Regional variation of greenhouse gas mitigation strategies for the United States building sector

Dr. Vahidi is the John N. Butler Endowed Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). He is an interdisciplinary researcher who has crossed traditional boundaries between engineering and sustainability sciences. His research takes fundamental environmental engineering and translates this into applied settings. He has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed journal papers with over 1100 citations. Before joining UNR, he was a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he explored various GHG reduction solutions in the buildings industry in the United States. He is currently helping a number of companies in Nevada achieve their carbon reduction goals.