Kenny Huang ’23, Operations Research and Financial Engineering

Kenny Huang ’23

Major

Operations Research and Financial Engineering

Project Title

Data Science Applications for Electric Reliability

Presentation Link

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Certificate(s): Statistics and Machine Learning, Optimization and Quantitative Decision Science, Applied and Computational Mathematics

I worked through the Princeton Internships in Civic Service (PICS) program as a data science intern in the Office of Electric Reliability (OER) supporting various data-related tasks that the team worked on. At a high level, OER oversees the development and enforcement of mandatory reliability standards for the electric power grid. During my internship, I completed projects in database curation, data analysis and task automation that directly helped OER’s day-to-day operations. While working on these projects, I learned about several of the different aspects of work in OER, as well as how to implement and use Python programming-language libraries such as SQLAlchemy, Selenium and Natural Language Toolkit. My greatest takeaway was an appreciation for what goes on behind the scenes to keep the electrical grid operating and the infrastructure that supports our daily lives running smoothly. This internship solidified for me that I’m still interested in data science as a career, likely within the realm of energy, and I’m looking forward to continuing that journey.