• University of Waterloo, Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2024
• Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India, M.Tech., Excavation Engineering, 2018
• Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow, India, B. Tech. Civil Engineering 2016

• Subsurface Energy Technologies
• Underground Thermal Energy Storage
• Resilient Underground Energy Storage for AI infrastructure

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Dec 2024 - Present

• Engineer in Training, Geosource Energy, Canada, July 2024 - Dec 2024

Journals

• Pandey, U., Stumpf, A.J. and Lin, Y.-F.F. (2026), Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage: Groundwater for Efficient Data Center Cooling in the United States. Groundwater. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwat.70084 
• Pandey, U., and Basu, D. (2024). Thermal analysis of borehole thermal energy storage in unsaturated soil. Geothermics, 118, 102898. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2023.102898                
• Pandey, U., and Basu, D. (2023). Effect of groundwater flow on thermal performance of SBTES systems. Journal of Energy Storage, 74, 109375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2023.109375

Team looking to tap underground ‘thermal batteries’ to cool AI Data centers and save water