Shaylin Cetegen

• B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Connecticut (’19)

Shaylin A. Cetegen, PhD, is a chemical engineer and optimization specialist focused on advancing decarbonization and data-driven decision-making for complex energy systems. She earned her B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Connecticut in 2019 and completed her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2025, where she developed rigorous computational frameworks to evaluate the economic viability of grid-scale energy storage technologies under evolving electricity markets and policy landscapes.

Her doctoral work established a generalized optimization-based framework for the technoeconomic assessment of liquid air energy storage systems across U.S. and European markets. By integrating mixed-integer optimization with policy-sensitive financial modeling, her research enables utilities, policymakers, and investors to make informed long-term infrastructure decisions. Through her involvement with the MIT Energy Initiative’s Future Energy Systems Center, she collaborated with industry and policy stakeholders on strategies for long-duration energy storage deployment and grid reliability in high-renewables futures.

Cetegen’s broader research portfolio spans over a decade and reflects a strong commitment to sustainability and mathematically grounded decision-making. Her work includes contributions to robust optimization, sustainable catalysis, electrocatalytic processes for green hydrogen, materials development, and water remediation, in collaboration with institutions such as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and RWTH Aachen University.

She has authored eight peer-reviewed publications, received the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and secured competitive funding through MIT. Her work has been featured by major media outlets and continues to bridge engineering, economics, and policy to drive impactful, realworld solutions.