projects

A collection of my personal and academic projects.

  • 2026.08 - 2026.08
    U.S. Energy Information Administration logo
    U.S. Energy Information Administration
    EIA MCP Server - GridSense
    Model Context Protocol (MCP), EIA API, Energy Data
    • Built an MCP server that connects AI assistants to US electricity grid data through the Energy Information Administration (EIA) API
    • Exposes tools for hourly generation by fuel source and electricity demand by grid region, monthly retail electricity prices by state, and annual electric power sector CO2 emissions by state
  • 2026.05 - Present
    Red-hot steel being cut with torches at a steel mill
    Robert Kerton / CSIRO · CC BY 3.0 (resized; cropped for display)
    decarbSTEEL
    Graduate Research Assistant | Prof. Valerie Karplus | Laboratory for Energy and Organizations
    • Built decarbSTEEL into a React/TypeScript web app translating an Excel-based techno-economic model for steel decarbonization
    • Reimplemented engine logic client-side for interactive cost and emissions analysis, scenario comparison and model modification
  • 2025.11 - 2025.11
    Engineers commissioning a container-based battery energy storage system
    Yan lance · CC BY 4.0 (resized; cropped for display)
    Battery and Energy Storage Project Analysis Tool
    Streamlit, Python, Techno-Economic Analysis | MIT Energy & Climate Hackathon
    • Developed a Streamlit-based techno-economic analysis dashboard to evaluate battery storage projects using inputs such as industrial load curves, RTO market prices, battery capacity, degradation rates, round-trip efficiency, capital and O&M costs and project lifetime
    • Implemented modeling to estimate lifecycle costs, savings, and payback period under different operational scenarios, enabling users to compare battery sizing and market participation strategies
  • 2026.02 - 2026.02
    Rows of server racks in a data center
    Carl Lender · CC BY 2.0 (resized; cropped for display)
    Data Center Carbon-Aware Scheduling with Co-Located Renewables
    System Design, PJM Grid, BESS, Solar, Wind
    • System design for a 100 MW flexible load data center using solar, wind and BESS to shift compute loads
    • Designed based on PJM's CO2 emissions modeled to reduce emissions by 33% or 100K ton CO2e annually
  • 2021.11 - 2021.12
    Close-up of blue hydrangea flowers
    Brian Lopez · Public domain (resized; cropped for display)
    Invasive Species Monitoring
    Convolutional Neural Networks, Tensorflow, Keras, numpy, pandas
    • Explored the biological consequences of globalization and the challenges posed by invasive species for a term paper
    • Applied a CNN model to a Kaggle Dataset, achieving a 75% accuracy in identifying hydrangeas
  • 2020.11 - 2020.12
    An apple growing on a tree
    Nasenfresse · Public domain (resized; cropped for display)
    NIR Spectroscopy based Apple Classification
    Machine Learning, sklearn
    • Successfully reproduced the findings of a paper predicting apple origin through spectral data from NIR spectroscopy
    • Reduced dimensionality via Principal Component Analysis, and trained a Support Vector Machine model achieving 100% accuracy in binary classification of apples
  • 2020.04 - 2020.05
    A printed circuit board with electronic components
    Cjp24 · CC BY-SA 3.0 (resized; cropped for display)
    Nand to Tetris
    Build a Modern Computer from First Principles
    • Built components like logic gates, adders, multiplexers and demultiplexers, Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) and a CPU