Ajay Pillarisetti’s research focuses on the impacts of household energy use on human health, the environment, and the climate. He is broadly interested in exposure assessment and the application of lower-cost, sensor-based technologies to the monitoring and evaluation of environmental pollutants and related behaviors. He has developed and evaluated tools for measuring exposure to common combustion-related air pollutants, estimating ventilation rates in resource-constrained environments, and, with colleagues, pioneered the use of low-cost temperature data loggers as time-of-use appliance monitors.
He additionally has created web-based tools to model the impacts of air pollution exposure on health based on Global Burden of Disease methods and to estimate PM or CO concentrations in rural households using a Monte Carlo single compartment box model. He is involved in the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) trial, an international multi-center study aimed at assessing the impact of a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cooking stove and fuel intervention on health.
With ISEP, Ajay hopes to work on evaluations of global energy transitions and their impact on health and the environment.