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London Area, United Kingdom

Voltwise is building an Independent Power Producer (IPP) that develops, constructs and operates grid-scale Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) projects.Voltwise use BESS to balance the grid at the most critical times and believe that there’s a better way to use data to operate our BESS assets to accelerate net zero.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Managing data science stream to meet key investor targets of maximising the revenue and lifetime of our battery assets.
• Use of AI to forecast demand and optimise our batteries to trade in electricity markets.
• Lead the development of our digital twin to accurately model and reduce battery degradation
• Modelling for customers to make investment cases.
• Build and manage the data engineering pipeline, sending data from our IoT devices to our MongoDB database for insight and control

• Led development of a grid connected battery revenue optimisation model for the UK and EU markets
• Management of simulation modelling project to optimally investment in renewable energy assets in the US
• Development of geospatial data model for regulatory reporting, leading to a £6m bottom line impact for client

• Worked on COVID-19 vaccine demand forecasting to optimize procurement and distribution for the NHS. Utilized modeling and simulation for appropriate planning and optimization.
• Modelled investment strategies using simulation and machine learning to optimally replace water company pipe networks.
• Developed an internal model to accurately monitor water leaks from across water company networks
• Use of multi-agent reinforcement learning to control drones.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Led the development of the energy model, MUSE, which models energy transitions around the world. This included conducting quantitative investment analysis and providing insights to inform policy decisions for.
• Worked with Kenya's Ministry of Energy on capacity building and modeling efforts to improve flexibility in their power system.
• Conducted quantitative modeling to support a Middle Eastern country in its sustainable energy transition to meet climate targets.
• Supervised five MSc and MEng students and served as an advisor to a PhD student.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

High-level overview of the challenges governments face, from food systems security, brexit and the future of energy.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Data analysis of customer usage of Red Hat open-source packages. Use of Neo4j graph database and time series analysis to implicitly infer the number of downloads of products.

London, United Kingdom

M&A in prospective analytics companies, Google Loon and internal startup business analysis.

Shenzhen, China

Presentation on differences between Chinese and Western phone design preferences to mobile design team.Represented British cohort at European Union Parliament to MEPs.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computer Science

• Developed a novel agent-based model for optimizing the transition to a sustainable electricity supply • Published 11 peer-reviewed.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Electrical And Electronics Engineering, 2:1

Activities and Societies: President and Head of Technology at UCL Radio StationDissertations: MEng: Demographic analysis using machine.

Pgdip, Cloud Computing For Big Data

Statistics for Big Data, Programming for Big Data, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics, Time Series Analysis

A Levels, Madrid, Spain

Physics - A, Maths - A, Biology - A