Cem Keske is a visiting student at MIT CEEPR, specializing in energy storage risk management for his master’s thesis. He is involved in the “Stored Energy Reserve Market for Grid Resource Adequacy” project, where he builds optimization models to enable making risk-aware energy storage decisions under renewable energy uncertainty.
Previously, Cem was a master’s student in Energy Science & Technology at ETH Zurich, with a focus on electricity markets and optimization. His recent work on carbon- and revenue-optimal, degradation-aware battery arbitrage operation was published in Energy Conversion and Management (2024). He holds a B.Sc. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from EPFL and has experience in roles such as Junior Carbon Consultant and Energy Management & Optimization Engineer.
Outside of the lab, Cem is a DJ and musician, and he also enjoys performing street gigs with his guitar.