Joshua Velson is an experienced technoeconomic modeler and data scientist with a background in chemical engineering and energy technology. He is passionate about green chemistry, fuels, and renewable energy and has a wide range of experience and methodologies to tackle tough problems in his industry. With excellent technical presentation and communication skills, he has worked as a technical, economic, and market consultant for Nexant Energy and Chemicals Advisory, focusing on process modeling for technical and economic assessment, and primary market research. In addition, he has spent almost three years as a data scientist and a back-end developer for a consumer finance startup, Fig Loans. He has also held research positions, including an R&D intern at e2e Materials and an undergraduate researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Joshua is proficient in programming using R, Ruby on Rails, and Excel VBAScript. He is fluent in English, advanced conversational, and written in Mandarin, proficient in simplified and traditional characters, and with basic knowledge of Spanish.