Asad is currently working at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL) National Bioenergy Center on research projects catering to conceptual process design, fuel blending, refinery integration and techno-economic analysis under the Strategic Analysis support and Thermochemical conversion platforms. He received his M.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee; and pursued his PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah (Advisors: Prof. JoAnn Lighty and Prof. Adel Sarofim) on process modeling of chemical-looping with oxygen uncoupling. Prior to his pursuing graduate studies, Asad was a senior research engineer at Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited’s (BPCL) Corporate Research and Development Centre in India where his work involved analysis of crude pre-heat trains and refinery process units for identifying energy savings, kinetic modeling and catalyst evaluation.