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A collection of problems I’ve explored, systems I’ve built, and ideas I’ve changed my mind about.

Strategy and Ops
2026-03-158 min

I Built a Route Optimization System. The Algorithm Wasn’t the Hard Part.

Designing a vehicle routing system for Used Cooking Oil collection to supply Sustainable Aviation Fuel feedstock across Indian metros.

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AI and Simulation
2026-01-288 min

Can a Digital Twin Actually Help Design an EV Battery-Swapping Network?

Building a digital twin of an EV battery-swapping network to simulate wait times, stress-test outages, and optimize station placement.

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Data Science
2025-11-207 min

Forecasting Electricity Demand When the Future Doesn’t Look Like the Past

Using STL decomposition, PACF lag features, and Random Forest on detrended demand profiles for long-term regional power grid planning.

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Systems Engineering
2025-10-155 min

A Forecast Is Only Useful If You Know What the System Is

Why most infrastructure forecasting failures are system-definition problems, not data or machine learning problems.

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Data Architecture
2025-10-156 min

Forecasting a Region Is Different From Forecasting a Time Series

Why regional energy forecasting is a system-boundary problem before it becomes a machine learning problem.

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Sustainability
2025-07-106 min

When Does Sustainability Actually Make Business Sense?

An operational case study on identifying hidden industrial energy inefficiencies across 390 high-power motors at ITC Bhadrachalam.

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