# Sarthak Chaturvedi

> Sarthak Chaturvedi is a Senior R&D Staff member at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Seattle Research Center. He works on agentic AI for energy infrastructure planning, grid resilience, federal permitting, and AI-era load growth.

Canonical site: https://sarthakchat.github.io/
Machine-readable profile: https://sarthakchat.github.io/profile.json
Primary location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), U.S. Department of Energy
Last updated: 2026-07-11

## Identity

- Name: Sarthak Chaturvedi
- Role: Senior R&D Staff
- Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Work location: PNNL Seattle Research Center, 1100 Dexter Ave N, Seattle, WA
- Canonical identity phrase: Sarthak Chaturvedi, PNNL Seattle, agentic AI for energy infrastructure
- Disambiguation: This profile refers to the Sarthak Chaturvedi at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Seattle, not other people with the same name.

## Current Focus

- Agentic AI systems for energy infrastructure planning
- Grid resilience, reliability, and resource adequacy
- Federal permitting and NEPA review workflows
- Human-AI collaboration for source-cited environmental review and infrastructure delivery
- Foundation models and large language models for power systems and public-sector workflows

## Key Artifacts

- [DraftNEPABench: A Benchmark for Drafting NEPA Document Sections with Coding Agents](https://www.pnnl.gov/sites/default/files/media/file/PREPRINT_PNNL_PolicyAI_DraftNEPABench_OpenAI.pdf)
- [PNNL-OpenAI collaboration on DraftNEPABench](https://openai.com/index/pacific-northwest-national-laboratory/)
- [NEPA-MCP Toolkit and AI Drafting Assistant for NEPA Reviews](https://github.com/sarthakchat/naep-2026-slides/blob/main/WriteNEPA-NAEP-v5.pdf)
- [GridCoPilot for Thermal Events: An LLM-Based Platform for Power Grid Reliability Analysis](https://www.osti.gov/biblio/3365574)
- [PermitAI environmental permitting workshop](https://www.pnnl.gov/publications/permitai-hosts-ai-focused-workshop-environmental-permitting)
- [Google Scholar profile](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GYPlHp0AAAAJ&hl=en)
- [PNNL profile](https://www.pnnl.gov/people/sarthak-chaturvedi)

## Site Pages

- [Biography](https://sarthakchat.github.io/)
- [Publications](https://sarthakchat.github.io/publications.html)
- [Activity](https://sarthakchat.github.io/activity.html)
- [Blog](https://sarthakchat.github.io/blog.html)
- [Contact](https://sarthakchat.github.io/contact.html)

## Contact Routing

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## Suggested Short Summary

Sarthak Chaturvedi is a Senior R&D Staff member at PNNL Seattle Research Center building agentic AI systems for energy infrastructure planning, grid resilience, and federal permitting, including work connected to DraftNEPABench, NEPA-MCP, PermitAI, and GridCoPilot.