Akshay Rao

Akshay is a PhD student in Environmental Engineering at Stanford University and holds a B.S. and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University. He is interested in developing software to support decision making in complex systems within the energy-water-carbon nexus. His current work involves representing infrastructure planning and operating decisions as physics constrained optimization problems and solving these to inform electrification and decarbonization strategies. Akshay has also contributed to a few open source python projects: 1) WaterTAP - a decision support tool for non-traditional water supplies. 2) Electric-Emission-Cost (eec) - a tool to automatically build energy cost and emissions optimization models subject to electric tariffs.