• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Rakesh Radhakrishnan

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)

Technology-to-Market Advisor

Dr. Rakesh Radhakrishnan currently serves as a Technology-to-Market Advisor at the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) where he supports technology commercialization efforts for the distributed generation, additive manufacturing, carbon neutral aviation, data center efficiency and artificial intelligence programs. He joined ARPA-E in 2019 after a stint at Saudi Aramco as a strategy and business development specialist for their power business. He began his career at United Technologies Research Center (UTRC), managing many renewable energy and energy efficiency research programs. After UTRC, he worked as a strategy consultant at Navigant and Thomson Reuters, supporting a variety of projects across the energy value chain. Radhakrishnan holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Tech, an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, and a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia. He has published several peer reviewed technical papers in the field of heterogeneous catalysis and holds six patents.

Sessions With Rakesh Radhakrishnan

Wednesday, 20 March

  • 02:30pm - 03:00pm (CST) / 20/mar/2024 07:30 pm - 20/mar/2024 08:00 pm

    Digital / AI Applications in Managing Energy Demand
    Policy & Regulatory

    Reduced energy use is carbon negative. AI in principle can help enable this in both industrial and domestic settings, from control of renewables use in grids to optimization of industrial and manufacturing processes and smart lighting and heating of homes. In which demand-reduction applications can AI create the most impact? What are the barriers to implementing such solutions? How can such solutions be retrofitted into existing energy systems and how long until they can make an impact?