Aren Desai
Aren Desai
Data Scientist
Energy · Forecasting · Risk
✉ arenkdesai@gmail.com 🔗 github.com/ArenKDesai 🏠 Madison, WI
Experience
Energy Supply Analyst
Madison Gas and Electric
May 2024 – Present
  • Avoided $150,150+/yr in fees by developing a probabilistic resource adequacy hour classification model with scikit-learn.
  • Produced $73,000+/yr in revenue with ESRs in the day-ahead market using Monte Carlo simulations for optimal price arbitrage.
  • Generated $36,500+/yr in extra revenue by improving MGE's day-ahead LMP forecast via fine-tuning a covariate forecasting model.
  • Reduced overhead management costs by scheduling ML models and data pipelines with Apache Airflow.
Energy Supply and Trading Intern
Madison Gas and Electric
May 2024 – Aug 2025
  • Accelerated MGE's MISO market simulation engine by 97.3% with SciPy optimization routines and Google's OR-Tools.
  • Prototyped a day-ahead LMP multi-horizon forecaster in PyTorch.
Data Analytics Intern
Compeer Financial
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
  • Developed a scikit-learn model to predict loan risk for the risk analysis team.
  • Introduced PyTorch and machine learning into Compeer's tech stack.
Finance Lead
Google Developer Student Club
Sep 2023 – May 2024
  • Created and managed the GDSC bank account; planned meetings, tech talks, and workshops.
  • Judged the 2024 Cheesehacks hackathon.
Projects
Energy Pricing Journalist
↗ Live
Energy Pricing Journalist
  • Continuous download and analysis of real-time LMP data for 300+ pricing nodes with Polars and DuckDB.
  • Live webpage with two-week historic pricing and two-hour forecasts using Chronos2 and Plotly.
  • Deployed backend on Linux with Docker Compose; Cloudflare bucket for the data pipeline.
WRoverSoftware
↗ GitHub
  • Modeled robotic arm movement in Rviz and Gazebo using RelaxedIK for smooth motion planning.
  • Transmitted and compiled CAN messages for motor controllers with ROS2 nodes.
Education
B.S. Computer Science & Data Science
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Artificial Intelligence Numerical Linear Algebra Applied Multivariate Analysis Big Data Systems Algorithms Operating Systems Computer Graphics Geographical Information Systems Data Ethics and Policy
Certifications
Google Cloud — Professional ML Engineer
FICO — DMP Certification
Skills
Languages
PythonRSQLJavaC++
ML & AI
PyTorchTensorFlowscikit-learnSciPy
Data
PandasPolarsDuckDB
Cloud & DevOps
GCPAzureDockerAirflowCloudflareLinux
Visualization
PlotlyPowerBIMatplotlibSeaborn
Domains
Machine LearningStatistical AnalysisData ModelingTime SeriesEnergy Markets