Hi! I am a Senior Postdoctoral Associate in Professor Saurabh Amin's Resilient Infrastructure Networks Lab, and affiliated with MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI)  and the Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems (LIDS). 

My research is focused on the climate-resilient planning and operations of both macro and distributed energy systems to identify actionable energy transition pathways that are characterized by economic viability, resiliency against extreme events, and robustness toward system uncertainties. In doing so, I take an integrated approach (different energy vectors, various planning levels) and develop mathematical models and utilize ML techniques to i) evaluate the system impact of different technologies and policies; ii) advance scalability and fidelity of energy modeling tools; iii) help guide siting and sizing decisions for energy infrastructure projects; iv) identify new business models to incentives the mass adoption of distributed energy resources (DERs) for resiliency purposes. 

Prior to MIT, I was a PhD student at NC State University, primarily working on hierarchical decision-making and optimization under uncertainty and their applications in production planning, supply chain, transportation,  and capacity expansion problems. I hold an MSc from Sharif University and a BSc from the University of Tabriz, both in Industrial Engineering.