2025 Agenda

Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship Symposium
May 23, 2025
Stanford University

Mackenzie Room, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center
475 Via Ortega 3rd Floor, Stanford, CA 94305

8:15a	Registration & Breakfast
8:45a	Audrey Yau, Fellowship Director, Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship Welcome
8:50a	Yi Cui, Faculty Director, Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship Opening Remarks
Session 1: Renewables and Storage
9:00a	Dick Swanson, Founder, SunPower Solar Cell Development: From the early days of remote applications to the largest source of new electric generation capacity today.
9:00a	Introduction by Kyle Frohna, Fellow
9:45a	Jack Holoubek, Fellow Electrolyte Design for Advanced Batteries and Electrolyzers
10:05a	Yukio Cho, Fellow Designing Cathode Architecture for High-Energy Lithium–Sulfur Solid-State Batteries
10:20a	Break
Session 2: Conversion and Efficiency
10:30a	Ted Sargent, Professor, Northwestern University What does the rise of data centers and AI, and their energy demand, mean for solar energy, environmental sensing, and carbon management?
10:30a	Introduction by Kieran Orr, Fellow
11:15a	Fabia Farlin Athena, Fellow Orthogonal  Threshold Voltage Control Leveraging Interface Dipoles in Gain‑Cell Memory for Energy-Efficient  AI Inference
11:35a	Yecun Wu, Fellow Visualizing and Differentiating Individual Ions in Liquid
11:50a	Break

12:00p	Lunch & Poster Session
12:00p	Poster presentations by Stanford Energy Fellows: Liat Adler, Feng-Yang Cheng, Xinyu Dou, Jackie Dowling, Kyle Frohna, Eli Lazarus, Paulina Majchrzak, Kieran Orr, Yifan Wang, Zisheng Zhang
Session 3: Energy Transition and Climate
1:00p	Sally Benson, Former Energy Division Director and Chief Strategist for the Energy Transition at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Insights from Macroenergy Systems Analysis on the Energy Transition
1:00p	Introduction by Xinyu Dou, Fellow
1:40p	Cong Chen, Fellow Global Energy Transition: Distributed Energy Resource Aggregation, Energy Storage, and Alternative Energy
2:00p	Lisa Rennels, Fellow Programming Tools and Human-Computer Interaction: Supporting Climate Change Research and Policy
2:20p	Break
Session 4: Technology and Sustainability
2:30p	Danielle Mai, Professor, Chemical Engineering Reversible photocrosslinking of polymer networks for sustainable 3D printing
2:30p	Introduction by Yifan Wang, Fellow
3:10p	Luca Vialetto, Fellow Entering the field of plasma-assisted agriculture
3:30p	Lev Tsypin, Fellow Microalgae for Global Public Health
3:50p	Break

4:00p	Fireside Chat with Franklin M ("Lynn") Orr, Jr. Professor, Stanford Engineering & Science Moderated by Professor Yi Ciu
4:00p	Introduction by Paulina Majchrzak, Fellow
4:45p	Closing Remarks
5:00p	Reception