I am an Assistant Professor in Columbia University Earth and Environmental Engineering, with affiliation in Electrical Engineering. I am a core faculty at Columbia Electrochemical Energy Center and Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy. My research interests include design and optimization of sustainable energy and power systems, integration of energy storage and other emerging decarbonization technologies, and modeling the impact of climate change in energy systems.

I obtained my PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Washington, Seattle, advised by Daniel Kirschen and Baosen Zhang. I did my Postdoc in MIT, hosted by Audun Botterud.

Curriculum Vitae

Updates

June 2026

Congratulations to Liudong Chen and Zhiyuan Fan for successfully defending their PhD theses! Both are continuing as postdoctoral researchers at Harvard University.

Liudong Chen after his PhD thesis defense Zhiyuan Fan after his PhD thesis defense
Left: Liudong Chen, Behavior Modeling and Analysis in Energy Systems. Right: Zhiyuan Fan, Strategic Climate Mitigation Decisions Across Policy Contexts.
May 2026

The group celebrated the end of the school year, and the graduation of Liudong Chen, Zhiyuan Fan, and Ruonan (Pina) Pi.

Group end-of-year picnic in the park
December 2024

Congratulations to Nik for successfully defending his thesis!

Nik Zheng after his PhD thesis defense
October 2024

Postdoc opening on process optimization for hydrogen and CO2 electrolyzer. Please apply here.

April 2024

Congratulations to Eliza Cohn for receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

October 2023

Honored to receive the Early Career Best Paper Award from INFORMS ENRE!

July 2023

My talk from RWTH Aachen provides a good overview of our work on energy storage.

July 2023

New research article published in Joule about market design for energy storage.

June 2023

Transferable energy storage bidder published in TPWRS.

April 2023

Honored to receive the Outstanding Young Investigator Award from IISE Energy Systems Division!

January 2023

Our SoC market model for energy storage published in the new TEMPR journal.

January 2023

Honored to receive the NSF CAREER award to work on energy storage grid integration.