Awards: Stanford Data Science Scholar; Ram and Vijay Shriram Sustainability Fellowship
Coursework: Computer vision, machine learning, decision making, and causal inference
Dissertation: Holy smokes: measuring wildfire smoke and its impacts using machine learning and causal inference
experience
Tesla | Staff Machine Learning Engineer
May 2016-June 2017; July 2023-present | Palo Alto, CA
- Developed a simulation-based congestion forecasting model to estimate the optimal number of Superchargers required to balance customer experience and cost.
- Productionized the Supercharging network planning system, generating monthly forecasts for 5k+ sites and daily development recommendations with an annual budget exceeding $500mn.
- Designed and implemented a scalable geospatial telemetry pipeline using Spark and Airflow, processing 5mn+ daily vehicle trips into hex-level data for diverse downstream applications.
- Built interactive RShiny applications that queried Mongo and SQL databases to map and calculate customer density statistics.
- Used unsupervised learning algorithms (DBSCAN) to identify clusters of customers underserved by current sales and service facilities.
Nissan | AI Research Intern
June 2022-March 2023 | Santa Clara, CA
- Developed a real-time electric vehicle energy management system to minimize energy consumed while providing desired acceleration using a multi-objective MDP model implemented in Julia.
- Validated the optimization model in a custom simulation environment showing 10% energy consumption reduction over baseline.
- Collaborated with an interdisciplinary team to deploy and demo the intelligent planner and an auxiliary human-machine interface on a test vehicle for the Head of Global R&D and Nissan COO.
Berkman Klein Center + MIT Media Lab | Assembly Fellow
March 2019-June 2019 | Cambridge, MA
- Designed and produced AI Blindspot Cards to help decision makers ethically implement AI.
- Worked with technologists, managers, and policymakers to confront emerging AI ethics and governance challenges.
Pixability | Data Science Team Lead
June 2017-March 2019 | Boston, MA
- Led a team to develop an advertisement bidding system using Bayesian methods to optimize daily bids and budgets for thousands of campaigns, resulting in a ~13% increase in margin.
- Architected and implemented a brand suitability classifier for YouTube videos using NLP techniques to achieve ~0.92 AUC.
- Conducted user research and programmed a chatbot with Python and an API.AI backend to summarize campaign performance.
- Managed and updated Docker containers for seamless engineering-data science iteration.
- Partnered with business and engineering leadership to define and track data science goals.
ZS Associates | Business Analytics Associate
Summer 2013; Sept 2014-Oct 2015 | Los Angeles, CA
- Compared classification models (decision tree, random forest, SVM, Naive Bayes) to evaluate prescriber affinity toward in-person sales channels.
- Used regression models to predict clinical trial enrollment for a $117bn biotechnology company.
- Built an Excel-based database reporting tool for a $93bn pharmaceutical client.
education
Doctor of Philosophy in Earth System Science | Stanford University
2019-2023
Advisor: Marshall Burke
Master of Environmental Studies | University of Pennsylvania
2012-2014
3.98/4.00
Coursework: Quantifying sustainability, disease ecology, environmental risk analysis
Thesis: A business analytics approach to corporate sustainability analysis
Thesis: A business analytics approach to corporate sustainability analysis
Bachelor of Science in Economics | University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
2010-2014
magna cum laude
Coursework: Linear programming, statistics, operations and information management
interests
personal: running, skiing, SCUBA diving, violin, Jazz, sustainability, distributed energy resources