Philippe Kirschen
Optimization Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilippe Kirschen is an Optimization Engineer with 11 years’ experience applying mathematical optimization to transportation and mobility systems, currently building solutions at Gridmatic in San Francisco. He progressed from MIT research and NASA internships to leading system optimization at Hyperloop One, blending rigorous aeronautics training (SM, MIT) with hands-on vehicle and infrastructure design. Philippe excels at turning complex transport constraints into implementable, data-driven optimization models and has repeatedly bridged research and product teams to move high‑risk projects toward deployment. Notably, his background spans both startup hyperloop development and academic research, giving him rare fluency in high‑throughput simulation workflows and practical system tradeoffs.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E), Aerospace Engineering (Economics minor), 3.96/4.00, Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E), Aerospace Engineering (Economics minor), 3.96/4.00 at University of MichiganMaster of Science (S.M.), Aeronautics, Master of Science (S.M.), Aeronautics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCheadle Hulme School, Manchester, England
French, Spanish, German
Github Skills (53)
electricity10
energy-data10
energy10
power-systems10
energy-system10
geometric10
renewable-energy10
climate-change10
system-analysis10
optimisation10
electrical-engineering10
photovoltaic10
pypsa9
cvxopt9
python9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
convexengineering/gpfit
Oct 2016 - Oct 2021
Fit posynomials to data
Contributions:2 releases, 32 reviews, 114 commits in 5 years 1 month
fitjulia
hoburg/hoburg.github.io
Jan 2016 - Dec 2017
Web content for
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 6 comments in 1 year 11 months
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