Rawand Rasheed

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.