Energy Engineering · IIT Delhi, Abu Dhabi
Hand me a system and I'll model it. Then I'll spend far too long poking at it to see where it gives way. Lately that has meant batteries, control loops and PLC logic.
Most of these started as a question I couldn't let go of. What if the inflow surges? What if the sensor lies? This is where I've got to so far. It's all simulation for now, so read the results as a student's results.
Manual and auto modes, high and low level switches, latching, an emergency stop, interlocks, and a timeout alarm for when the tank simply refuses to fill. I wrote seven test cases and the logic passed all seven in simulation.
A 24 hour dispatch model. A simple set of rules decides when to charge and when to discharge, working from the load, solar output, efficiency and the state of charge limits.
Separator inventory dynamics with a PI controller and a valve that saturates, the way real valves do. I hit it with an inflow slug and compared how different tunings coped.
A simulator that builds synthetic voltage signals, throws noise and transients at them, then pits three detectors against each other: a plain threshold, a validation window and a moving average. They're scored on latency and false triggers.
A Windows focus app I'm building for myself. Desktop interface in PySide6, local storage in SQLite, hashed passwords, and a website blocker kept modular so I can swap parts out as it grows.
Industrial training · Jun to Jul 2026
Process Control and Electrical/PLC teams · Musaffah, Abu Dhabi
I spent the summer with the process control and PLC teams, around water treatment and reverse osmosis plants. PFDs, instrument and I/O lists, pump sizing, water balances, interlocks. I also built and tested the automatic tank filling sequence you saw up top.
Biggest takeaway? A tidy model is the easy part. Logic that keeps its head when things fault is where the real work lives.
B.Tech Energy Engineering · graduating July 2028
Coursework by day, and my own models and small software projects alongside it.
Professional Certificate · Engineering Institute of Technology, Australia
Measurement, control valves, PLCs, control philosophies, HAZOP and reliability centred maintenance, plus the basics of HMI, SCADA and DCS.
About
I'm Mohsin Akram Khan, an Energy Engineering student at IIT Delhi, Abu Dhabi (B.Tech, graduating 2028), working on energy storage, process control and PLC automation. In summer 2026 I trained with Gradiant's process control and PLC teams. I like knowing why things behave the way they do, whether that's a battery, a control loop, a language, or a person in a tough spot.
I read a lot, research papers included, and I genuinely enjoy them. Grid forming inverters, energy storage in space and process control have all shaped the questions I want to chase. Outside engineering I read, write and think about life and how people make sense of it.
still learning, still changing my mind when the evidence says soPhilosophy pulls me in, though it tends to hand me more questions than answers. Sometimes that's useful. Sometimes it's just a longer route to getting tangled.
With decisions I'm a pragmatist. Tell me what a claim means, what backs it up, where it could fail and what we can actually do about it. I'll take a small conclusion I can defend over a grand theory that falls over the moment reality turns up.
I notice patterns in everyday situations too. What changed, what the context is quietly saying. Intuition is handy, but I'd rather test it than trust it.
Define it. Reason about it. Then go and test it.
Just paperwork. The real skill building is in the projects.
Engineering & control
AI & digital tools
Some of these are hobbies, some are just how my head works. I keep coming back to them because I enjoy them, not because they need to turn into achievements.
Philosophy is brilliant at exposing assumptions and making easy answers harder. The catch is that questions breed faster than answers, and I don't want thinking to become my excuse for never deciding.
Give me a definition, a counterexample and an honest account of what we don't know. I'd rather say less and mean it.
one genius · exactly two geniuses
Arabic is the one I'm most drawn to. Its structure, its vocabulary, Fusha, and how different it sounds from everyday Gulf speech. The dual form above is a favourite: precise, elegant, and it means two, not "a few". I also love Farsi and Urdu shayari, where one line can carry what a page of explanation can't.
I watch how situations unfold. A small detail can change what a moment means, but one clue isn't a whole story. I try to spot what matters, think fast without rushing, and respond in a way that actually helps.
I'm not as good at it as I'd like, and I'd rather own that and work on the basics than pretend. I want to know why a method works, not just which formula to reach for.
Getting a thought out of my head and onto the page is oddly satisfying. I'm fussy about words. Clear, exact, worth reading, and no dressing up a simple point.
Indoor 25 m pool. I push off the wall rather than dive or tumble turn, and I breathe to one side every three strokes. Sprints and long swims scratch different itches. The long ones keep teaching me the same thing: go out too fast and the middle laps send you the bill.
| Distance | Best | Per 100 m |
|---|---|---|
| 25 m | 16.4 s | 1:05.6 |
| 50 m | 32.0 s | 1:04.0 |
| 100 m | 1:17 | 1:17.0 |
| 200 m | 3:09 | 1:34.5 |
| 400 m | 7:46 | 1:56.5 |
| 500 m | 9:45 | 1:57.0 |
My own times from training, not official race results. That jump between 100 and 200 is the bit I'm working on.
I keep running notes on what I'm learning, films I've watched and lessons I don't want to forget. Four I'm happy to share if you ask. Two are personal and mostly stay that way.
Notes from studying the core stuff: motors, variable frequency drives, electrical machines, power factor and compensation. They're learning notes, so I still check the details against proper references.
English words and sharper alternatives, plus Arabic expressions in Fusha and Gulf speech. Only words I'll actually use.
A running list of films with blunt notes on what worked, what felt far fetched and where the story lost me. Ones that stuck: Ittefaq, Drishyam 1 and 2, Mom, Special 26, 3 Idiots.
Just my opinions, not professional criticism.
Chapter by chapter notes on PLC components, the CPU scan, I/O, memory and control logic. Written while I was learning automation and linking the textbook to what I saw in training.
Lessons, mistakes, observations and the practical rules I want to remember. It's personal, so it isn't published here.
My notes on self control, triggers, urges and changing what I do in the moment. AI helped me organise parts of the writing, but the ideas come from my own observations.
Requesting opens an email draft to me (you still hit send). If nothing opens, write to mohsinak914@gmail.com instead. If I say yes, I'll share a link. None of these files live on this site.
Say hello
Energy systems, modelling, control, automation. If you're working on something along those lines, or you just have a good question, write to me.
mohsinak914@gmail.com
