NSF CMMI supports our research on "CDS&E: Mechanics Informatics for Learning Constitutive Models: Theory, Computation, and Uncertainty Quantification"! 07/01/2025

Xinran passed the Qulification Exam and became a PhD Candidate. Congrats! 04/04/2025

Amin passed the Qulification Exam and became a PhD Candidate. Congrats! 04/01/2025

We farewelled Dr. Ruqing Fang to start his career in the battery industry! 03/20/2025

Our paper led by Dr. Jihun Song has been accepted by Energy & Environmental Science! 02/04/2025

Please check out our recent preprint on 'Mechanics Informatics'! 01/25/2025

We successfully co-organized the 3rd Battery Sustainability Workshop at MIT with the Bazant Group and the Braatz Group! 12/06/2024

We welcome Dr. Yonglin Huang to our team as a postdoc! Yonglin will greatly diversify our research with his excellence in battery manufacturing and material characterization. 11/15/2024

Our undergraduate researcher George Vassilakis is named one of the prestigious Huntington 100! 11/7/2024

Our project "EVEREMORE" led by Saint-Gobain has been selected by ARPA-E for funding through the CIRCULAR Program! 11/8/2024

Junning received the 2024 John and Katharine Cipolla Graduate Merit Award! 10/30/2024

Dr. Dong Zeng, Principal Research Scientist at FM Global delivered a great talk in our EV Power Seminar. 10/10/24

Postdoctoral research Dr. Jihun Song joined Hyundai Motor Group! Congrats! 10/01/2024

PhD student Xinran Shi joined our group. 08/26/24

Juner received the ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship. 08/20/2024

PhD student Rongyue Lin (co-advised by Prof. Ruobing Bai) joined our group. 08/19/2024

We launched a new research project with LG Energy Solution to develop electro-chemo-mechanical models for battery swelling. 08/15/2024

Dr. Saleh Nabi, Principal AI Researcher at Schneider Electric talked about physics-informed AI in our second EV Power Seminar. 08/08/24

Undergraduate student, Julian Halpern-Smith joined our group. He will work on battery pressure control. 08/06/24

Ruqing and Wei published our group’s first JMPS paper on solid-state batteries. 07/27/2024

Undergraduate student, Tyler Davidson joined our group. He will work on battery degradation study. 07/22/24

Visiting undergraduate student from Tsinghua University, Chaofan Chen joined our group. He will work on machine learning and its applications on batteries. 07/17/24

Dr. Kang Xu, Chief Scientist at SES AI Corporation, kicked off our group's first EV Power Seminar. 07/12/2024

Our group received the Ford URP Award for EV battery cell modeling research! 06/20/2024

The CBS Steering Committee Meeting was successfully held at MIT. 06/13/2024 

New paper "Rapid Simulation of Electro-Chemo-Mechanical Deformation of Li-ion Batteries Based On Porous Electrode Theory" is online in the Journal of Electrochemical Society. 05/28/2024

At the 245th ECS Meeting, Ruqing and Junning delivered an oral and two poster presentations on behalf of our group. 05/28/24

Royal won the best lightening talk award at NEW.Mech 2024! 05/24/24

Amin was selected to participate in the ARPA-E Student Summit! 05/22/24

New paper "Seeking the most informative design of test specimens for learning constitutive models" in EML is online. Congrats Royal for your first journal paper with the group! 05/21/24

Royal received a postdoc fellowship to participate in the Cell Symposium on EV 2024! 05/20/2024

Our new paper in Extreme Mech Letters, entitled "Microstructure-chemomechanics relations of polycrystalline cathodes in solid-state batteries", is online. 04/25/2024

Our group alumnus, Sophie Fallon, will continue her education through the Erasmus Mundus Master in Membrane Engineering program. Congrats, Sophie! 04/ 23/2024

Master student, Divya Priya Dhanraj joined us. She will work on a research project on batteries in low temperatures. 04/ 23/2024

Junning will start her summer internship at Tesla from May to the end of summer! 03/15/2024 

Invited by Prof. Ruobing Bai, we contributed to the Journal Club of iMechanica for February 2024, on the topic of the mechanics of solid-state batteries. Here is the link. 02/01/2024

Saint-Gobain colleagues visited us and discussed battery research with our whole group. We are very grateful for their gift fund to support our research! 1/25/2024

We start our new year by welcoming a new PhD student, Amin Kazem Ghamsari, to join our group to work on data-driven methods for electro-chemo-mechanics! 1/2/2024

Master's students, Ardra Sreedevi Ashok and  Mukul Bondade, joined our group for research projects on batteries. 12/8/2023

Our group successfully organized the 2nd Battery Sustainability Workshop on the Innovation Campus of Northeastern Univ. in Burlington! 12/6/2023

Northeastern junior student, George Vassilakis, joined our group as an AJC Merit Research Fellow! 11/3/2023

Our undergraduate student Nitin won the Northeastern PEAK Experience Base Camp Award! 10/24/2023

Junning passed her Oral Qualifying Exam today after an impressive presentation and a professional Q&A session. Congrats on becoming a PhD candidate! 10/18/2023

Dr. Jihun Song, joined our group as a Postdoctoral Associate! 10/02/2023

Pre-registration of the 2nd Battery Sustainability Workshop is now open! Click here to pre-register. 09/22/2023

Sophie Fallon started her research project with us. 09/22/2023

NEU undergraduate students, Vishhal Shashi Kumar and Jiaqing Chen, joined our group for research training. 09/16/2023

Junning passed her written qualifying exam! 09/15/2023

Junlin completed his 2-month visit in our group! During his visit, Junlin developed a method of using the concept of "joint entropy" to quantify the amount of information conveyed in a mechanical test. 9/15/2023

Dr. Ruqing Fang joined the group as a Postdoctoral Associate! 09/01/2023

Visiting Scholar, YongHwan Choi, is visiting our group from Hyundai Motor Company. 08/22/2023

Our paper on Phase-field DeepONet is published and online! This is Wei's second first-author paper in the prestigious journal CMAME. Congrats, Wei! 8/10/2023

We established a collabrative research with Electra Vehicles on EV batteries. 08/10/2023

Dr. Royal Ihuaenyi joined the group as a Postdoctoral Associate! 08/01/2023

Dr. Zhu co-founded the Center for Battery Sustainability with Profs. Martin Z. Bazant and Richard D. Braatz! We are now accepting industrial members.

Dr. Zhu is awarded the Haythornthwaite Foundation Research Initiation Grant by ASME Applied Mechanics Division. 

Dr. Wei Li will join Northeastern as an Associate Research Scientist, starting 01/01/2023!

Junning Jiao joined the group! She will be our first PhD student. 09/02/2022

Dr. Zhu officially joined Northeastern Univ. today! 08/22/2022