- Assistant Professor
Biography
Tapajyoti Ghosh is an Assistant Professor in the Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at Washington State University Tri-Cities and a faculty member of the Institute for Northwest Energy Futures, where he leads the SEED Research Group (Sustainable Engineering and Ecological Design). His research develops computational frameworks that bring life-cycle assessment, techno-economic analysis, optimization, and artificial intelligence together to design energy and industrial systems that are environmentally sustainable, economically viable, and socially equitable.
He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from The Ohio State University, held a postdoctoral position at the MIT Energy Initiative, and served as a Research Scientist and Senior Research Scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) before joining WSU. His work there produced open-source tools for automated life-cycle inventory construction, dynamic material-flow modeling of circular-economy systems, and integrated life cycle and techno-economic analysis of decarbonization pathways. He has authored several peer-reviewed papers, has led federal and industry research as principal investigator, and received NREL’s President’s Award for Research Contribution.
At WSU, his group couples process, supply-chain, economy, and policy scales in a single modeling framework, and formulates life-cycle, economic, and ecological performance inside process and systems optimization — with the goal of producing analyses that industry, regulators, and investors can act on.