Ananya Sridhar

Ananya Sridhar is a senior studying Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Focused on thermal sciences and energy, Ananya has designed liquid cooling for data centers at Nvidia, worked on hydrogen electrolysis, and researched ammonia combustion.

Ananya has a deep commitment to using her engineering skills to work on socially and environmentally impactful issues. She is interested in innovation to provide resilient and clean power to the AI revolution.

Ananya also leads Stanford’s Engineers for a Sustainable World Chapter, launching projects from building climate sensing systems in the Himalayas to recycling abandoned fishing nets in Hawaii.

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Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) Projects

Biochar Project

4 million people in Malawi lack access to clean drinking water.

We used maize, a staple crop in Malawi, to build a water filter.

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As President of Stanford’s ESW Chapter, I

Sourced 8 projects with different organizations
Secured $40k in funding

Glass crusher for recycling in Masai Mara, Kenya

Vertical axis wind turbine in Pescadero, CA

Cotton buttons to reduce plastic use in Ghana

Social and environmental impact through technology

Through studying at Stanford I have taken coursework to support my passion for leveraging technology for social impact. In particular, coursework in energy systems modeling and machine learning has helped me build a toolkit to tackle and understand complex issues.