PEOPLE
PRINCIPAL Investigator
Anna G. Stefanopoulou, the William Clay Ford Professor of Technology has been recognized as a Fellow of three different societies; the ASME (08), IEEE (09), and SAE (18). She is an elected member of the Executive Committee of the ASME Dynamics Systems and Control Division and the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society. She is the Founding Chair of the ASME DSCD Energy Systems Technical Committee and a member of a U.S. National Research Council committee on the 2025 US. Light Duty Vehicle Fuel Economy Standards. She is a recipient of multiple awards and has co-authored a book, 22 US patents, and more than 350 publications (8 of which have received awards) on estimation and control of engines, fuel cells, and batteries. ... and she likes small cars, scooters, e-bikes.
2020 CV
CO-PI
Jason Siegel
Jason B. Siegel received his Bachelors of Electrical Engineering Summa Cum Laude from the University of Michigan in 2004 and Electrical Engineering Systems Ph.D. in 2010. After a two year post-doc, he joined the faculty as an Assistant Research Scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan in 2012. His research focuses on physics based modeling and control of energy storage and conversion systems including lithium-ion batteries and Proton Exchange Membrane fuel cells. Dr. Siegel was part of the team that received the 2016 IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY AWARD: "For the development of an advanced battery management system accounting for electro-thermo-mechanical phenomena." He has co/authored more than 30 journal articles with an H-index of 16, and a chapter in the control systems handbook on the application of model predictive control to fuel cells. Dr. Siegel served as the chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Automotive Control.
Post-DOCs
Andrew Weng
Andrew received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 2024. He is studying how battery manufacturing data can be used to improve battery lifetime prediction.
Students
Apoorva Roy
PhD Candidate
Apoorva is studying V2G communication protocols which can support the testing of EVs as per SAE standards. She has also worked on empirical modeling of degradation in lithium ion batteries.
Jingchen Ma
PhD Student
Jingchen is working on the energy-saving battery thermal management system.
Xin Hui Ooi
PhD Student
Xin Hui is developing a high-confidence fault detection model to aid in advance warning of thermal runaway.
Siddhant Singh
PhD Candidate
Siddhant is working on Optimal Experimental Design for lithium-ion batteries. He did his undergraduate studies in physics and applied mathematics at Macalester College.
Ali Mandviwala
Master's Student
Junseo Lee
Undergraduate Student
Junseo focuses on electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) research, including EIS modeling using deep learning and battery degradation diagnostics with EIS.
ALUMNI
Elmer (Bob) Keach IV (Ford Motor Co.)
Everardo Olide (Ford Motor Co.)
John Hauck III (General Motors)
Rebecca Pickens (McKinsey & Company)
Miriam Figueroa-Santos (US Army Ground Vehicle Systems Center)
Peyman Mohtat (Apple)
Ting Cai (Rivian)
Dale Igram
Valentin Sulzer (CEO at ionworks)
Suhak Lee (Apple)
Shima Nazari (UC Davis)
Tomas Poloni (Siemens)
Shanshan Xu (A123)
Shankar Mohan (Ford)
Nassim Samad (Apple)
Youngki Kim (UM-Dearborn)
Hector Perez (Romeo Power Technology)
Xinfan Lin (UC Davis)
Boyun Wang (AA start up)
Sun Ung Kim (Bosch)
Jixin Chen (Ford)
Denise McKahn (Smith College)
Buz McCain (Bollard Power Systems)
Vasilios Tsourapas (Eaton)
Kyungwon Suh (Hyundai)
Amey Karnik (Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar)
Jay T. Pukrushpan (Kasetsart University)
Ziyang Zhong (Mathworks)
James Marcicky (Ford)
JOINING THE GROUP
Post-doctoral positions will be advertised below.
Applications for graduate study are always welcome, however before making contact, applicants should consider carefully whether their interests are aligned with this group, how their study might be funded, and whether they meet the department and university admissions criteria. Further details may be found at the Mechanical Engineering Department website. We are not able to host internship students and will not reply to emails requesting internships.