2025

Professor Anna's 2025 Keynotes, Plenaries, and Seminars:
It's been a busy year for BCG and Prof Anna in particular! This year, she gave a total of 5 keynote/plenary talks and headed 8 seminars.

Keynotes and Plenaries:

• October 29, 2025:    Keynote, Symposium on Physics and Machine Learning for Batteries, RWTH Aachen University

• October 8, 2025:    Plenary, IEEE Smart Cities, Patra, Greece

• September 17, 2025: Buckendale Lecture, SAE Commercial Vehicle Conference, Chicago

• May 22 - 23, 2025:   Plenary, 1st BriAS Battery Monitoring and Control Conference, Brussels Institute of Advanced Studies

• February 5, 2025:    Keynote, Inaugural Advancing Battery Mathematical Modeling Conference (with PyBaMM)

Seminars:

• • April 23 - 24, 2025: UIUC

  • May 7 - 8, 2025: BEV-MI

  • May 12 - 14, 2025:  NYBEST

  • June 24, 2025: AABC Mainz

  • July 7, 2025: ACC

  • July 29 - 31, 2025: NAATBATT

  • August 5 - 8, 2025:  IEEE ESTS

  • October 8, 2025: NTUA

October 16, 2025

Professor Anna was awarded the prestigious title of Huei Peng Distinguished University Professor of Mechanical Engineering! Please join us in congratulating her on the outstanding achievement! Read more about it here

October 12-16, 2025

We attended the Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting in Chicago!

Presentations:

• Xin Hui presented on Mobile-Guided Gas Sensing for Vent Detection in Battery Energy Storage Systems in Session M01 - Recent Advances in Sensors Systems: Gas Sensors

• Xin Hui presented on the Sensitivity of Observable Temperature and Voltage Changes for Detection of Internal Short-Circuit in Parallel Connected Cells in Session A01 - New Approaches and Advances in Electrochemical Energy Systems: Battery safety

Awards:

• Xin Hui was selected as the A01 Symposium Presentation Award Winner for her presentation on the Sensitivity of Observable Temperature and Voltage Changes for Detection of Internal Short-Circuit in Parallel Connected Cells!

October 5-8, 2025

We attended the Modelling, Estimation, and Controls Conference (MECC) in Pittsburgh!

Presentations:

• Xin Hui presented at a workshop for middle and high school students about how we use feedback control concepts with batteries (“Honk, Rattle, Crash, Beep Beep! Battery Cells Under Distress")

• Hamid and Xin Hui presented on Interacting Multiple-Model for Fault Detection and Short Resistance Estimation in Parallel Connected Lithium-ion Batteries

July 7-10, 2025

See you at the American Control Conference, 2025, in Denver!

May 7-8, 2025

We were at the Battery & EV Congress (BEV) organized by the Global Automotive Management Council in Troy, Michigan!

Professor Anna spoke about Degradation and Short Detection in Parallel-Connected Cell Groups.

Presentations:

• Apoorva and Hamid presented on Health Estimation for Second Use/Life Batteries.

April 14-16, 2025

We attended the SAE World Congress conference in Detroit! 

As part of the Battery Safety Summit, Vivian participated in a panel discussion on "Shaping the Future of E-Mobility: Safety, Sustainability, and Design Challenges”.

In addition, the following members presented:

• Omar: Control-Oriented Statistical Model of In-Cylinder Pressure, Combustion Phasing, and Torque for Compression-Ignition Engines Operating with Low Cetane Fuels

• Ali: Initial Assessment of Component Sizing and Power-Split for Fuel Cell Hybrid Electric Heavy-Duty Trucks

• Ashwin: Lessons and Challenges from Crowd-Sourced Data in Rural Michigan to Assess EV Suitability based on Analyzing Personal Driving

• Apoorva: Electric Vehicle Batteries: Repurposing for Second Life

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