Ekrem has coined the term “guerrilla research” and, along with his team, developed a unique energy commodities product portfolio alongside a new generation of metrics to define and measure productivity in his field. Signal-to-noise ratios, false positives/negatives replaced the number and frequency of publications. 

Prior to joining LCMC, Ekrem was a director at PIRA Energy Group and a visiting engineer at MIT working on computational fracture mechanics.