Mehmet Giray Öğüt

PhD Candidate, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

About

I am a PhD candidate in electrical engineering at Stanford University, and member of convex optimization group advised by Prof. Stephen Boyd. My research is supported by U.S. Department of Energy as part of Renewable Energy Generator Risk under Outlier Weather (REGROW) project. I collaborate with SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory GISMO group and work closely with Dr. Bennet Meyers. I completed my bachelors in electrical engineering at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. I am originally from Ankara, Turkey.

My expected graduation date is June 2025.

Research

My research is on developing convex optimization methods to integrate renewable energy resources such as solar energy into the power grid. Current paradigm of power grid operation is not fully designed to handle the variability and uncertainty of renewable energy resources (e.g. rotating outages in California on August 2020). I am interested in developing explainable machine learning models to do probabilistic forecasting of renewable energy resources and then design robust optimization methods to integrate these forecasts into the power grid operation. I try to make sure that methods I develop are explainable and interpretable so that they can be safely used in practice. To achieve this goal, I use tools from convex optimization, machine learning, and statistics.

Papers

Below are my recent papers. You can find the full list of my publications on Google Scholar. I also did some technical illustrations for the papers I co-authored and they were chosen as journal covers.

Teaching

I was the instructor of EE364A:Convex Optimization I class in summer 2024. I taught the class to 43 students, designed the homeworks and final exam. I was responsible for reorganizing teaching material, coordinating with TAs, and grading. I was also the teaching assistant of the same class in summer 2022 and winter 2023. If you are studying the material in the book or in additional exercises please do not hesitate to reach out to me so that we can think together. You can find coding tutorials on CVXPY.

My previous teaching experience at Stanford include:

Awards, Conferences & Honors

Contact

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