Dr. Ping Liu is a Professor of Nanoengineering and the Director of the Sustainable Power and Energy Center at UCSD. Prior to joining the Jacobs School faculty, Professor Liu was a Program Director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E), where he initiated and managed research programs in energy storage for electric vehicles and thermal management technologies to improve building energy efficiency. He was the manager of the Energy Technology Department at HRL Laboratories (an industrial lab jointly owned by GM and Boeing) and was a research staff member with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Professor Liu received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Fudan University in China. He was a Distinguished Inventor in multiple years at HRL and won an R&D 100 award in 2009 for a battery technology developed at NREL.

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Ph.D. in Nanoengineering, UC San Diego

B.S. at Department of Chemistry, Xiamen University

Research Interests: Li-ion Batteries, Electrolyte, Li-ion Battery Separator

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Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Science & Technology of China

B.S. in Chemistry, Northeastern University

Research Interests: Solid-state Li-S batteries, Li metal anode

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Ph.D. in Nanoengineering, UC San Diego

M.S. in Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

B.S. in Chemistry, Peking University

Research Interests: Li sulfur batteries

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M.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering with a minor in Entrepreneurship and Management, Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests: Smart Separators

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B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Interests: Conversion reactions, Nanoporous metals

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B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology

Research Interests: Conversion Cathodes, Thick Electrodes

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B.S. Chemical Engineering, Oregon State University

Research Interests: Novel Battery Chemistries, Battery Electrolytes

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B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology

Research Interests: Fast-charge Anode, Electrolyte Analysis

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B.A. in Chemistry, Binghamton University

Research Interests: nanomaterials, interfacial analysis, sustainable energy production and storage, high-voltage electrolytes

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B.S. Physics at William and Mary

Research Interests: Solid state electrolytes, polymer electrolytes, Li metal batteries

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B.S. in Material Chemistry, Sun Yat-sen University

Research Interests: Nanoporous metals

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B.S. in Chemical Engineering at National Institute of Technology Calicut, India

Research Interests: Solid electrolytes

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B.S. at Department of Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University

Research Interests: Li-ion Batteries, all solid state Batteries

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Chemical Engineering, UC San Diego

Research Interests: anode development for Li ion batteries, Si thin-film electrodes, Li metal protective coating

Hridayanand Khemchandani

Education:

Chemical Engineering, UC San Diego

Research Interests: Lithium metal batteries, solid electrolyte interfaces, novel cathode materials

Isabelle Del Rios

Education:

Chemical Engineering, UC San Diego

Research Interests: Separators, Lithium metal protective coatings

Aidan Ross 

Education:

Chemical Engineering, UC San Diego

Research Interests: Li ion batteries

Aseel Almadani

Education:

Chemical Engineering, UC San Diego

Research Interests: Li ion batteries and novel cathode materials