Jonas Kersulis
Senior Associate
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonas Kersulis is a Senior Associate and market design advocate at Potomac Economics with 12 years of experience applying optimization, data science, and software engineering to electricity markets. He previously built production Python platforms and a real-time SCED clearing engine at ERCOT, where he also co-founded and grew the DATA Group from a few users to 180 active members, driving organization-wide adoption of modern tooling. A University of Michigan PhD with deep research experience in power-system optimization, graph-theoretic grid analysis, and time-series demand metrics, he pairs academic rigor with hands-on engineering. Jonas contributes to open-source power-system tooling (notably PowerModels.jl core logic) and has a proven track record of turning complex policy and grid problems into practical, auditable solutions. He also brings a strong teaching bent—designing interactive course material and running recurring training that measurably raised technical capability across teams.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering: Systems, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering: Systems at University of MichiganBachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering, 4.0, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering, 4.0 at University of Missouri-Saint Louis
Github Skills (6)
network10
pow10
opt10
julia10
optimization10
linear-programming8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lanl-ansi/PowerModels.jl
Sep 2016 - Sep 2018
A Julia/JuMP Package for Power Network Optimization
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 22 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Jonas primarily contributed to the core logic of the `powermodels.jl` package, focusing on foundational elements and data processing. Their work involved code cleanup, addressing typos, and refactoring existing code to improve clarity and maintainability. They also made significant changes to variable definitions and constraint implementations within the power flow models. These contributions align with developing and refining the core components of the power network optimization package.
jumppower-networkoptimizationoptimal-power-flowpower
kersulis/jupyter-slides-template
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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