Adolfo De Unánue

Data science, machine learning, and operations research on national-scale infrastructure.

I build decision systems for port terminals, hospital supply chains, and electoral networks — and write about what they optimize. The work has one through-line: objective functions encode political choices. A model that allocates scarce capacity decides who waits; that decision deserves daylight, not a footnote.

Writing

Oct 2026

The hard part of the flying Roadster is the controller

I measured Tesla's Roadster half loop and kickflip from the livestream telemetry, worked out the forces, the energy and the nitrogen, and wrote a PID controller that flies both stunts. Then I tried to break it.