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Insights driven materials design enabling high performance batteries

Please join us for J. Kian Pu’s Ph.D. defense on Wednesday, August 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM EST in GGB 2540, Grand Conference Room or via Zoom!
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Scale: Making Sense of Complex Systems from Infrastructure to Foundation Models

Please join us for Alex Wadell’s Ph.D. defense on Thursday, August 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM EST in 4231 Lurie Engineering Center or via Zoom!
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Physics-Consistent Multiscale Modeling of All-Solid-State Batteries

Archie Yao will defend his thesis on Aug 5th 2025 from 10am to 12pm EST.
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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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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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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.

Anoushka Bhutani received 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.

Archie, Victor and Venkat won Robert Caddell Memorial Award for Research

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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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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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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.

Exciting work by Matthew Guttenberg and Alex Wadell analyzing the 500-mile journey of Tesla’s Semi-Truck across California! Using InceptEV’s high-fidelity environmental and battery model, they could closely match Tesla’s reported state of charge throughout the trip.

Congratulations to Shashank Sripad for being named in Forbes’s 30 under 30: Energy!

On the discharge mechanism in Li-CFx batteries

Please join us for Venkatesh Krishnamurthy’s Ph.D. defense on October 26th, 2022, from 4 to 5:30 pm EST in Scott Hall 5002 or via Zoom!
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Clio made it into Popular Science! An AI called Dragonfly is helping design faster-charging batteries.

See How robots and AI are helping develop better batteries featuring Adarsh (Ady) Dave’s research on Autonomous optimization of non-aqueous Li-ion battery electrolytes via robotic experimentation and machine learning coupling!

Automated Design and Discovery of Liquid Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion Batteries

Please join us for Adarsh (Ady) Dave’s Ph.D. defense on September 20, 2022, from 1 to 4:00 pm EST in Scott Hall 5002 or via Zoom on the “Automated Design and Discovery of Liquid Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion Batteries”
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Congratulations to Celia Kelly, Hongyi Lin, Ziqi Wang and Archie Mingze Yao for passing their Qualifying Exams!

Atomistic Modeling and Machine Learning Methods for Investigating Electrochemical Systems

Please join us for Holden Parks’s Ph.D. defense on August 5th, 2022, from 2 to 5:00 pm EST via Zoom on the “Atomistic Modeling and Machine Learning Methods for Investigating Electrochemical Systems”
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Solid Interfaces in Lithium Ion Batteries

Please join us for Victor Venturi’s Ph.D. defense on July 15th, 2022, from 3 pm to 5 pm EST via Zoom on the “Solid Interfaces in Lithium Ion Batteries”
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Techno-Economics of Battery Electric Mobility & Energy Storage Systems

Please join us for Shashank Sripad’s Ph.D. defense on July 15th, 2022, from 11 am to 1 pm ET via Zoom on the “Techno-Economics of Battery Electric Mobility & Energy Storage Systems”
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Congratulations to Dr. Rachel Kurchin, who will be starting as an Assistant Research Professor in the CMU MSE Department in September. We’ll miss you on the third floor of Wean Hall, and will see you on…the fourth floor of Wean Hall!

Congratulations to Alex Wadell for being selected as a CMU 2022-2023 Interdisciplinary Transportation Engineering, Economics, and Policy Ph.D. Fellow!

Applications of Complexity Science in Modeling Electric Vehicles and Planning Charging Infrastructure

Please join us for Matthew Guttenberg’s Ph.D. defense on April 27th, 2022, from 1 to 3 pm EST via Zoom on the “Applications of Complexity Science in Modeling Electric Vehicles and Planning Charging Infrastructure”
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Simulation-Informed Design of Liquid Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries

Please join us for Yumin Zhang’s Ph.D. defense on March 10th, 2022, from 3 to 5 pm EST via Zoom on the “Simulation-Informed Design of Liquid Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries”
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Tune into The Allplane Podcast to hear Professor Venkat Viswanathan take on electrifying the aviation industry:

Congratulations to J. Kian Pu, Lydia Tsiverioti and Alex Wadell for passing their Qualifying Exams!

Improvements in rechargeable batteries are enabling electric urban air mobility aircraft, with the eventual goal of decarbonizing urban transportation. Read more about our work in CMU’s Research on eVTOL aircraft takes flight or check out our paper The promise of energy-efficient battery-powered urban aircraft published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Tune into Nature Briefing to hear Professor Venkat Viswanathan discuss the challenges and opportunities of battery-powered flight:

Check out the December issue of Carnegie Mellon Engineering, featuring our work on An Atomic Look at Lithium-Rich Batteries and AI-Fueled Battereries!

Congrats to Gregory Houchins for being selected as a Breakthrough Energy Fellow and launching CHEMent to electrochemically produce cement!

Congrats to Matt Guttenberg and Victor Venturi for their successful research proposals! Matt is doing his PhD thesis on complexity science for electric vehicle modeling and infrastructure optimization while Victor is doing his PhD thesis on solid-solid interfaces in lithium-ion batteries. Both are on track to defend their thesis by the end of the Spring 2022 semester.

Shashank and Dillip’s analysis of iron-air batteries was featured in The Electric!

Next-Generation Battery Pioneer Sees Breakthroughs Coming

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Summer 2021 Graduating Class

Congratulations to Zeeshan Ahmad, Gregory Houchins, Dilip Krishnamurthy, and Olga Vinogradova for completing their PhDs!
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Hongyi Lin’s analysis on Tesla’s 4680 calendar aging problem was quoted by Steve LeVine in the Electric: The Bad News That Elon Musk Shared and Everybody Missed!

Check out Dr. Rachel Kurchin’s talk on Chemellia, an ML ecosystem for Chemistry and Material Science in Julia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la9asuZzVjU

Robust Computational Design of Catalysts for Hydrogen Fuel Cells

Please join us for Olga Vinogradova’s Ph.D. defense on August 2nd, 2021, at 2pm EST via Zoom on the “Robust Computational Design of Catalysts for Hydrogen Fuel Cells”.
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Simulation-Informed Design of Electrolytes for Lithium Metal Batteries

Yumin Zhang will be presenting “Electrolyte Magic” at the Ainoics Fortnightly tomorrow at 8 PM EST.
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Mark your calendars! Prof. Venkat Viswanathan will be chairing the Gordon Research Conference on Batteries in February 2022.

Keith Phuthi and Matthew Guttenberg have been using Neocortex, a groundbreaking AI supercomputer, to model atomistic potential energy surfaces. Learn more in HPCWire: Wafer-Scale-Engine Technology Accelerates Machine Learning, HPC.

Congratulations to Dr. Rachel Kurchin for joining the The Journal of Open Source Software Editorial Board!

Design of Electrode-Electrolyte Assemblies for Energy Conversion and Storage Devices

Please join us for Dilip Krishnamurthy’s Ph.D. defense on July 19th, 2021, from 2 to 4:30 pm EST via Zoom on the “Design of Electrode-Electrolyte Assemblies for Energy Conversion and Storage Devices”
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Congratulations to Matt Guttenberg for being selected as a Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship Innovation Fellow, in recognition of his work on INCEPTS!

The submission led by Prof. Venkat Viswanathan, was one of the 8 winners of the Climate Change Challenge put out by Chamath Palihapitiya. The submission involved providing a framework around investing in technologies that can accelerate the transition to net-zero emissions!