Bio: Shashank completed B.E in Mechanical from GM Institute of Technology, Davangere. His engineering project focused on performance analysis on solid oxide fuel cell at Indian institute of science, Bangalore. Now he is associated with the Combustion Gasification and Propulsion Laboratory (CGPL) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), where he is currently overseeing the operation of the gasifier systems and the operation and optimization of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) using hydrogen generated from biomass gasification.