Dr. Md Shamim Ahamed is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at the University of California. Davis. Dr. Ahamed’s research mainly focuses on energy modeling and energy-efficient design for the next-generation agricultural built-environments, renewable energy-based heating and cooling systems, dehumidification, and control systems for CEA applications. His research area also spans automated fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) of buildings' HVAC systems using machine-learning-based algorithms.