Team
P.I. | Postdoctoral Researchers | Students | Alumni
Juner Zhu
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University
Executive Director & Co-Founder of the MIT-NEU Center for Battery Sustainability
Wei Li
Associate Research Scientist
Postdoctoral Associate, MIT, 2019-2022
Ph.D., Tsinghua University, 2019
B.S., Hunan University, 2014
Wei has been working with Dr. Zhu since 2020 on a variety of topics covering Li-ion battery safety, data-driven modeling, Scientific Machine Learning, and Li-metal anode.
Junning Jiao
Ph.D. Student
MEng, National University of Singapore, 2022
B.S., Dalian University of Technology, 2021
Junning is working on the electro-chemo-mechanics of lithium plating.
Dhiren Arvind Rathod
Master student
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (Material Sciences), Northeastern Univ, expected 2023
B.Sc., Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell, 2019
Dhiren is developing a multi-signal experimental platform for battery health & safety monitoring.
Undergraduate trainees
Sophie Fallon
Chemical Engineering, Northeastern Univ.
Xinyu Yang
Mech + Industrial Eng, Northeastern Univ.
Nitinmanish Vallabhu
Mech + Industrial Eng, Northeastern Univ.
Ashnu Cassod
Mech + Industrial Eng, Northeastern Univ.
Blair Seo
Mech + Industrial Eng, Northeastern Univ.
Tyler Smiththro
Mech + Industrial Eng, Northeastern Univ.
Visiting scholars/students
Dhruv Jindal
B. Tech student in Production and Industrial Eng. IIT Delhi
Alumni
Zonghui Li, Master student, Dec. 2022 - May 2023
Paul Van Trotsenburg, Master student, Oct. 2022 - May 2023
Gerrit Ipers, Visiting Master Student at MIT from RWTH Aachen University, June - Dec. 2022, currently at RWTH Aachen
Avtar Singh, Postdoctoral Associate at MIT, Nov. 2021 - Aug. 2022. Currently a postdoctoral researcher at NREL
Chris Reynolds, Master student at MIT, Oct. 2019 - May 2022
Zhexin Pan, Visiting PhD Student at MIT from Tsinghua, Oct. 2019 - Sept. 2020
Tobias Sedlatschek, Visiting Master Student at MIT from RWTH Aachen University, Nov. 2019 - May 2020, finished M.S. thesis at MIT. Currently a PhD candidate at RWTH Aachen
Marco Miguel Koch, Visiting Master Student at MIT from RWTH Aachen University, Oct. 2018 - April 2019, finished M.S. thesis at MIT. Currently a Senior Consultant at Roland Berger