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Research Staff
Postdoctoral Researchers
Paige Beck
Graduate Student Research Assistant
Paige is a 1st-year Ph.D. student in the mechanical engineering department at UC Berkeley. Her current work focuses on the integration of carbon-capture technology with a carbon dioxide methanation process and the development of electrocaloric cooling materials. Her research interests include energy storage and decarbonization.
Yun (Zoe) Yang
Graduate Student Research Assistant
Yun Chi, also going by Zoe, is a PhD student in the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Berkeley. Zoey is co-advised by the Thermal Energy Group and Nano/Energy Lab. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in 2023. At Purdue, she worked on modeling air water harvesting least work advised by Prof. Warsinger, and boiling with special surface treatment co-advised by Prof. Marconnet and Prof. Weibel. Currently, she is working on the thermal switch and phase change material with the goal to improve energy storage system of buildings.
Buyi Zhang
Graduate Student Research Assistant
Buyi is working on thermal management during the battery manufacturing process and cycling/fast charge. He is interested in battery modeling and the drying process in the roll-to-roll manufacturing of batteries and fuel cells.
Undergraduate Interns:
2024
Cy Razak Khaldi
Faye Liu
2023
Sebastian Haney
Kolby Gameros
Daniel Hunter Hawthorne
Faye Liu
2022
Daniel Hunter Hawthorne
Jia Mingxin
Clément Messeri
Hanxiang Wu
Rushabh Sailendra Shah
Yuan Zhu
2021
Joseph Benedetti
Ethan Lee
Clément Messeri
Rushabh Shah
High School Interns:
2024
Miranda Liu
Ojas Rokade
2023
Sammy Ali
Miranda Liu
Ojas Rokade
2021
Aansh Devpura
Tavleen Kaur
Jessica Liu
Rupal Nimaiyar
Shreya Revanur
Postdocs:
Justin P. Freedman, Staff Product Engineer at Lam Research (LinkedIn)
Jonathan Lau, Battery Scientist at QuantumScape (LinkedIn)
Fuduo Ma, Materials Scientist at Avery Dennison (LinkedIn)
Dalia Martinez Escobar, Junior Research Specialist at University of California, Merced (LinkedIn)
Mauricio Solis de La Fuente, R&D Specialist at Universitat Jaume I, Spain (LinkedIn)
Hao Wang, Data Scientist at Swish Analytics (LinkedIn)
Peiyuan Yu, Assistant Professor at SUSTech, China (ResearchGate)
Bei Fan, Assistant Professor at Michigan State University (LinkedIn)
Zhi Huang, Assistant Professor at Wuhan University, China (ResearchGate)
Mahmoud Elzouka, Packaging Thermal Engineer at Intel Corporation (LinkedIn)
Akanksha Menon, Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech (LinkedIn)
Lin Yang, Assistant Professor at Peking University, China (LinkedIn)
Qiye Zheng, Assistant Professor at HKUST, China (LinkedIn)
Graduate Students:
Others:
Charles Geffroy, Sales Engineer at Tesla (LinkedIn)
Iwan Hächler, Doctoral Student at ETH Zürich (LinkedIn)