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Physics & engineering R&D.
Data science & ML.
Working across both as one practice.

Carlo Fanara Abu Dhabi

What this site is about

For years this lived as two separate blogs. One on physics, materials science and industrial engineering. The other on data science, statistics and machine learning. Each still stands on its own — the posts below are grouped in different strands, like:

  • Energy & industrial systems modeling, where physical process understanding mixes with ML and optimization
  • Experimental & sensor data pipelines, from instrumentation and data acquisition through to production-grade analytics and dashboards
  • Applied ML and AI for scientific & engineering teams — time series, symbolic regression, forecasting methods, grounded in the physics of the system being modeled
  • Standalone issues in fundamental aspects of data science — from dimensionality to feature engineering to data representation
  • Discussions on physics

Often the technical problem I touch draws on several of these at once, whether the problem shows up in text, in code, or in technical depth.

The archives

Physics & Engineering

Industrial R&D notebook

Data acquisition & control, experimental physics, materials and process work.

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Data Science & ML

Bits and chews

R, Python, and the data science pipeline — nine posts from 2016, several cross-published on DataCamp and RPubs.

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Get in touch

Consulting inquiries, collaborations, or questions about a post: carlofan@mail.com · LinkedIn

Who am I?

Physicist and data scientist, 25+ years across applied physics (plasma, materials) and data science / ML — now working under one consulting practice.

Independent data-science and analytics consulting (2013–2016; 2021–2023). Head of a Data Science R&D Lab (2019–2021). Senior Data Scientist and consultant roles (2017–2019) across telecom, industrial, and public-sector clients. Since 2023, I lead applied energy-systems modeling work — combining physics-based device models with grid analytics and planning — for renewable-energy R&D in the UAE.

Co-author, The PyPSA Handbook (Elsevier, 2025).

Current interests: Symbolic Regression, Time series and IoT.

Teaching

  • Matlab
  • R & Data Science

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Places I visit

  • Grim or cheery?
  • Data Science Central
  • KDnuggets
  • RPubs
  • R-Bloggers
  • ...or me elsewhere

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