Team

Current Members

Postdoc Researcher

• Dr. Zifei Su — Modeling, control, and optimization of EV, connected and automated vehicles, and charging infrastracture

PhD Students

• Sheng Liu — Battery system design, modeling, control, and diagnostics
• Adry Lain — Second-life battery system design and applications, mobile charging system design

Undergraduate Researchers

• Jack Zimberg
• William Nicolas Benedict
• Matthew Conner Rowe
• Lily Rai Little
• Samuel Jinan El Maliki
• Ciel Voy

Alumni

Postdoctoral Alumni

• Maxavier D. Lamantia — Postdoctoral Researcher (Summer 2025)
• Cody Innis — Postdoctoral Researcher (Summer 2025)

PhD Alumni

• Qinghua Lin — PhD (Spring 2020) — Joined CTS Corp.
• Kuo Yang — PhD (Fall 2021) — Joined Southwest Research Institute
• Zifei Su — PhD (Summer 2024) — Postdoctoral Researcher, APECL at Tennessee Tech (since Fall 2024)
• Maxavier D. Lamantia — PhD (Spring 2025)
• Cody Innis — PhD (Spring 2025)
• Magdy Abdulmagued — PhD (Summer 2025) — Tenure-track Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin–River Falls

MS Alumni

• Brandon Childress — MS (Fall 2018)
• Dakota Strange — MS (Fall 2019)
• Devin Schafer — MS (Aug. 2021)
• Sachin Joshi — MS (Aug. 2021)
• Tyler Qualls — MS (Aug. 2021)
• Shuainan Yang — MS (May 2021)
• Yun Wu — MS (Summer 2022)
• Brandon Patel — MS (Fall 2022)
• Caleb Dunlap — MS (Fall 2024)
• Andrew Travis — MS (Dec. 2025)