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Juner Zhu
Juner Zhu
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University
Executive Director & Co-Founder of the Center for Battery Sustainability
Penghao Zhang
Penghao Zhang
Postdoctoral Associate
Ph.D., Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, Washington Univerisyt in St. Louis, 2026
B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2018
Penghao is working on mechano-electrochemistry, cyclic voltammetry, and operando experimentation.
Junning Jiao
Junning Jiao
Ph.D. Candidate
MEng, National University of Singapore, 2022
B.S., Dalian University of Technology, 2021
Junning is our group's first PhD student. She literally works on everything related to chemo-mechanics.
Rongyue Lin
Ph.D. Candidate (co-advised by Professor Ruobing Bai)
M.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering & Scientific Computing, University of Pennsylvania, 2024
B.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 2022
Rongyue is working on AI-assisted computational modeling of 'a galaxy of particles' in battery electrodes. Her thesis topic is the starting point of Juner's ambitious plan for 'modeling the universe.'
Xinran Shi
Ph.D. Candidate
BEng in Automotive Engineering, Jilin University, 2024
Xinran is working on the sprial layered granular materials induced by transport processes. Her thesis topic is the starting point of Juner's ambitious plan for 'modeling Planet Earth.'
Xinyu Yang
Ph.D. Student
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University, 2025
Xinyu is developing a Battery Active Intelligence to maximize battery lifetime, which we call "BAIMAX!"
Kaile Peng
Ph.D. Student
M.Eng. in Vehicle Engineering, Chongqing University, 2024
B.Eng. in Vehicle Engineering, Chongqing University, 2021
Kaile is our group's data-driven modeling expert. Data drives him to work on various intersting problems related to batteries.
Gavin Lin
Gavin Lin
M.S. Student
B.S., University of Connecticut
Gavin is working on battery reliability and safety in extreme conditions and robotic environments.
Amogh Patil
Amogh Patil
Undergraduate Student (currently in an industrial co-op)
Electrical & Computer Engineering, Northeastern University
Amogh is passionated about power electronics, analog circuit design, and engery storage systems.
Alumni
Alumni
Wei Li, Research Scientiest, January 2023 - August 2026 (@ Northeastern), Feburary 2020 - August 2022 (@ MIT); Next: Apple
Royal C. Ihuaenyi, Postodoc, August 2023 - July 2026, Next: Apple
Le Sun, MS student research coordinator, January 2025 - May 2025; Battery engineer, June 2025 - December 2025
Noah Typrin, Undergraduate student, May 2025 - December 2025
Nathan Lim, Undergraduate student, PEAK Summit Awardee, September 2025 - December 2025
Jawad Ahmed, Master student, January 2025 - May 2025, Next: PhD student at Johns Hopkins University
Yonglin Huang, Postodoc, November 2024 - May 2025
Ruqing Fang, Postodoc, September 2023 - March 2025, Next: CATL
Georgios Vassilakis, Undergraduate student, AJC Scholar Co-Op, January - August. 2024, Next: PhD student at The University of Cambridge
Jihun Song, Postodoc, October 2023 - September 2024, Next: Hyundai Motor Group
Divya Priya Dhanraj, Master student, May - August 2024, Next: Portfolio Asset Manager at The AES Corporation
Ardra Sreedevi Ashok, Master student, December 2023 - August 2024, Next: Solar Design Engineer at Renewable America
Chaofan Chen, Undergraduate summer intern, July - September 2024, Next: Hong Kong University
Jiaqing Chen, Undergraduate student, September - Dec. 2023
Sophie Fallon, Undergraduate student, April - Dec. 2023, Next: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Dhiren Arvind Rathod, Master student, March - Dec. 2023
Junlin Luo, Visting undergraduate student, July. 2023 - Sept 2023, Next: PhD student at Stanford
Zonghui Li, Master student, Dec. 2022 - May 2023, Next: AESC
Paul Van Trotsenburg, Master student, Oct. 2022 - May 2023, Next: Van Dyk Recycling Solutions
Gerrit Ipers, Visiting Master Student at MIT from RWTH Aachen University, June - Dec. 2022, Next: RWTH Aachen, Northvolt
Avtar Singh, Postdoctoral Associate at MIT, Nov. 2021 - Aug. 2022. Next: NREL
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. Next: PhD student 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. Next: Senior Consultant at Roland Berger
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