Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship is a cross-campus effort of the Precourt Institute for Energy.

2026 Agenda

Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship Symposium
April 2-3, 2026
Stanford University

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

Agenda | Speakers

Thursday morning, April 2

8:30aRegistration & Breakfast
8:45aAudrey Yau, Fellowship Director - Welcome
8:50aYi Cui, Faculty Director - Opening Remarks

Session 1: Advances in electrochemical storage

9:00aLinda Nazar, Professor, University of Waterloo
Resolving Interfaces and Ion Transport in All- Solid-State Batteries
Introduction by Kieran Orr, Fellow
9:40aXintong Yuan, Fellow
Deciphering Continuous Electrochemical Pathways for High-Performance Batteries  
10:00aZisheng Zhang, Fellow
Realistic Modeling and Computational Design of Mixed Boride Electrocatalysts
10:20aBreak

Session 2: Unraveling nanostructure properties 

10:30aKate Reidy, Professor, Stanford University
 
Introduction by Jack Holoubek, Fellow
11:10aKyle Frohna, Fellow
Nanoscale imaging of operating electrochemical devices for grid-scale energy storage
11:30aYecun Wu, Fellow 
Seeing and Controlling Ions in Energy Devices
11:50aBreak
12:00pLunch & Poster Session
Poster presentations by Stanford Energy Fellows: Mike Baird, Xinyu Dou, Jack Holoubek, Will McNeil, Kieran Orr, Luca Vialetto  

Thursday afternoon, April 2

Session 3: Innovating sustainable pathways

1:00pErnie Moniz, Former US Secretary of Energy; Emeritus Faculty, MIT; Founder and CEO, EFI Foundation
 
Introduction by Luca Vialetto, Fellow
1:40pLiat Adler, Fellow
Exploiting Algal Photosynthesis for Enhanced Biofuel Production
2:00pGarrick Lim, Fellow 
Thermocatalytic CO2 conversion to fuels
2:20pBreak

Session 4: Navigating the clean transition

2:30pKaren Skelton, Visiting Scholar, SDSS; Senior Policy Advisor
 
Introduction by Will McNeil, Fellow
3:10pChenfei Qu, Fellow
Designing Equitable Solutions for Energy Transition 
3:30pLisa Rennels, Fellow
Climate Risks to Energy-Dependent Climate Adaptation
3:50pBreak

Session 5: Interdisciplinary discussion on energy futures

4:00pSpeakers Panel 
Moderated by Professor Yi Ciu
5:00pDinner and Discussion

Friday morning, April 3

8:30aRegistration & Breakfast
8:55aAudrey Yau, Fellowship Director - Welcome

Session 6: Designing sustainable and resilient systems

9:00aAdam Wierman, Professor, Caltech
 
Introduction by Xinyu Dou, Fellow
9:40aNico Christianson, Fellow
Algorithmic Foundations of Safe and Reliable AI in Sustainable Energy Systems  
10:00aJaekwon Lee, Fellow
High Efficiency Silicon Photonics for Solving the Data Center Energy Crisis
10:20aBreak

Session 7: Innovations in energy storage 

10:30aYet-Ming Chiang, Professor, MIT
 Energy Innovation:  So Many Opportunities, So Little Time
Introduction by Mike Baird, Fellow
11:10aPaulina Majchrzak, Fellow
In-operando spectroscopic investigation of highly oxidised metal-oxide battery cathodes
11:30aDavid Juergens, Fellow 
Artificial intelligence for battery design
11:50aBreak
12:00pLunch & Poster Session
Poster presentations by Stanford Energy Fellows: Mike Baird, Xinyu Dou, Jack Holoubek, Will McNeil, Kieran Orr, Luca Vialetto  
1:00pYi Cui, Faculty Director - Closing Remarks