Michael Li
PHD Student - Bazant Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Li is a PhD student in Chemical Engineering at MIT's Bazant Lab focused on mathematical modeling of electrochemical reactions, thermodynamics, and transport phenomena to understand battery degradation and predict operational lifetimes. He brings a decade of hands-on experience spanning industry and academia, including process engineering at ExxonMobil, process development in biopharma, and leadership roles scaling pilot biodiesel facilities and student consulting organizations. Michael combines rigorous experimental grounding—from polymeric drug delivery and thin-film optics research—to inform predictive models that bridge lab-scale insight and practical battery design. Based in Berkeley, he leverages cross-disciplinary projects and operational data analysis to translate complex physical chemistry into actionable strategies for energy storage across applications.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Chemical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Chemical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
logistics6
pddl5
react4
speech4
javascript3
css3
react-native2
math2
typescript2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
evhsnewspaper-cougar-chronicles/evhsnewspaper-cougar-chronicles.github.io
Sep 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:3 PRs, 64 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
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varmichelle/gender_novels
Sep 2018 - Nov 2018
Descriptions of Gender in Writing
Contributions:50 pushes in 1 month
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