About Me

Luis Larota, MSc

hi, i'm luis – building data products with the supplier quality engineering team at Tesla. my journey spans engineering, mining, sustainability, and tech. Batteryroots coming soon – stay tuned! research expertise: operations research, sup. machine learning, reinforcement learning, mining engineering.

My Career

Tesla Inc - Palo Alto (USA)

building data products with the supplier quality engineering team - my journey spans engineering, sustainability and some code!

Feb. 2024 - Present
Supplier Quality Engineer

Tesla Inc - Palo Alto (USA)

sourcing cathode materials for EV batteries responsibly

Sept. 2023 - Dec. 2023
Battery Responsible Sourcing Intern

Rio Tinto - Boron Site (USA)

pushing mine planning to use >1% of their data

June 2023 - Aug. 2023
Data Engineering Intern

South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (USA)

researched optimization algorithms for fuel dispatching in open pit mines (the math was theoretical – mines aren’t ready yet!).

Jan. 2022 - June 2023
MSc. in Mining Engineering

TiMining & Las Bambas Copper Mine (Chile & Peru)

added 20% mining knowledge to code in a digital twin at TiMining. at Las Bambas, saw mining engineers as users, not creators!

Nov. 2020 - Jan. 2020
Data Engineer & Graduate Mining Engineer

Pontifical Catholic University & Catholic University (Chile)

tire degradation research - started on sustainability journey!

July 2017 - Dec. 2017
Exchange Student

Publications

Models to Assess Fatigue Degradation

Luis Larota and Carlos Nakousi
Oral Presentation at the XXIII International Seminar on Asset Management, Santiago - Chile, 2017
[pdf] / [Blog] / [Talk]