Science Breakthrough of the Year 2026
© Rawand Rasheed
Helix Earth
Rawand Rasheed
- 2026
- Speaker
- Venture
As Co-Founder and CEO of Helix Earth, Rawand leads the commercialization of a retrofit HVAC technology that decouples humidity from temperature, which eliminates wasted energy devoted to humidity control. The core technology, Helix MICRA™, is a filtration system I invented for the Orion spacecraft while working at the NASA Johnson Space Center. We’ve adapted Helix MICRA™ and built a system around it that is now revolutionizing how we think about cooling buildings.