Dr. Patil has spent the last decade working on optimization problems in transportation, logistics, and energy infrastructure. He has shipped production MILP solvers at Amazon, built a fleet electrification business from scratch at Electrotempo, and is now building a platform at LogiModel AI that makes mathematical optimization accessible to non-specialists. He holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from UT Austin and has 470+ citations across network optimization, traffic assignment, and shortest-path algorithms.

VP of Engineering, Electrotempo Inc.

2023 — Present

Vancouver, BC

Runs Optimization, AI, and Engineering at Electrotempo. Responsible for the full product lifecycle: formulation, implementation, and B2B delivery to ports, utilities, and fleet operators.

  • Built and runs the team of scientists and engineers. The team's optimization and forecasting products generated $1.5MM+ ARR in the first year.
  • Developed a fleet electrification optimization engine (MILP + decomposition). Went from prototype to production in five months, $500K ARR at launch.
  • Built a joint site-fleet optimization platform that uses behavioral and scheduling data to minimize total cost of ownership. Cut lifecycle costs 12–31% for Port clients; models supported $320MM in infrastructure investment decisions.
  • Built regional trucking power demand forecasting models using data fusion and regression. Three new utility contracts, $1MM ARR.
  • Led the SOC 2 Type II compliance audit. Set up security policies, access controls, vendor management, and incident response from scratch to clear enterprise procurement.
  • Product lead across all technical initiatives. Takes transportation and energy system constraints and turns them into shipped B2B optimization products.
MILP Decomposition Forecasting B2B Enterprise Team Leadership SOC 2 Product Management

Co-founder & Technical Lead, LogiModel AI

2024 — Present

Vancouver, BC

Building an AI-powered supply chain optimization platform. Operations teams describe their problem in plain English; the platform formulates and solves the MILP. No OR consultant required.

  • Built a natural-language-to-optimization compiler: a deterministic pipeline that parses LaTeX formulations into solvable MILP code. 83%+ accuracy on the NLP4LP benchmark.
  • Wrote 23+ compiler subsystems covering parsing, semantic analysis, normalization, code emission, and programmatic constraint-sign validation. Replaced LLM-based validation with deterministic correctness checks.
  • Built the full production stack: PostgreSQL (5-schema layout, Alembic migrations), RBAC auth (JWT, 4 roles, 16 permissions), Docker/CI, and a Compiler API with MCP support for AI-agent integration.
  • Built a simulation scenario builder that prepares sensitivity analyses from solved models and uploaded datasets.
NLP Compiler Design MILP Full-Stack RBAC API Design Startup

Applied Scientist, Amazon Inc.

2022 — 2023

Seattle, WA

  • Built a MILP model that automated short-term flow and carrier allocation across Amazon's US supply chain. Cut staffing costs 1.2% and dropped plan WAPE from 5% to 3.3%.
  • The model enforces third-party carrier contracts and glide paths for peak event days. Reduced annual contract violation penalties by $500MM.
  • Improved last-mile delivery topology optimization with predictive regression. Travel-time WAPE went from 16% to 11%.
Supply Chain MILP Regression Last-Mile Logistics

Graduate Research & Teaching Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin

2015 — 2022

Austin, TX

  • Improved post-disaster road recovery sequencing using dynamic programming and convex optimization, reducing solution complexity from factorial to exponential.
  • Designed graph algorithms for oversize/overweight vehicle routing for TxDOT, cutting transportation and pavement costs by 23%.
  • Won first prize nationally in the 2019 AWS & INFORMS Computing Cluster Competition with a joint demand forecasting/inventory control model.
  • Developed efficient algorithms for symmetric traffic assignment, reducing solution time by ~50%, later adapting them for rail-road network electrification.
Dynamic Programming Convex Optimization Graph Algorithms Traffic Assignment

Ph.D. in Operations Research

The University of Texas at Austin

2022

Dissertation: Traffic Assignment Models — Applicability and Efficacy
Advisor: Dr. Stephen D. Boyles

M.S.E. in Transportation Engineering

The University of Texas at Austin

2016

Thesis: Simulation Evaluation of Emerging Estimation Techniques for Multinomial Probit Models

B.Tech. in Civil Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

2015

Thesis: Network Algorithms for Sustainability Objectives

Best Student Paper Award, 2022

Texas chapter of ITE International — best student transportation paper in Texas

Professional Development Awards, 2018–2021

Four awards from the Graduate School at UT Austin for presentations at INFORMS and TRB annual meetings

Winner, fORged by Machines Competition, 2019

Awarded by INFORMS Computing Society and AWS for best demand prediction/inventory control model

Scholarship for Graduate Study in ITS, 2018

Intelligent Transportation Society Texas chapter — academic achievements

Ryuichi Kitamura Paper Award, 2017

Best paper award for a professor-student pair by Travel Analysis Methods section (ADB00) of the Transportation Research Board

Languages & Libraries

Python SQL MATLAB R AMPL Pandas NumPy SciPy Scikit-learn TensorFlow PyTorch XGBoost Matplotlib Seaborn Plotly

Optimization & Tools

Gurobi CPLEX Xpress PuLP SimPy ArcGIS QGIS TransCAD AWS

Infrastructure & Enterprise

PostgreSQL Docker CI/CD RBAC / JWT Auth REST API Design MCP Protocol SOC 2 Compliance Alembic Migrations

Leadership

Team Management (8+) B2B Enterprise Sales Product Strategy Security & Compliance Client Delivery Startup Fundraising

Certifications

AWS Cloud Practitioner (CLF-001) Engineering Education Certificate, UT Austin

Professional Appointments & Reviewing

  • Member and Communications Coordinator, TRB Standing Committee on Railroad Operating Technologies (2021–2025)
  • Grant referee for NSF, National Academy of Sciences ACRP ($400K) and NCHRP ($350K) programs, and Amazon Research Awards ($80K)
  • Guest Editor, Modern Transportation journal
  • Paper referee for 120+ reviews across Transportation Research Parts B/C/E, Transportmetrica A, Networks and Spatial Economics, Transportation Research Record, TRB Annual Meeting, ASEE, and others