People at LESC
Unjong Lee
Faculty Assistant (2014-2018)
Dr. Jean-Marie Doux
Postdoctoral Fellow (2018-2021)
Jean-Marie is now working as a research engineer at SAFT.
Dr. Min-cheol Kim
Postdoctoral Fellow (2018-2021)
Min-cheol is now an assistant professor at Pusan National University.
Dr. Enyue Zhao
Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2020)
Enyue is now an associate professor at Neutron Science Platform, Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory (Dongguan, China).
Dr. Yoon-Gyo Cho
Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2020)
Yoon-Gyo is now working at LG Energy Solutions.
Dr. Abhik Banerjee
Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2020)
Abhik is now the director of battery division at Research Institute of Sustainable Energy (RISE) in India.
Dr. Dijo Damien
Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2020)
Dijo is now a postdoctoral fellow under Fulbright fellowship in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne.
Dr. Xuefeng Wang
Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2019)
Xuefeng is now an associate professor at Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Marco Olguin
Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2019)
Marco is now a computational scientist at University of Southern California.
Dr. Ju-hsiang (Shawn) Cheng
Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2018)
Shawn is currently a research scientist at E-One Moli Energy Corp.
Dr. Thomas Brenner
Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2018)
Tom is a post-doc at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Dr. Cyrus Rustomji
Graduate Student in LESC, co-supervised by Prof. Sungho Jin (2013-2015)
Postdoctoral Fellow (2015-2017)
Cyrus is the co-founder & chief executive officer at South 8 Technologies, INC.
Dr. Mahsa Sina
Postdoctoral Fellow (2014-2017)
Mahsa is now a TEM scientist at Intel Corporation.
Dr. Sunny Hy
Postdoctoral Fellow (2015-2016)
Sunny is now the manager of cell materials engineering at Tesla, Inc.
Dr. Young-Sang Yu
Postdoctoral Fellow (2013-2014)
Young-Sang is a research scientist at LBNL at Advanced Light Source, Berkeley.
Dr. Tom Yersak
Postdoctoral Fellow (2013-2014)
Tom is currently a senior researcher at General Motors.
Dr. Dhamadaran Santhanegopalan
Postdoctoral Fellow (2011-2014)
Dhams is now an associate professor and DST Ramanujan Fellow at Amrita Center for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine.
Dr. Kyler Carroll
Postdoc/Assistant Project Scientist (2010 – 2013)
Kyler is currently working at Rivian.
Dr. Daniel Gostovic
Postdoctoral Fellow (2009 – 2010)
Daniel is currently an account manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Dr. Jonathan Scharf
Graduate Student in LESC (2018-2021)
Jonathan is currently a senior electrode engineer at Tesla.
Dr. Hayley Hirsh
Graduate Student in LESC (2016-2021)
Hayley is currently working at Exponent.
Dr. Hyeseung (Haelie) Chung
Graduate Student in LESC (2015-2020)
Haelie is currently working at QuantumScape.
Dr. Dan Davies
Graduate Student in LESC (2015-2020)
Dan is currently working at Tesla, Inc.
Dr. Yangyuchen Yang
Graduate Student in LESC (2015-2020)
Dr. Chengcheng Fang
Graduate Student in LESC (2015-2019)
Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2020)
Chengcheng is currently an assistant professor at Michigan State University.
Dr. Thomas Wynn
Graduate Student in LESC (2015-2020)
Postdoctoral Fellow (2020)
Tom is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory).
Dr. Pritesh Parikh
Graduate Student in LESC (2014-2019)
Pritesh is currently a scientist at Nanolab Technologies.
Dr. Han Nguyen
Undergraduate Student in LESC (2012-2014)
Graduate Student in LESC (2014-2019)
Han is currently working at Enovix Corporation.
Dr. Shen Wang
Graduate Student in LESC (2013-2018)
Postdoctoral Fellow (2018-2019)
Shen is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at UCSD.
Dr. Andrew Ulvestad
Graduate Student in LESC, co-supervised by Prof. Oleg Shpryko (2012-2015)
Andrew is currently a senior cell research engineer at Tesla, Inc.
Dr. Michael Verde
Graduate Student in LESC (2010-2015)
Postdoctoral Fellow (2015-2017)
Mike is a research scientist at Trojan Battery Company.
Dr. Danna Qian
Graduate Student in LESC (2010-2015)
Postdoctoral Fellow (2015-2016)
Danna is now a senior engineer at Tesla, Inc.
Dr. Jungwoo Lee
Graduate Student in LESC (2014-2018)
Jungwoo is the co-founder & chief technology officer at South 8 Technologies, Inc.
Dr. Joon Kyo Seo
Graduate Student in LESC (2013-2017)
Joon is currently a scientist at X‐ray characterization of materials at LG Chem R&D.
Dr. Judith Alvarado
Graduat Student in LESC (2013-2017)
Judith is currently a scientist at Sila Nanotechnologies Inc.
Dr. Chuze Ma
Graduate Student in LESC (2012-2017)
Chuze is currently a lead scientist at Wildcat Discovery Technologies.
Dr. Hyojung Chloe Yoon
Graduate Student in LESC (2011-2016)
Chloe is currently a team leader for new battery chemistry in LG Chem.
Dr. Ziying Wang
Graduate Student in LESC (2011-2016)
Ziying is currently a senior research engineer at Tesla, Inc.
Dr. JaeWook Shin
Graduate Student in LESC (2011-2016)
Jae is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
Dr. Haodong Liu
Graduate Student in LESC (2011-2016)
Haodong is currently a Project Scientist at UCSD.
Dr. Hyung-Man Cho
Graduate Student (2011-2015)
Hyung-Man (Josh) is currently a battery scientist at LG Chem Ltd.
Dr. Jing Xu
Graduate Student (2011-2014)
Jing is currently working at QuantumScape.
Dr. Daniel (Dae Hoe) Lee
Graduate Student (2009-2013)
Daniel is currently a cell design engineer at Northvolt.
Dr. Bo Xu
Graduate Student (2007-2012)
Bo is currently a data scientist at Unity Technologies.
Dr. Chris Fell
Graduate Student (2008-2012)
Chris is currently a staff engineer in battery cell development at Tesla, Inc.
Dr. Ming-Che (Tim) Yang
Graduate Student (2008-2012).
Ming-Che is now an independent photographer.
Carlos Mejia
Undergraduate Student (2017-2020) and Graduate Student (2020-2021) in LESC
Carlos is currently working at Tesla.
Matthew Mayer
Graduate student (2019-2021)
Matt is currently a consultant at J&J.
Yihui Zhang
Graduate student (2017-2019)
Yihui is currently pursuing her PhD at University of Pennsylvania.
Oeystein Fjeldberg
Oeystein graduated November of 2019 and is currently working as an Electrochemistry Testing Engineer at Opus 12.
Macwin Savio D’Souza
Macwin graduated August of 2019 and is currently working at QuantumScape.
Wilton Woo
Wilton graduated June of 2018 and is currently a technical engineer at MTI Corporation.
Christopher Kompella
Chris graduated March of 2017 and is currently a battery research engineer at American Lithium Energy.
Riley Yaylian
Riley graduated September of 2015 and is currently a staff hardware engineer at Dexcom.
Alex MacRae
Alex graduated June of 2015 and is currently the director at Visa.
Chandler Miller
Chandler graduated March of 2015 and is currently a program manager in Electricity Markets and Policy at Berkeley Lab.
Aoran Xu
Aoran graduated March of 2014 and is currently working at Illumina, Inc.
Octavio Salazar
Salazar is currently a design engineer in New Technology Group at Intel Corporation.
Chang Liu
Chang graduated December of 2013 and is currently a writing systems engineer at HP, Inc.
Thomas McGilvray
Thomas graduated June of 2012 and is currently a design engineering manager at Oasis Materials Company LP.
Di Feng
Di is currently pursing a Master degree in Enterprise Risk Management at Columbia University.
Susie Park
Sabrina Richardson
Sabrina is currently pursing a Master degree in Chemical Engineering at UC San Diego.
Katya Sablina
Katya is currently pursing a Master degree at Cornell University.
Miguel Ceja
Miguel graduated with a bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering with a focus in Li metal battery fabrication and characterization in Prof. Meng’s lab.
Ricky Huang
Ricky graduated with a bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering with a focus in cathode material synthesis in Prof. Meng’s lab.
Osman Trieu
Osman is currently a materials engineer at General Atomics.
Amanda Cabreros
Amanda is currently working as a process engineering Intern at Genentech.
Gautam Suresh
Gautam is currently pursuing a Master degree at University of Pennsylvania
Yongbai (Josh) Gong
Josh is currently a DFM engineer at Keysight Technologies.
Jessie Lin
Jessie is currently a product engineer at Texas Instruments.
Moses Kodur
Moses is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at UC San Diego.
Zihan Huang
Zihan is currently a Ph.D. condidate at University of Notre Dame.
Rohan Rajeev
Rohan is currently a design release engineer at General Motors.
Taylor M Uekert
Taylor is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at Cambridge University.
Brian P Shahbazian
Brian obtained a Master degree at University of Michigan.
Shawn Chen
Shawn is currently a NRC postdoc at National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Michael Mullins-Jensen
Michael obtained Ph.D. degree from MIT.
Toru Hatsukade
Toru is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Energy Conversion and Storage Group in Argonne National Laboratory.
Raziel Acosta
Raziel is currently a manufacturing technician IV at Gilead Sciences.
Michael Chen
Michael is currently pursing a PhD at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
Derek Lau
Derek is currently a research fellow at National Energy Technology Laboratory.
James Somerville
James is currently a battery materials engineer at Apple, Inc.
Michael Tang
Michael is currently a Ph.D. Student at Stanford University.