Power systems · computation · software

I build the computational tools that power systems work runs on.

Power markets, the transmission physics beneath them, and the DER-rich grid edge — unblocked with numerical optimization, high-performance computing, cloud infrastructure, and AI.

fig. 01 — single-line diagram methods power markets — bidding, clearing, congestion transmission — operations & planning grid edge — microgrids, DERs & VPPs
Trained & worked at Argonne National Laboratory U.S. DOE ARPA-E (GO Competition) Fulbright Program University of California San Diego The University of Utah University of South Florida
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Research and development, in service of working software

My focus is the gap between what power systems research knows and what practitioners can actually run. I take methods from optimization, operations research, and machine learning and turn them into engines — power flow, contingency analysis, market simulation, network-model tooling — that are fast enough, scalable enough, and dependable enough to carry commercial decisions.

Increasingly, my work sits a layer above the engines: designing decision systems for problems that unfold under uncertainty. That means physics-based scenario simulation as the foundation, stochastic optimization and sequential decision modeling as the architecture, and AI applied where it genuinely earns its place — forecasting the inputs and correcting the residuals — rather than replacing the physics. The goal is the same across markets, operations, and planning: turn a hard, uncertain problem into a repeatable, auditable pipeline that decision-makers can trust.

Deepest domain

Power markets

Market clearing, congestion analysis, CRR/FTR and virtual markets, and optimal bidding — grounded in physics-based network models rather than price series alone.

The physics underneath

Transmission systems

A practice in its own right: N-1 contingency screening, transfer capability and deliverability, interconnection studies, and security-constrained scheduling at interconnection scale.

Supporting thread

The grid edge

From my Argonne and postdoc years: voltage regulation in microgrids, DERs, and VPPs — increasingly what transmission studies and market models must account for.

numerical optimizationstochastic & sequential decision modelingscenario simulationparallel & HPCcloud-scale executionML for forecasting & residual correctionJuliaPythonC++Gurobi · IPOPT · MOSEK
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Things I've built

2024 — presentcommercial · Python

PsFlow — transmission study automation

A scriptable Python engine for DC-linearized contingency screening, transfer limits, and worst-case transfer limits, with PSS/E-compatible I/O and parallel scenario batching. Built and benchmarked for parity with leading commercial tools; the flagship product of Powersense, the independent software company I founded.

2022 — presentproprietary · production

Industrial power flow & market analytics engine

Led development of an in-house power flow platform for modeling power outcomes in wholesale markets — achieving a 150× speedup in fundamental power flow computation and higher accuracy in identifying congestion-driving outages than established commercial alternatives. Includes state estimation, SCUC/ED, and market-clearing simulation.

2022 — presentproprietary · data infrastructure

ISO network-model ingestion at scale

Scalable CIM parsing and node-breaker to bus-branch conversion across every major U.S. ISO (ERCOT, MISO, PJM, SPP), replacing workflows that previously depended on Siemens PSS®ODMS — with greater flexibility and throughput.

2020 — 2022open source · Julia

ActiveSetMethods.jl — nonlinear optimization solver

A Julia continuous nonlinear solver using a sequential linear programming line-search algorithm, developed at Argonne National Laboratory and applied to AC optimal power flow.

2017 — 2022research · ARPA-E

Grid Optimization Competition solvers

Computational algorithms for Challenges 1 and 2 of the U.S. Department of Energy's ARPA-E Grid Optimization Competition — security-constrained optimal power flow under competition-scale time and accuracy constraints.

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Where I've done it

  • 2022 — present Investment Engineer Associate, Powerflow Systems
    Alphataraxia Management LP — power flow modeling and analytics for speculative wholesale power trading
  • 2024 — present Founder & Principal
    Powersense — independent power-systems software; transmission planning and interconnection study consulting
  • 2022 — 2025 Postdoctoral Scholar, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
    University of California San Diego — voltage regulation in microgrids, DERs, and virtual power plants
  • 2020 — 2022 Wallace Givens Associate
    Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics & Computer Science Division — high-DER distribution systems, T&D co-optimization, nonlinear solvers
  • 2017 — 2022 Graduate Research & Teaching Assistant
    The University of Utah — Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering; computationally tractable optimal power flow
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Education & recognition

Education

  • Ph.D., Electrical & Computer Engineering — The University of Utah (4.0). Dissertation: Towards Computationally Tractable Optimal Power Flow
  • M.S., Electrical Engineering — University of South Florida (4.0). Thesis on optimal bidding via mixed-integer programming
  • B.E., Electrical & Electronics Engineering — Osmania University
  • Micro MBA — University of California San Diego · PMP® certified

Honors

  • Fulbright Scholarship — U.S. Department of State
  • Golden Bull Award — University of South Florida's highest honor for academics, leadership, and service
  • Engineering Student of the Year — IEEE Florida West Coast Section
  • Member — IEEE (2012–) · SIAM (2021–)
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Publications

My research sits at the intersection of power engineering, operations research, economics, and high-performance computing — with an emphasis on optimal power flow tractability, market design, and DER integration. The complete, always-current list lives on Google Scholar; the tools above are where the research goes to work.