Prof. Jayendran attended the Sustainability and Development Conference organized at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, on November 9th-11th, 2018. He presented the paper "Does involvement of local community ensure sustained energy access? A critical review of a solar PV technology intervention in rural India", co-authored with Lalita Joshi (SoULS), Deepak Choudhary (SoULS), Praveen Kumar (Boston College), and Chetan Solanki (DESE).
Also, another paper "Barriers and enablers impacting durability of solar street lighting systems in rural India", was presented by Dr. Praveen Kumaar (Boston College), co-authored with Aritra Chakrabarty (SoULS), Rohit Sharma (SoULS), Jayendran Venkateswaran (IEOR), Chetan S. Solanki (DESE).
Both the above works are based on the Solar Urja through Localisation for Sustainability (SoULS) projects of IIT Bombay.