Dr. Kashif Nawaz is the Head of the Building Technologies Research Section at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He earned his BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Technology, Pakistan, in 2007, followed by an MSc and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2010 and 2013, respectively. Later he joined the Heat Transfer Center of Excellence at Johnson Controls (JCI), where he served as a Senior Heat Transfer Engineer until 2016. In 2016, Dr. Nawaz transitioned to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) as a senior scientist in the Building Equipment Research Group, while also holding a joint appointment at the Bredesen Center, University of Tennessee. Dr. Nawaz is a Fellow of both the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). He authored or co-authored over 250 peer-reviewed publications, including journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports. He has more than 20 invention disclosures and seven patents in heat exchanger design and energy conversion processes. His specialties include novel heat exchangers, enhanced phase change processes, and the use of additive manufacturing in creating advanced porous media and surface morphologies.