Energy
Community energy management with solar, storage and V2G
Optimal dispatch of rooftop solar, household and shared batteries, and bidirectional EV charging in a 75-home community, within the feeder capacity and with peak reduction.
Optimization & Operations Research
Better decisions from the data you already have.
I build mathematical optimization models for scheduling, routing, energy and supply chain problems: models that respect every real-world rule and that your team can run, understand and extend.
- Leads optimization and OR projects at EirGrid
- Nearly a decade on the faculty of University College Dublin
- Author, Power System Optimization Modeling in GAMS (Springer, 2017)
- IEEE Senior Member
- INFORMS ENRE Young Researcher Prize (2013)
What I help with
Problems where many decisions interact, constraints are strict, and a good plan is worth real money.
Power systems & energy
Optimization studies for grids, storage and renewables.
Scheduling & workforce rostering
Production schedules and staff rosters that respect every rule.
Routing & logistics
Fleet routes that cut distance, time and cost.
Supply chain & network design
Where to locate facilities and how goods should flow.
Healthcare operations
Better use of staff, rooms and supplies in care delivery.
Model review & solver performance
Fix models that are infeasible, wrong or too slow.
How a project runs
- 1
Discovery call
We discuss the decision you need to make, the data you have and what a good result looks like.
- 2
Scoping proposal
A written proposal with scope, deliverables, timeline and price.
- 3
Build & validate
The model is built and validated against your rules and data, with regular check-ins.
- 4
Handover
Documented code, a results report and a walkthrough, so your team can run and extend the model.
Selected projects
Worked examples of the methods I apply.
Logistics
Dynamic vehicle routing with real-time re-optimization
When a new order arrives or data changes, only the remaining part of each route is re-planned, quickly enough to use during operations.
Healthcare
Hospital physician shift scheduling
Rosters physicians and residents with full shift coverage, rest after night shifts, limits on working days, fair distribution of nights and continuity of care.
Tools I work with
- Python
- Pyomo
- Google OR-Tools
- CP-SAT
- GAMS
- HiGHS
- Gurobi
- IPOPT
Have a planning problem in mind?
Describe it in a few lines. I will tell you honestly whether optimization is the right tool.