Ke Che

Ke Che is a Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy (CS3). She earned her BS from Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology and received her PhD from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, both in Atmospheric Physics. Her doctoral research quantified urban carbon emissions in Beijing through Bayesian atmospheric inversion of column CO₂ observations, combining atmospheric transport modeling with inverse estimation techniques to constrain city-scale emission fluxes. During her subsequent two-year postdoctoral appointment, Dr. Che further developed a high-resolution (1 km, hourly) tile-based inverse method for the Paris metropolitan area, integrating multiple observational constraints to quantify urban CO₂ emissions and independently evaluate emission inventories.
At CS3, Dr. Che works on integrating the MIT-developed 12-box inverse model into the Integrated Methane Inversion (IMI) framework to estimate emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) as part of the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE). Her experience in urban-scale atmospheric inversion supports the AGAGE effort to quantify GHGs, providing science-based evidence to inform policymakers on climate mitigation.