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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Things I've built
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Where I've done it
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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
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–)
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.