CERAWeek 2026 Attendee
Yukta is a first-year Master of Public Policy (MPP) student at the Harris School of Public Policy, specializing in Energy and Finance. Growing up in the Indian state of Rajasthan, a leader in the country’s green energy transition, sparked an early curiosity about clean energy that deepened during her tenure at the Australian Consulate in India, where she supported trade, investment, and policy initiatives in the green energy space.
At UChicago, Yukta serves as a Research Assistant at the Booth School of Business where she is examining corporate and end-user willingness to pay for greener AI models and the frameworks needed for sustainable AI growth. She is also Co-Director of Networking for the Harris Energy & Environment Association (HEEA).
Yukta is focused on building a career in the clean energy industry, with a particular interest in developing expertise at the intersection of energy and AI, where rapid growth in compute demand meets the imperatives of grid reliability and decarbonization.