Yogi Goswami
University of South Florida
USA
Dr. D. Yogi Goswami is a Distinguished Professor and Director of the Clean Energy Research Centre at the University of South Florida. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Solar Compass; journal of the International Solar Alliance. He is also the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the Solar Energy journal.
Professor Goswami has made transformative contributions to the field of Solar Energy, including Thermodynamic Power Cycles, and Solar photocatalytic Detoxification and Disinfection of Air and Water. He developed a new combined Power and Cooling Cycle, now known as the Goswami Cycle. He pioneered the development of photo-electrochemical oxidation (PECO) technology for disinfection of air, which snow available commercially. He has now developed the next generation Plasmonic Photonic technology to disinfect and detoxify the indoor air, which is being commercialized by Applied Photonix LLC. Within the field of energy he has published 23 books, more than 400 papers, and holds 43 patents.Dr. Goswami’s textbook, Principles of Solar Engineering, 4th edition is being used worldwide.
Prof. Goswami has served as the President of the International Solar Energy Society (ISES), and a Governor and Senior Vice President of ASME. He is the President -Elect of the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida and a Director of the Pan American Academy of Engineering, among many professional leadership positions.
Dr. Goswami is a recipient of the highest awards of many professional societies related to solar energy including the Farrington Daniels Award and Karl Boer Medal for Solar Energy from International Solar Energy Society, and the Charles Greely Abbott award from American Solar Energy Society,the Frank Kreith Energy award and John Yellott Solar Energy award from ASME, and the Joan Hodges Queneau Palladium Medal from the American Association of Engineering Societies.He isa Honorary Fellow of ASME and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, ASHRAE,AAAS, ASES, ISES and a member of the Pan American Academy of Engineers and has been inducted in the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame.
