Bill McQuade has spent over 32 years working in the HVAC&R industry in various roles. He is the Global Vice President for Government Affairs and Sustainability at the Baltimore Aircoil Company. In that capacity, he is responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with regulators, legislators, associations, and societies and he leads the development and implementation of the company’s global ESG strategy. Previously to that, he was Vice President of Sector Services at the Air Conditioning Heating and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI), and he worked for 26 years for the York International/Johnson Controls organization in various roles.

Throughout his career, he has been a very active member of our global industry. In the ASHRAE Society, he is the current Society President. Over the years, he Chaired various councils and committees and chaired the subcommittee that developed the 2019-2024 ASHRAE Strategic Plan. Bill is a Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania, a LEED AP, and a Certified Decarbonization Professional. He an ASHRAE Fellow (2013) and received the ASHRAE Exceptional Service Award in 2023. During his career, he has been awarded 22 U.S. and International patents.

Dr. Jungho Kim – Moderator
Program Director
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)

Dr. Jungho Kim serves as a Program Director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) at the U.S. Department of Energy where he is working on a broad range of technologies including high heat transfer methods, building energy, and carbon sequestration.

Dr. Kim spent several years at Calspan Corporation as a Senior Mechanical Engineer designing, building, and operating experiments involving gas turbines. He then taught in the Department of Engineering at the University of Denver as an Assistant Professor for six years. He transferred to the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland where he was promoted to the rank of Professor and has taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in heat transfer, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, electronics, and energy systems.

Dr. Donghun Kim – Panelist
Computational Research Scientist/Engineer
Building & Industrial energy Systems Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Dr. Donghun Kim is a research scientist at LBNL. Before joining LBNL, he worked as a Research Assistant Professor at Purdue University. His academic background includes modeling, system identification, machine learning, control, and optimization for improving the operations of thermal energy systems, including HVAC&R, district energy, data centers, and grid systems. He has led over 15 DOE, CEC and industry projects in these areas and served as a subcommittee chair of Building Operations and Dynamics (TC Smart Building System) at ASHRAE.

Dr. Kashif Nawaz – Panelist
Section Head, Building Technologies Research
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

With over fifteen years of experience, Dr. Nawaz has made significant contributions to energy science and technology, particularly in building heating, cooling, and dehumidification systems. He is known for his innovative work on novel heat exchangers, enhanced phase change processes, and the use of additive manufacturing in creating advanced porous media and surface morphologies. His pioneering research has led to the development of high-temperature heat exchangers using ceramics and composites, as well as breakthrough concepts for direct air capture of carbon dioxide utilizing existing building infrastructure. Dr. Nawaz has also been instrumental in advancing high-temperature heat pumps for both buildings and industrial decarbonization.

Dr. Jason Woods – Panelist
Research Engineer
National Laboratory of the Rockies

Jason Woods is a distinguished researcher with expertise in heat and mass transfer and phase change processes, with applications to thermal management, air conditioning, heat pumps, thermal energy storage, and dehumidification. He leads projects at NLR that connect system-level modeling and analysis with early-stage experimental research and development of new technologies.

Michael Petersen is a Principal Engineer & Leader Refrigerants at Trane Technologies leading a team that supports internal and external strategic areas on refrigerant evaluation and application. He has authored/ co-authored 40+ publications and conference presentations on low GWP refrigerants, and his work led to 10+ patents in refrigerants and their applications.

15+ years of industry experience in developing, applying and evaluating low Global Warming Potential refrigerants in mobile and stationary applications ranging from cryogenic, refrigeration, comfort cooling and heating to industrial heating applications as well as data center and electronics cooling.

Actively engaged in industry associations like ASHRAE through Std. 34 Nomenclature and Designation of Refrigerants, Technical Committee 3.1 Refrigerants and Secondary Coolants, Technical Committee 10.6 Transport Refrigeration, ISO TC86/SC8, AHRI Refrigerant related working groups.