BLOG & FIELD NOTES
Monthly teardown of automation engagements, optimization experiments, and research notebooks.
Each entry documents what worked in production and the trade-offs behind tool selection.
Automation Playbooks
Jan 2025 • 6 min read
Group-Robust RL for Hospital Operations
Behind the scenes of the GRPO engagement with a healthcare network. I outline the audit template
used to capture fairness constraints, how we extended PPO with constraint critics, and the handoff
rituals that kept clinicians confident in every recommendation.
- Reinforcement Learning
- Healthcare
- Governance
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Engineering Logs
Dec 2024 • 5 min read
Manufacturing-Tolerant Photonic Crystal Optimizers
Notes from building the Bayesian optimization loop that achieved a 67% Q-factor lift while preserving
8% fabrication tolerance. Covers the simulation harness, batching strategy, and how we quantified
disorder robustness before taping out hardware.
- Bayesian Opt
- Photonics
- Simulation
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Systems Thinking
Nov 2024 • 4 min read
Control Theory for Volatile Supply Chains
A practitioner's walkthrough of applying LQR to the Goodwin oscillator for inventory planning. I detail
how we calibrated macroeconomic drivers, stabilized oscillations, and translated the model into an
operations dashboard for portfolio companies.
- Control
- Supply Chain
- Simulation
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