Four Year Doctoral Fellowship – Yixiu Wang
Yixiu Wang is a first-year doctoral student in Chemical and Biological Engineering under the supervision of Professor Bhushan Gopaluni and Assistant Professor Yankai Cao. He received his master’s degree in Vehicle Engineering/Battery Management System from Tongji University in 2019. His major research interests are advanced process control and the design and implementation of large-scale local and global optimization algorithms. Yixiu’s current research area is development of a lithium-ion battery degradation model to accurately estimate and predict power and capacity loss. He will use the model to formulate optimal charging and discharging strategies to optimize power system operation incorporating battery degradation. Yixiu is […]
Four Year Doctoral Fellowship – Samira Shirvani
Samira Shirvani received her BSc in Chemical Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology in 2012 and then completed an MSc in Chemical Engineering at the University of Tehran in 2015. After graduation, she found an opportunity to work as a research assistant at Iran Polymer and Petrochemical Institute (IPPI). During her three years of working at IPPI, Samira learnt a lot about catalyst synthesis, catalyst characterization, and catalytic processes. As she was working on different industrial and scientific projects, she was also publishing several peer reviewed journal papers. To learn more in depth knowledge about catalysis, she decided to pursue her academic […]
Four Year Doctoral Fellowship – Yu Pei
Yu Pei is a doctoral student and a Four Year Doctoral Fellowship recipient in the department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. She began her studies at UBC in July 2018 under the supervision of Prof. Elod Gyenge and Prof. David Wilkinson. Yu was raised in Beijing and completed a dual degree: a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering and Technology and a Bachelor of Economics in Financial Engineering at Sichuan University in 2015. During her undergraduate years, Yu obtained an inventive patent on the design of an aluminum battery with simultaneous hydrogen evolution. Fascinated by cutting edge approaches for renewable energy, Yu found her […]