People

Principal Investigator

Peng Bai

Peng Bai

Associate Professor

Postdoctoral Researcher

Tingting Yang

Tingting Yang

Na-ion cathode materials

Doctoral Students

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Ethan Boutelle

Ethan Boutelle

Na-ion and K-ion cathode materials

Maurice Efroza

Maurice Efroza

Kinetics of intercalation electrodes.

Rajeev Gopal

Rajeev Gopal

Critical electrochemical kinetics in ceramic solid electrolytes

Penghao Zhang

Penghao Zhang

Computation and simulation of electrolyte-electrode interfaces

Research Assistant

Arden Chen

Arden Chen

Green processing of battery materials and electrodes.

Undergraduate Students

Tori Tanouye

Alumni

PHD STUDENTS
  • Youngju Lee. Graduated in 2023. Now a Senior Scientist at SES AI Corp.
  • Bingyuan Ma. Graduated in 2023. Now a Senior Cell Materials Engineer at Tesla.
  • Shubham Agrawal. Graduated in 2022. Now a Battery Modeling Engineer at Ford.
MASTER STUDENTS
  • Poom Sittisomwong.
  • He Zhou, 09/2021-03/2023. Now enrolled in the PhD program at Virginia Tech.
  • Jiayi Wu, 03/2019-03/2020.
  • Longan Wu, 05/2019-03/2020.
  • Yuancheng Liu, 09/2019-01/2020.
  • Sikuang Wang, 09/2018-05/2020. Now enrolled in the data science master’s program at WashU.
  • Jinzhao Guo, 09/2017-06/2019. Now enrolled in the PhD program at Arizona State University.
  • Yongzhen Liu, 10/2017-02/2018.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
  • Jiayuan Ma, 09/2019-12/2019.
  • Nick Matteucci, 05/2019-03/2020. Now enrolled in the PhD program at MIT.
  • Bennett Schwartz, 01/2024-05/2025.
  • Jordyn Nydish, 09/2024-05/2025.
VISITING STUDENTS
  • Dem Ele III Santiago-Santiago, Universidad de Puerto Rico, 06/2021-08/2021
  • Ge Mu, Beijing Institute of Technology, 10/2019-10/2020.
  • Rochit Sinha, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, 05/2019-07/2019.
  • Amit Choudhary, IIT Delhi, 05/2019-07/2019.
  • Kei Ki, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 05/2019-08/2019.
  • Sri Savya Tanikella, IIT Gandhinagar, 06/2018-08/2018. Now enrolled in the PhD program at University of California Santa Barbara.
K12 STUDENTS
  • Winston Chen, 07/2018, 07/2019.
  • Adi Kondepudi, 07/2018, 07/2019.

Voices from Bai Group Members

Group Photos

2025
Group lunch on Feb 7, 2025
Group lunch on Feb. 7, 2025 to kick off to welcome Tingting and Arden. From left to right: Ethan, Penghao, Arden, Maurice, Peng, Tingting, and Rajeev.
2024
Group photo on Sept 6, 2024
Group photo for the new semester before Dr. Bai heads out to Stanford for his sabbatical visit. From left to right: Tori, Jordyn, Ethan, Penghao, Peng, Bennett, Richard, Maurice, and Rajeev.
2023
Congratulations to the graduates from Bai Group, May 14, 2023. From left to right: Rajeev, He, Bingyuan, Peng, Youngju, Poom, Penghao, and Ethan
2022
Group photo in front of the new KcKelvey Hall on April 27, 2022. From left to right: Bingyuan, Shubham, Ethan, Penghao, Peng, He, Youngju, Poom, and Rajeev
Group lunch at Mandarin House on April 20, 2022. From left to right: Penghao, Shubham, Youngju, Rajeev, Peng, Ethan, He, Poom, and Bingyuan
Screen shot of Zoom Group Meeting
Bai research group Zoom meeting on Jan 14, 2022, kicking off another challenging but surely brighter year. From left to right: Rajeev, Peng, Penghao, Ethan, He, Youngju, Bingyuan, Shubham, and Poom.
2021
Group lunch at Red Robin on June 9, 2021. From left to right: Poom, Rajeev, Shubham, Bingyuan, Dem, Youngju, and Peng
Group Zoom meeting on Mar 12, 2021.
2020
ai research group in the Missouri Botanical Garden on Oct 09, 2020. From left to right: Peng Bai, Bingyuan Ma, Ge Mu, Jiayi Wu, Youngju Lee, Rajeev Gopal, Poom Sittisomwong and Shubham Agrawal. This was a wonderful hybrid-mode group outing. Guess who “attended” with the help of Windows Paint  
2019
Bai group in front of the Brauer Hall on June 19, 2019. From left to right: Nick, Amit, Kei, Sikuang, Bingyuan, Youngju, Peng, Longan, Winston, Adi, Jinzhao, Shubham and Rochit.
Group lunch on September 10, 2019. From left to right: Youngju, Bingyuan, Peng, Shubham, Longan, Sikuang, and Jing.
2018
Group lunch on September 20, 2018. From left to right: Sikuang, Bingyuan, Youngju, Shubham, Jinzhao, and Peng.