Rohit Reddy Takkala has joined as a Research Analyst in the Energy, Natural Resources, & Sustainability vertical and will work with Utkarsh Patel.  Prior to this, he briefly worked as a Research Associate at J-PAL South Asia and as a Graduate Research Assistant at Iowa State University. He has done his M.S. in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University and B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. His areas of interest include energy markets, climate change, machine learning, and public policy.