Christopher R. Laughman received the S.B. and M.Eng. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science and the Ph.D. degree in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 1999, 2001, and 2008, respectively. He has been with Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, since 2008, where he currently holds the position of a Senior Principal Research Scientist and is the Senior Team Leader of the Multiphysical Systems Team. His research interests include the modeling, simulation, control, and optimization of large-scale multiphysical systems, with an emphasis on multiphase thermofluid applications.

Avinash Subramanian is a Software Engineer at JuliaHub, specializing in simulation, control, and optimization. He leads the development of Dyad HVAC and thermal-fluid system models, enabling high-speed simulation of complex two-phase flows through advanced numerical methods. He also contributes to JuliaHub’s Optimal Uncertainty Quantification efforts, building algorithms for distributionally robust optimization in safety-critical systems. Prior to JuliaHub, Avinash was a graduate researcher at MIT’s Process Systems Engineering Laboratory and a lecturer at NTNU, Norway, where he taught Mixed-Integer and Nonconvex Optimization. He holds a PhD in Energy and Process Engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).