Yashima Jain’s work has supported building technology commercialisation, early market transformation, and deployment of innovative research and analysis programs. She serves as a Program Manager for IMEPL, a tech-to-market programme. She also works on programmes that support India in accelerating its climate ambition by identifying specific opportunities in decarbonised and clean energy system pathways, accompanying benefits that would be achieved, and facilitating progress with transformative modelling, implementation, and investment actions.
Yashima is a an External Consultant at IIHS and serves as an advisor to Solar Decathlon India (SDI), the world’s largest net-zero building design competition. Prior to this, she worked as a Research Associate at IIHS on data-driven assessment and analysis for the upcoming IIHS Campus in Kengeri, Bengaluru, and as a Programme Manager for SDI. At IIHS, she led the development of dashboards used for analytics for systems like energy, water, waste, etc, and coordinated with other teams at IIHS to understand their use cases for data collection. She also assisted with developing controls and algorithms. Before joining IIHS, she also worked with GBCI where she was involved in the development of the LEED Residential green rater training program and educational content on LEED Zero and LEED Residential 4.1.
