argonne National Laboratory.