Solar photovoltaics + machine learning

Whyte Goodfriend M.

I build data-driven tools for PV system monitoring, anomaly detection, forecasting, and trustworthy energy analytics.

PV + ML

Research focus

Anomaly detection

Core method area

FastAPI + Python

Applied software stack

Research identity

Practical AI for cleaner, more explainable energy systems.

My work connects experimental solar PV knowledge with machine learning, data quality engineering, and software that researchers and operators can actually use.

Trustworthy Energy RAG Chatbot

Document-grounded technical-support assistant with citations, OCR support, provenance, and fault-code lookup.

SolarGraph AI

LLM-powered knowledge graph exploration for PV solar energy and materials-science research.

PV Power Predictor

Machine-learning workflow for predicting photovoltaic power output from energy-system data.

CV snapshot

Research experience, teaching, and applied technical depth.

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Forschungszentrum Juelich

Scientific researcher on outdoor PV data processing, module-performance modeling, ML analysis, and peer-reviewed publication.

RWTH Aachen + UNN

Doctoral work in physics and energy, with prior solid-state/materials science and physics degrees from the University of Nigeria Nsukka.

Teaching + Conferences

University physics lecturing, student supervision, and presentations at international PV and nanotechnology conferences.