Today’s guest is Balaji Padmanathan, Data Scientist & Masters Graduate at Uniersity College Dublin. Balaji was the winner in the Best Application of AI in a Student Project at the 2023 AI Awards for his project focusing on optimising electric vehicle charging station locations in Dublin. The aim of the project was to make Dublin more sustainable and serve as a model for global efforts to combat climate change and promote responsible urban development.

Topics include:

• Optimizing electric vehicle charging stations for viability
• Pivoting to DBSCAN and ranking methods due to data scarcity
• Utilized open source data such as OpenStreetMap & OpenChargeMap for analysis
• Validating analysis using existing EV stations for accuracy assessment