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<span class="seg"><span class="led"></span> System status: <b>Nominal</b></span>
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<h1 class="reveal">Amar <span class="accent">Akram</span></h1>
<p class="hero__tagline reveal">I build and control smart energy systems — from circuit boards to learning algorithms.</p>
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Master's student in Electrical Engineering at Hochschule Bielefeld (HSBI), working where
power systems meet machine learning. My focus is making decentralized energy systems —
microgrids, distribution networks, and flexible loads — stable, efficient, and trustworthy.
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<p class="eyebrow">Selected work</p>
<h2>Five projects in smart-grid engineering.</h2>
<p>Recent work from my Master's studies — spanning applied forecasting software,
reinforcement-learning research, and embedded hardware. Each was built and evaluated end to end.</p>
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<!-- Project 01 — NetzPilot -->
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<div class="project__chan"><span class="led"></span>CH-01 // Forecast-Engine<span class="cat">Software · Energy forecasting</span></div>
<h3>NetzPilot</h3>
<p class="project__sub">A leakage-safe day-ahead load-forecasting and §14a grid-coordination tool for small municipal utilities — with calibrated P10/P50/P90 uncertainty bands and fair curtailment scheduling.</p>
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<span><b>3.36%</b> MAPE</span><span><b>74/76</b> significant</span><span><b>+23.1%</b> median skill</span>
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<span class="tag">Python</span><span class="tag">LightGBM</span><span class="tag">Conformal prediction</span><span class="tag">FastAPI</span><span class="tag">Time-series</span>
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<div class="project__chan"><span class="led"></span>CH-02 // Microgrid-Control<span class="cat">Machine learning · Control</span></div>
<h3>Multi-Agent RL for Microgrid Control</h3>
<p class="project__sub">Four cooperative policies stabilise a simulated 5.5 V DC microgrid without a forecast — released as the final Phase 6 T7/G8 result bundle with scoped caveats.</p>
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<span><b>252</b> artifacts</span><span><b>20</b> eval seeds</span><span><b>693</b> tests</span>
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<div class="project__chan"><span class="led"></span>CH-03 // Energy-Node<span class="cat">Hardware · Embedded systems</span></div>
<h3>Smart Energy Node</h3>
<p class="project__sub">A four-source DC-microgrid testbed with isolated sensing, programmable loads and a measured PV emulator — the physical HIL target for my grid-control work.</p>
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<span><b>5.5 V</b> DC bus</span><span><b>7/7</b> sensors found</span><span><b>4×</b> sources</span>
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<!-- Project 04 — Resilienz-Checker (Makeathon) -->
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<div class="project__chan"><span class="led"></span>CH-04 // Resilience-Check<span class="cat">Makeathon · Energy resilience</span></div>
<h3>Resilienz-Checker</h3>
<p class="project__sub">An assessment framework that scores the energy resilience of company sites across electricity and heat — built in a three-person team at the Green.OWL Future Energies makeathon, for a challenge set by Energieservice Westfalen Weser. Awarded 2nd place.</p>
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<span><b>2nd</b> place</span><span><b>3</b>-person team</span><span><b>Jul 2026</b> Bielefeld</span>
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<span class="tag">Energy resilience</span><span class="tag">Scoring framework</span><span class="tag">Web prototype</span><span class="tag">Teamwork</span>
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<!-- Project 05 — Load Forecasting (XGBoost) -->
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<div class="project__chan"><span class="led"></span>CH-05 // Forecast-Lab<span class="cat">Machine learning · Time-series</span></div>
<h3>Load Forecasting with XGBoost</h3>
<p class="project__sub">Hourly electricity-load forecasting on the AEP grid region with calendar + lag features and XGBoost — benchmarked against strong naive baselines, with a Streamlit demo.</p>
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<span><b>−84.5%</b> MAE vs. baseline</span><span><b>142 MW</b> test MAE</span><span><b>24 h</b> recursive forecast</span>
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<span class="tag">Python</span><span class="tag">XGBoost</span><span class="tag">scikit-learn</span><span class="tag">Streamlit</span><span class="tag">Time-series</span>
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<p class="eyebrow">About · System operator</p>
<h2>Engineering the grid of the future.</h2>
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I'm Amar, a Master's student in Electrical Engineering at Hochschule Bielefeld (HSBI).
My work sits at the intersection of power systems and machine learning: taking
decentralized energy — rooftop solar, wind, biogas, batteries, flexible loads — and
making it behave like one stable, coordinated system.
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Over the past year I've built that stack at every layer myself. I designed and wired the
physical hardware of a microgrid node, trained the reinforcement-learning controllers
that run on it, and developed forecasting software validated on real utility data.
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What ties it together is a commitment to <strong>rigorous evaluation</strong> — honest
baselines, calibrated uncertainty, statistical significance, and a willingness to report
what didn't work. I'd rather have a result that survives scrutiny than a number that looks good.
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<h3>Machine Learning & Data</h3>
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<span class="tag tag--solid tag--meter" data-level="5">Reinforcement learning<span class="meter" aria-hidden="true"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span></span><span class="tag tag--solid tag--meter" data-level="4">PPO / MARL<span class="meter" aria-hidden="true"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span></span><span class="tag tag--solid tag--meter" data-level="5">Conformal prediction<span class="meter" aria-hidden="true"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span></span><span class="tag tag--solid tag--meter" data-level="4">Gradient boosting<span class="meter" aria-hidden="true"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span></span><span class="tag tag--solid tag--meter" data-level="5">PyTorch<span class="meter" aria-hidden="true"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span></span><span class="tag tag--solid tag--meter" data-level="4">Statistical evaluation<span class="meter" aria-hidden="true"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span></span>
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<h3>Control & Power Electronics</h3>
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<span class="tag tag--meter" data-level="4">DC microgrids<span class="meter" aria-hidden="true"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span></span><span class="tag tag--meter" data-level="4">Droop & MPC control<span class="meter" aria-hidden="true"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span></span><span class="tag tag--meter" data-level="3">Power-path design<span class="meter" aria-hidden="true"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span></span><span class="tag tag--meter" data-level="3">Supercapacitor storage<span class="meter" aria-hidden="true"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span></span><span class="tag tag--meter" data-level="4">Sensing & metering<span class="meter" aria-hidden="true"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span></span>
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<h3>Embedded & Software</h3>
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<span class="tag tag--meter" data-level="4">ESP32-S3 / FreeRTOS<span class="meter" aria-hidden="true"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span></span><span class="tag tag--meter" data-level="4">Modbus & MQTT<span class="meter" aria-hidden="true"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span></span><span class="tag tag--meter" data-level="5">Python<span class="meter" aria-hidden="true"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span></span><span class="tag tag--meter" data-level="3">FastAPI<span class="meter" aria-hidden="true"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span></span><span class="tag tag--meter" data-level="3">Docker<span class="meter" aria-hidden="true"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span></span><span class="tag tag--meter" data-level="3">LTspice & Altium<span class="meter" aria-hidden="true"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></span></span>
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<h2>Bachelor's thesis.</h2>
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<span class="thesis-card__stamp">Archived · HSBI · 2025</span>
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<h3>Ohmmessmodul für automatisches Prüfsystem</h3>
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For my Bachelor's thesis I developed a resistance-measurement module for an automated
electronics test system — comparing measurement methods (four-wire / Kelvin sensing and the
Wheatstone bridge), dimensioning the analog signal chain and the microcontroller control logic,
and validating the finished module through practical accuracy measurements. Carried out in
collaboration with an industry partner.
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<span class="tag tag--solid">B.Eng. Electrical Engineering</span><span class="tag">HSBI · 2025</span><span class="tag">Four-wire sensing</span><span class="tag">Analog signal chain</span><span class="tag">Industry collaboration</span>
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<figcaption>Wheatstone bridge · unknown arm <b>Rx</b></figcaption>
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<p>Interested in my work on smart grids, control, or applied machine learning?
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