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Engineering
How systems actually work — processes, constraints, reliability. It's where I started, in the engine rooms of ships, and it still keeps the models honest.
shahnawaz_akhtar@iese_business_school:~
> model complex systems_
PhD researcher in operations.
Engineering × Economics × Computation.
Passionate about Synthetic & Systems Biology.
$ explore [about] [research] [trajectory]
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$ cat about.md
I solve problems where engineering, economics and computation meet — turning complex, uncertain systems into models, and models into better decisions.
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Economics
Why people and firms behave the way they do — incentives, prices, markets and the trade-offs behind every operational choice.
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Computation
How to make answers scale — optimization, machine learning and production inference at the size and speed real systems demand.
= better decisions inside complex systems_
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$ ls ./research --long
Systems that move,
decisions that matter.
./optimize/
Operations & optimization
Mathematical models of production and service systems — where to place capacity, how to sequence work, when waiting is worth it.
./stochastic/
Uncertainty & randomness
Demand, delays and breakdowns are random. A useful model has to be honest about what it cannot know.
./learn/
Learning for decisions
From sequence models to reinforcement learning — data-driven policies that act, not just predict.
./econ/
Economics of operations
Prices, incentives and markets shape how real systems behave. Where engineering meets economics.
status:
PhD Researcher, Operations — IESE Business School, Barcelona
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$ git log --trajectory --graph --reverse
branch education 07 commits
branch work 05 commits
latest → earliestscroll ↓ to travel back in time
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$ cat stack.json | jq
{
"focus": ["machine learning", "mathematical modeling",
"process optimization"],
"methods": ["reinforcement learning", "deep learning",
"optimization algorithms", "economic modelling",
"causal analysis", "network science"],
"licenses": {
"marine_engineer": "Class 4",
"pilot": "EASA PPL ✈"
},
"certifications": {
"cfa_level_1": "passed",
"open_water_diver": "🌊 certified"
},
"languages": ["English", "Hindi", "Urdu", "Spanish"],
"based_in": "Barcelona, ES",
"open_to": "research collaborations"
}An engineer's hands.
An economist's lens.
A programmer's tools.
Three disciplines, one workflow: understand the system, model the incentives, compute the answer.
- licensedClass 4 Marine Engineer⚓
- licensedEASA Private Pilot (PPL)✈
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$ ssh shahnawaz --open-channel
Have a complex system?
Let's untangle it.
Open to research collaborations, conversations and hard problems at the edge of operations, economics and computation.
$ connect --linkedin ↗Interactive shell. Type help to list commands.