Apoorve Tomer

Co-Founder

apoorvet22@iitk.ac.in

Biography


Apoorve Tomer is a Co-Founder of Viksit Bharat Research Lab, bringing experience across software development, public utility operations, smart metering, and large-scale data systems. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Industrial and Management Engineering at IIT Kanpur (2022-Present), with analytical training in strategy, optimization and decision modeling.

He has served as Assistant Engineer at Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited since March 2017, where he has worked on technology-led monitoring of electricity distribution operations covering over 40 million consumers, developed dashboards for smart metering and revenue monitoring, and supported data-driven analysis of distribution efficiency and operational bottlenecks. Earlier, he worked as a Software Developer at Cisco Systems (2014-2015), developing backend components for networking and switching systems.

He holds an M.Tech in Information Technology from the International Institute of Information Technology, Bengaluru (2012-2014) and a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from UIET Kanpur (2008-2012).

Research Interests


  • Doctoral research in strategy, competition, optimization, welfare analysis, and regulatory decision-making

  • Application of Python, Mathematica and SQL for quantitative analysis, simulation, and validation

  • Smart metering analytics and monitoring of large-scale public utility systems

  • Data-driven assessment of operational efficiency, losses, and process bottlenecks

  • Mentoring students in Python, algorithms, machine learning, and data analysis

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