RESUME

Summary: Graduate researcher at the Boysen - TU Dresden Research Group on Smart Grids and integration of Electric Vehicles (EVs)

Awards & Honors

DAAD Doctoral Research Grant (2021-22)

Fredrich and Elizabeth Boysen Foundation Scholarship (2019-2022)

Fulbright Scholarship (2017-18)

Work Experience

Senior Consultant - ICF 

May 2022– Present

  • Member of ICF's Wholesale power markets division. Work on modeling energy markets, simulation of power grids and estimation of demand and supply scenarios
  • Working on estimation of future EV charging scenarios

Analyst/Consultant - EVgo Fast Charging 

May 2022Apr 2023

  • Member of Data Science and Data Strategy team - focusing on optimal charger pricing and placement

Energy Analyst/Consultant - The World Bank Group 

Mar 2022May 2023

  • Member of Energy Modeling group focusing on West African countries

Researcher - Boysen Foundation/TU Dresden 

Mar 2019 – Aug 2022

  • Working as a member of the Cluster C: E-mobility and Autonomous Driving
  • Working on modelling and simulation of EV charging strategies in typical and micro grids Development of novel EV charging strategies 

Chief Technology Officer - Dielicious 

Mar 2017 - May 2018

  • Founding member and CTO of start-up related to targeted caloric intake prediction model
  • Responsible for reliable deployment of automated software on centralized server and data visualization on mobile apps

Consultant - Office of Hon. Qasim Askari / FAMLAW Associates

Aug 2018 - Mar 2019

  • Consulted and contributed on project planning stage of different power generation and distribution projects before stakeholder engagement 

Analyst Software Engineer - Afiniti                                     Nov 2016 - Jun 2017

  • Worked as Technical Support Engineer for deployments of Afiniti AI algorithm on servers in Europe. 
  • Assigned clients included O2 - UK and PTCL – Pakistan
  • Responsible for real-time maintenance and monitoring of deployed solutions offshore servers 
  • Tier 1 support for incidence resolution
  • Responsible for managing databases containing call records using SQL

Operations Intern - L'Oréal                                                 

Aug 2016 - Oct 2016

  • Exclusively responsible for clearance of shipments of make-up and haircare products from Customs authorities. 
  • Responsible for accurate forecasting and preparation of orders using SAP for L’Oréal makeup and Garnier products 
  • Exclusively responsible for ethical waste management of previous stock

Teaching Assistant - Lahore University of Management Sciences   

Jan 2015 - Jun 2016 

  • Teaching assistant for the course EE380: Communication Systems
  • Teaching Assistant for the course SS100: Writing and Communication

Projects Intern/Leadership Program - Unilever     

Jul 2015 - Aug 2015

  • Reduced labour and manufacturing time by 40 percent for 168 products using AutoCAD. 
  • Design added to Unilever 2020 development program.
  • Established a checklist to ensure safety standards for Knorr and Rafhan branded foods were met
  • Prediction database that used past data to predict when the next maintenance was due for all machines in the factory 
  • Automated Knorr Noodle Line Monitoring System to calculate Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE)
  • Project Management Steps Implementation through EEM on expansion of Knorr Cubes Manufacturing

Educational History

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering '23

Technische Universität Dresden (In Progress)

Fredrich and Elizabeth Boysen Foundation Scholar

  • Research interests: EV integration in low voltage grids, 
decentralized peer-to-peer transactions, 
  • Perspectives in media about transportation transition, 
renewable energy integration, energy markets

                                                    

Master of Science - MS Energy '18

Texas A&M University

Fulbright Scholar                           

  • Fundamental topics: Smart Grids, Carbon Sequestration, Building Energy Management, Oil and Gas Extraction, 
  • Optimization, Reservoir Modelling, Thermodynamics Fundamentals, Energy Law and Policy Bioenergy
  • Thesis: Energy Security and Resiliency for the Texas National Guard

Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering '16    

Lahore University of Management Sciences

  • Fundamental topics: Renewable energy, Programming, Data Structures, Computer Organization,
  • Advance Calculus, Circuit Analysis, Digital Logic Circuits, Law and Principles of Accounting 
  • Thesis: Computer Vision based Traffic Control System