Hi! I am Priyadarshan (PD). Welcome to my website. I am building an agentic future for Operations Researchers and Supply Chain Systems.

My work at Electrotempo and Amazon has focused on building optimization systems for infrastructure planning. At Electrotempo, I have led the engineering and science teams to develop various classical (forecasting, classification, etc.), modern AI (GenAI, LLMs, etc.), and Operations Research (MILPs, optimization under uncertainty) based solutions to underwrite real world investments and decisions. At Amazon, I have focused on building optimization and classical ML based solutions for labor planning and routing.

I have a PhD in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. My research has focused on transportation network optimization in the realm of operations research. In my spare time, I enjoy travelling, playing racquetball, kayaking, social dancing, photography, and much more. The rest of this website will give you a glimpse into my academic and non-academic life. My research interests lie in network flow theory and optimization, algorithms, and data sciences.

My academic background is in civil and architectural engineering, with a bachelors degree from IIT Madras and a masters degree from The University of Texas at Austin.

Academics aside, I am an avid traveller, having travelled to 26 countries so far. The highlights of my trips include midnight sun in Norway and jumping in freezing seas in the Lofoten islands, walking to the India-Pakistan border through an active landmine field, trans-US rail trip spanning Washington DC - NY - Chicago - LA - Austin, kayaking around coastal grottos in Portugal, and many others. After all, as St. Augustine said -

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

My future plans include advancing the boundaries of engineering and optimization, leaving my mark on the field in the form of meaningful impact. Feel free to email me!