Scholar
Mete Şeref Ahunbay
Google Scholar ID: lRwKRd8AAAAJ
Technical University of Munich
Citations & Impact
Citations
56
H-index
6
i10-index
1
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Journal Publications:
- - Solving Large-Scale Electricity Market Pricing Problems in Polynomial Time (European Journal of Operational Research, accepted 11th May, 2024)
- - Pricing Optimal Outcomes in Coupled and Non-Convex Markets: Theory and Applications to Electricity Markets (Operations Research, accepted 17th April, 2024)
- - The Price of Anarchy of Two-Buyer Sequential Multiunit Auctions (ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, accepted 27th February 2023)
- Conference Papers:
- - Semicoarse Correlated Equilibria and LP-Based Guarantees for Gradient Dynamics in Normal-Form Games (EC'25)
- - On the Uniqueness of Bayesian Coarse Correlated Equilibria in Standard First-Price and All-Pay Auctions (SODA'25)
- - Improved Two Sample Revenue Guarantees via Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (SAGT'21)
- - The Price of Stability of Envy-Free Equilibria in Multi-Buyer Sequential Auctions (SAGT'21)
- - Two-Buyer Sequential Multiunit Auctions with No Overbidding (SAGT'20)
- Outreach / Dissemination:
- - Recent Challenges in Designing Electricity Spot Markets (NBER, 2023)
- - Electricity Market Design 2030-2050: Shaping Future Electricity Markets for a Climate-Neutral Europe (Synergie)
Research Experience
- Currently a postdoctoral researcher at CNRS in Grenoble, LIG, working with Prof. Bary Pradelski and Prof. Panayotis Mertikopoulos.
- Starting January 2026, will be a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford with Prof. Paul Goldberg, funded by a Walter Benjamin Fellowship from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).
Education
- BSc: Mathematics & Physics (Joint Honours) at McGill University
- MSc: Economics at the London School of Economics
- PhD: Mathematics at McGill University (supervised by Prof. Adrian Vetta)
- First Postdoc: Technical University of Munich (with Prof. Martin Bichler)
Background
- Research interests: (convex) optimization and its applications in the analysis of games, with an emphasis on learning dynamics (especially in auctions), efficiency of mechanisms. Previously worked on pricing in electricity markets.
Miscellany
- Starting January 2026, will be a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford, funded by a Walter Benjamin Fellowship from the German Research Foundation.
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