Statistical Learning Developer in Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Electricity demand prediction using current population categories, and weather condition, help companies to plan their usage of electricity to reduce cost.

Western Power had a hack-a-gig competition to help them use their smart meter collected data, weather conditions and population categories to determine their electricity demand. This helps clients to achieve minimum cost and help western Power to plan their electricity network.

My solution was the winning solution and was written in Python, using Keras for neural network, and used Mixed input model neural network which consisted of the following inputs:
1. Embedding of categorical fields like household categories, days to public holidays, days after a public holiday (up to 5 days).
2. Tabular numerical data for weather condition.
3. LSTM of the previous usage pattern of electricity.

These inputs were then concatenated into a fully connected deep neural network with one output variable to estimate the current usage of electricity per household. The data is then aggregated, to reduce error by localities. My solution gave the best result in the competition and I won the best reward in the competition and contracted with Western Power to do the project.

BHP mines have a large number of haul trucks, light vehicles, dozers, excavators, and others. There is a need to detect when drivers exceed the speed limit, do harsh breaking, and take turns at high speed. These events lead to fast wear of tires and required coaching drivers to stop doing that. Light vehicles should not approach haul trucks less than 50m unless they have positive communication since the haul truck driver may not be able to see the light vehicle. Detecting these events helps increase safety in mines.

I wrote a C# application to collect GPS location data from various sources streamed through Kafka and then calculate the speed and orientation and using Kalman filter to reduce error in the GPS measurements and I stored the data in Elasticsearch spatiotemporal database. I then used this data to determine events using Elasticsearch database. I was the lead developer in the project.

Geospatial desktop application written in C#, .Net distributed free from the department of mines and petroleum to view their spatial data and DMP internal products.

The application won Government Spatial Solution in May 2011 from WAESA. The application is still in use, distributed by the government, and has a high number of downloads.