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Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator
B.S. Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley 2013, (With Clayton Radke)
Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford 2018, (With Yi Cui)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Intelligence Community, Stanford 2020, (With Bob Sinclair & Yi Cui)
Yuzhang Li is an Associate Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UCLA. He received his bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University. The long-term goal of the Li group@UCLA is to invent new tools and materials that address important challenges in sustainability and health. For example, we are leading efforts to leverage the powerful cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) tool to address grand challenges in sustainability. These efforts have led to significant breakthroughs in our understanding of batteries (Science 358, 506, 2017; Science 375, 66, 2022) and electrocatalysts (Nature Energy 8, 138, 2023), which represent important clean energy technologies necessary for securing energy resilience and security. New insights then inform parallel efforts in materials innovations (Nature 620, 86, 2023; Nature Energy 10, 502, 2025) that will enable transformative technologies. Yuzhang’s research has been highlighted by news media including Forbes, Popular Mechanics, and ABC7 Bay Area, while also being recognized with several awards, including the Packard Fellowship, Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, Forbes 30 Under 30, and young investigator awards from the NSF, DOE, NIH, DOD, ACS, and ECS.
Videos: Yuzhang's Ph.D. Defense; Yuzhang's Advice for Grad Applications
Postdocs
Postdocs
Jinyoung Kim
wlsdud237@g.ucla.edu
Tian-Yu Wang
tianyuwang24@g.ucla.edu
Hayoung Park
hayoungpark23@g.ucla.edu
Min-Ho Kim
Lab Safety Officer
minhokim97@g.ucla.edu
Graduate Students
Graduate Students
Bo Liu
Communication Officer
boliu96@g.ucla.edu
Jiayi Yu
Data Management Officer
jiayiyu716@g.ucla.edu
Kaiyan Liang
Financial Officer
liangkaiyan15@ucla.edu
Keyue Liang
Communications Officer
kyliang@g.ucla.edu
Dingyi Zhao
Lab Safety Officer
dzhao924@ucla.edu
Kaixi Chen
Inventory Officer
kchen403@g.ucla.edu
Haoyu Li
haoyuli25@g.ucla.edu
Minjee Kim
minjeekim320@g.ucla.edu
Donghoon Lee
dhoonygo@ucla.edu
Vanessa Cho
vanessacho@ucla.edu
Yi Pin Chan
ypcc63@g.ucla.edu
Dingyi Li
lidingyi08@g.ucla.edu
Undergraduate Students
Undergraduate Students
Nicholas Holmon
nomloh@g.ucla.edu
Jennie Gao
jenniegao@g.ucla.edu
Sophia Li
sophiali26@g.ucla.edu
Alumni
Alumni
Priyen Shah
(MS'25)
Next Position: Entrepreneur
Haoyang Wu
(MS'25)
Next Position: PhD student, University of Chicago
Chongzhen Wang
(PhD'25)
Next Position: Senior Battery Scientist, CATL
Jin Koo Kim
(Postdoc'25)
Next Position: Senior Research Engineer, LG Energy Solution
Katelyn Lyle
(BS'25)
Next Position: PhD Student, Princeton University
Julie Park
(BS'25)
Next Position: Metrology Process Engineer, TSMC
Xin Chen
(BS'25)
Next Position: PhD Student, Stanford University
Richik Haldar (BS'25)
Next Position: PhD Student, UC Berkeley
Zhangdi Xie (MS'24)
Next Position: PhD Student, Imperial College London
Kin Lung See Tho (MS'24)
Next Position: Chemistry PhD Student, University of Illinois Chicago
Xinyue Zhang (MS'23)
Next Position: Sinopec
Srishti Mittal (MS'23)
Next Position: Battery Algorithm Engineer, Aptiv
Po-Hung Chen (MS'23)
Next Position: Battery Engineer, Feon Energy
Aki Takahashi (BS'23)
Next Position: MSE PhD Student, Stanford University
Matt Margason (BS'23)
Next Position: Battery Test Engineer, General Motors
Grace Vasiknanonte (MS'22)
Next Position: Lucid Motors
Elizabeth Zhang (BS'22)
Next Position: MSE PhD Student, Stanford University
Brandan Taing (BS'22)
Next Position: Associate Battery Engineer, Lyten Inc.
Yungunn Ko (MS'22)
Next Position: Battery Algorithm Engineer, Proterra
Sunny Nandi (Fulbright Fellow 2021-2022)
Next Position: PhD Candidate, Tezpur University
Nirmit Deshpande (Visiting Scholar 2020-2021)
Next Position: Researcher at DLR, Germany Aerospace Research Center
Group Awards
Group Awards
2025
2025
CESASC Scholarship (Bo Liu, PhD '26)
ACS & EC Graduate Student Award (Bo Liu, PhD '26)
UCLA Dissertation Year Award (Jiayi Yu, PhD '26)
2025 ECS Battery Division Student Research Award sponsored by Mercedes-Benz (Xintong Yuan, PhD '25)
4th Year Symposium Department Award (Jiayi Yu, PhD '26)
Miller Postdoctoral Fellowship (Xintong Yuan, PhD '25, Declined)
Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship (Xintong Yuan, PhD '25)
Schmidt Science Fellowship (Xintong Yuan, PhD '25)
NSF GRFP Fellowship (Katelyn Lyle, BS '25)
2024
2024
ECS Travel Grant (Xintong Yuan, PhD '25)
AIChE Women in Chemical Engineering Travel Award (Xintong Yuan, PhD '25)
UCLA Undergraduate Research Scholars Program (Richik Haldar, BS '25)
The National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Postdoctoral Fellowship (Hayoung Park, Postdoc)
UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship (Bo Liu, PhD '26)
4th Year Symposium Department Award (Xintong Yuan, PhD '25)
Rudnick-Abelmann Scholarship (Xin Chen, BS '25)
Internet Research Initiative Award (Nicholas Holmon, BS '26)
Canada Graduate Scholarship (Justin Kim, PhD '28)
2024 CESASC Scholarship (Xintong Yuan, PhD '25)
Spring 2024 MRS Graduate Student Gold Award (Xintong Yuan, PhD '25)
DOE SULI Summer Internship (Richik Haldar, BS '25, Katelyn Lyle, BS '25)
2023
2023
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (Aki Takahashi, BS '23)
ACS I&EC Graduate Student Award (Xintong Yuan, PhD '25)
UCLA Graduate Symposium Best Poster Award (Bo Liu, PhD '26)
UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship (Xintong Yuan, PhD '25)
UCLA Undergraduate Research Scholars Program (Richik Haldar, BS '25, Julie Park, BS '25)
2022
2022
Clare Boothe Luce Scholars Program (Katelyn Lyle, BS '25)
UCLA Undergraduate Research Scholars Program (Aki Takahashi BS '23)
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (Elizabeth Zhang, BS '22)
DOE SULI Summer Internship (Aki Takahashi, BS '23)
2021
2021
1st Place Prize AIChE Annual Student Conference, Mat. Sci. Division (Elizabeth Zhang, BS '22)
UCLA Undergraduate Research Scholars Program (Elizabeth Zhang BS '22, Brandan Taing BS '22, Aki Takahashi BS '23)
Caltech WAVE Fellow (Elizabeth Zhang, BS '22)
DOE SULI Summer Internship (Brandan Taing, BS '22)
Tau Beta Pi Scholarship (Brandan Taing, BS '22)
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