Tri Dev Acharya is currently a postdoctoral researcher in energy futures at the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS), University of California, Davis. He is involved in the UC Davis Hydrogen Study Group, which is studying future hydrogen system design, scaling up, and optimization within California. He received his B.E. degree in geomatics from Kathmandu University, Nepal, in 2011 and a combined M.S. and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Civil Engineering, Kangwon National University, Korea, in 2018. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Korea and China, focusing on geospatial data preparation, modeling, and simulation of land cover, surface water, disasters, and transportation.