Five years spanning academic research, industry R&D, and applied engineering, across cyber-physical systems, energy, and mobility.
// research
Graduate Research Assistant
Jan 2021 – Present
Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University · Nashville, TN
Lead Researcher, Nissan V2X: Architected a hierarchical MILP + Multi-Agent RL framework coordinating 50+ distributed energy assets; >10% cost reduction on field data.
CARTA Transit Electrification: Stackelberg-game charging scheduler for Chattanooga's electric bus fleet, −6% cost, −10 tons GHG.
Open source: Built E-Transit-Bench & MoveOD, now used by academic partners for resilience studies.
MILPMARLMPCSUMO
Undergraduate Researcher
May 2018 – Jun 2020
Jadavpur University · Kolkata, India
Built low-cost portable IoT systems for air-quality sensing and automation.
Best Paper, I3SET 2019, for QCM-sensor integration on an 8-bit microcontroller.
EmbeddedIoTSensors
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NextGen Leaders Fellow (Energy Systems)
May 2025 – Jan 2026
OpenMinds Inc. · Remote
With Carrier & CenterPoint Energy: first-of-a-kind battery-enabled heat-pump controllers for dynamic load shaping.
Built analytic frameworks quantifying grid-reliability vs. operational-flexibility trade-offs.
GridLAB-DLoadShaping
Research Intern (Connected Energy & Data Analytics)
Jun 2023 – Sep 2023
Nissan North America Inc. · Santa Clara, CA
Designed a cost-optimization pipeline for V2B power flows, 15% reduction in peak demand charges.
Analyzed 50k+ vehicle telematics records to model user behavior and flexibility.
Co-developed the OPTIMUS digital twin for benchmarking demand-response strategies.
OptimizationPySparkDigitalTwin
Assistant Systems Engineer
Sep 2020 – Aug 2021
TATA Consultancy Services · Kolkata, India
Optimized enterprise dashboards in Angular (20% faster loads) and automated backend scheduling pipelines.