Venkat Viswanathan's Electrochemical Energy Group at the University of Michigan
Vision: Invent and Optimize Materials, Processes and Devices to Accelerate the Transition to Sustainable Transportation, Aviation, Chemicals and Fuels.
Research
Research Areas
Our group’s research areas span a wide and always-evolving range, but all build on core expertise in materials science, electrochemistry, and computational modeling. Some representative research areas are listed here.
Research Methods
Our group is primarily computational/theoretical, with a small but growing experimental presence in collaboration with Prof. Jay Whitacre, focused on integrating machine learning approaches with automated experimentation. We have a strong commitment to using and contributing to open-source software development efforts. We’re always learning more, but the current methods/tools most commonly used in the group are summarized here.
Research Thrusts
We work toward improving performance, cost, and safety of virtually every kind of electrochemical system at every scale, from the atomic to the national. Some of the goals and vision that drive our research are listed here.
People
PI
Venkat Viswanathan
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Contact: venkvis [at] umich [dot] edu
Postdoctoral Researchers
Roby Gauthier
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Mechanical Engineering
Contact: robyg [at] andrew [dot] cmu [dot] com
Andrew B. Li
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Aerospace Engineering
Contact: andreli [at] umich [dot] edu
Doctoral Students
Hancheng Zhao
Mechanical Engineering
Contact: hancheng2000 [at] cmu [dot] edu
Hongyi Lin
Mechanical Engineering
Contact: hongyili [at] andrew [dot] cmu [dot] edu
Jiankun (Kian) Pu
Mechanical Engineering
Contact: jiankunp [at] andrew [dot] cmu [dot] edu
Victor Azumah
Mechanical Engineering
Contact: vazumah [at] andrew [dot] cmu [dot] com
Celia Kelly
Mechanical Engineering
Contact: cskelly [at] andrew [dot] cmu [dot] edu
Ziqi Wang
Mechanical Engineering
Contact: ziqiwang [at] andrew [dot] cmu [dot] edu
Postdoc Alumni
Dong Zhang
Assitant Professor, University of Oklahoma
Abhishek Khetan
Junior Professor at RWTH Aachen University
Hasnain Hafiz
Postdoctoral Research Associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Zijian Hong
Faculty at Zhejiang University
Rachel Kurchin
Research faculty in CMU MSE
Valentin Sulzer
Co-Founder and CEO at Ionworks
Pinwen Guan
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Mechanical Engineering
Lei Zhang
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Mechanical Engineering
Emil Annevelink
Co-Founder & CEO at Physics Inverted Materials
Matt Guttenberg
founder, INCEPTS
PhD Alumni
Oleg Sapunkov
Mechanical Engineer, U.S. Army CCDC GVSC
Vikram Pande
Senior Research Engineer at Tesla
Zeeshan Ahmad
Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Chicago
Gregory Houchins
Co-Founder of chement
Dilip Krishnamurthy
Senior Systems Software Engineer, NVIDIA
Olga Vinogradova
Postdoctoral Researcher at Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Yumin Zhang
AI4S Scientist at SES AI
Anirudh Mohan
Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton Andlinger Center
Shashank Sripad
Co-Founder of And Battery Aero
Victor Venturi
Postdoctoral Researcher at MIT
Holden Parks
Software Developer, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Venkatesh Krishnamurthy
Senior Reliability Engineer at Tesla
Adarsh (Ady) Dave
Stratus Materials
Varun Shankar
Co-Founder at Physics Inverted Materials
Alec Bills
Mechanical Engineering
Lance Kavalsky
Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Shang Zhu
AI Researcher at Together AI
Mohammad Babar
General Motors
Master's Alumni
Abhinav Misalkar
Cell Engineer at Tesla
Andrew Sams
Experienced Consultant, West Monroe Partners
Colin Grossman-Cross
Integration and Test Engineer, Astrobiotic
Lingyan Zhao
PhD student at University of Pittsburgh
Mikael Matossian
Energy Sector Senior Associate at Tetra Tech
Vaidish Sumaria
PhD student at UCLA
Siddharth Deshpande
PhD Student at Purdue University
Ying Fang
PhD Student at University of Pittsburgh
Ying Yuan
PhD student at UC San Diego
Yoolhee Kim
Data Scientist at Citrine Informatics
Yuanyi (Yara) Huang
Chemical Engineering
Nirmit Deshpande
EST&P
Former Undergraduate Students
Andrew Lee
PhD student at Northwestern University
Siying Li
PhD student at UC Berkeley
Community
Our group is involved in several efforts to spur community-building and research dissemination efforts.
Prof. Viswanathan runs the Battery Modeling Webinar Series (BMWS). Find more information here.
News
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August 10, 2024
Atomic and Geometric Modifications for High Performance Li-ion Electrodes
Please join us for Mohammad Babar’s Ph.D. defense on Friday, August 16, 2024 at 9:00 AM EST in FXB-1044 or via Zoom!
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July 27, 2024
Computational Phase Diagrams of Materials under Experimentally Challenging Conditions
Please join us for Mgcini Keith Phuthi’s Ph.D. defense on Friday, August 2, 2024 at 2:00 PM EST in FXB-1044 or via Zoom!
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May 24, 2024
Alex Wadell, Amal S Sebastian, Ziqi Wang, Anoushka Bhutani, Yilin Zhuang and Changwen Xu (left to right) were at the ALCF INCITE Hackathon this week. For more information on our work building scientific foundation models for molecular discovery vist scifm.ai.
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May 10, 2024
Anoushka Bhutani recieved the poster prize at MICDE’s Scientific Foundation conference for work on MIST (Molecular Insight SMILES Transformer). This work was done in collaboration with Alex Wadell and Shang Zhu. For more information on this research thread visit the SciFM website.
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August 09, 2023
Battery Modeling to Enable Electric Aviation
Please join us for Alec Bills’s Ph.D. defense on Thursday, August 10, 2023 at 11:00 AM EST in Scott Hall 5002 or via Zoom!
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August 03, 2023
Differentiable Fluid Dynamics
Please join us for Varun Shankar’s Ph.D. defense on Thursday, August 10, 2023 at 1:00 PM EST in Scott Hall 5002 or via Zoom!
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April 05, 2023
Congratulations to Alex Wadell for being selected for the Meta Research PhD Fellowship program! Alex will be working to apply Scientific Machine Learning to develop battery models to address the challenges of AR/AV devices.
