Mohini Bariya
Lecturer at Rhiza Research
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMohini Bariya is a lecturer and principal scientist with 11 years of experience at the intersection of power systems, data science, and energy access, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She leads open-technology research at Rhiza Research and has hands-on experience deploying grid-monitoring solutions and low-cost sensing strategies across multiple countries. Her background blends academic rigor—a PhD in EECS from UC Berkeley—with practical roles at startups and global institutions like the IEA and The World Bank, where she translated modeling and field data into policy-relevant insights. She has built novel methods for visibility and reliability estimation on distribution systems, developed time-series compression for grid telemetry, and taught power systems courses at Berkeley. Known for connecting users, funders, and technical teams, she bridges research, product development, and capacity-building in energy systems. An illustrator and curriculum developer in earlier work, she brings an uncommon mix of technical depth and public-facing communication.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
English, Hindi, Persian, French
Github Skills (13)
database-connector6
jupyter-notebook5
machine-learning4
jupyter4
grid4
python4
database3
data-science3
infrastructure3
firmware1
timeseries-database1
tooling1
hardware1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
m-bariya/UndertakeOvertake
Nov 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
m-bariya/m-bariya.github.io
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
A beautiful, simple, clean, and responsive Jekyll theme for academics
Contributions:16 pushes in 1 month
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