2025-now   Postdoc, Center for Combustion Energy, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, and Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University

2023-2025  Postdoc, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University

Associate Editor, Physical Review Fluids

My research interest lies in the interdisciplinary area of artificial intelligence, materials science, and electrochemistry, with a focus on next-generation energy storage systems, including solid-state and high-energy batteries, as well as fuel cells. My previous research encompasses two primary areas:

(1) Intelligent battery design: Focused on AI-assisted material design, performance modeling, and battery management, as well as the design of intelligent built-in sensors and components.

(2) Battery safety issues: Emphasizing the understanding, modeling, and addressing of battery safety challenges, including lithium plating and thermal runaway.

2023 Shuimu Tsinghua Scholarship Program for Outstanding Postdoctoral Researcher, Tsinghua University

1. Wang Y. Thermal hazards—Including thermal runaway, explosions and propagation, in Encyclopedia of Electrochemical Power Sources, Elsevier; 2025, p. 677–87.

Selected Publications in 5 years:

1. Wang Y, Feng X, Guo D, Hsu H, Hou J, Zhang F, et al. Temperature excavation to boost machine learning battery thermochemical predictions. Joule 2024;8:2639–51.

2. Han X*, Mao S, Wang Y*, Lu Y, Wang D, Sun Y, et al. Manipulation of lithium dendrites based on electric field relaxation enabling safe and long-life lithium-ion batteries. Nat Commun 2025;16:3699.

3.  Li K, Gao X, Peng S, Wang S, Zhang W, Liu P, Wu W, Wang H, Wang Y*, et al. A comparative study on multidimensional signal evolution during thermal runaway of lithium-ion batteries with various cathode materials. Energy 2024;300:131560.

4. Wang Y, Feng X, Huang W, He X, Wang L, Ouyang M. Challenges and Opportunities to Mitigate the Catastrophic Thermal Runaway of High-Energy Batteries. Advanced Energy Materials 2023;13:2203841.

5. Wang Y, Feng X, Peng Y, Zhang F, Ren D, Liu X, et al. Reductive gas manipulation at early self-heating stage enables controllable battery thermal failure. Joule 2022;6:2810–20. (

6. Lu Y, Guo D, Xiong G, Wei Y, Zhang J, Wang Y, et al. Towards real-world state of health estimation: Part 2, system level method using electric vehicle field data. eTransportation 2024;22.

7. Lu Y, Chen X, Han X, Guo D, Wang Y, Feng X, et al. Mechanisms for the evolution of cell-to-cell variations and their impacts on fast-charging performance within a lithium-ion battery pack. Journal of Energy Chemistry 2024;99:11–22.

8. Qian G, Wang Y, Zheng Y, Sun Y, Ouyang M, Han X, et al. The timescale identification and quantification of complicated kinetic processes in lithium-ion batteries based on micro-reference electrodes. Journal of Power Sources 2024;614. (IF=8.1)

9. Jin C, Sun Y, Zheng Y, Yao J, Wang Y, Lai X, et al. In situ observation of thermal runaway propagation in lithium-ion battery electrodes triggered by high-frequency induction heating. Cell Reports Physical Science 2023;4:101465. (IF=7.9)

10. Wang Y, Ren D, Feng X, Wang L, Ouyang M. Thermal runaway modeling of large format high-nickel/silicon-graphite lithium-ion batteries based on reaction sequence and kinetics. Applied Energy 2022;306.

11. Li K, Wang L, Wang Y*, Feng X*, Jiang F*, Ouyang M. Correlating phase transition with heat generation through calorimetric data. eScience 2023:100226

12. Hu X, Wang Y*, Feng X*, Wang L, Ouyang M, Zhang Q. Thermal stability of ionic liquids for lithium-ion batteries: A review, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2025.

13. Mao S, Wang Y*, Lu Y, Han X*, Zheng Y, Feng X, et al. In situ evaluation and manipulation of lithium plating morphology enabling safe and long-life lithium-ion batteries. InfoMat 2024:e12612.

14. Wang Y, Ren D, Feng X, Wang L, Ouyang M. Thermal kinetics comparison of delithiated Li[NixCoyMn1-x-y]O2 cathodes. Journal of Power Sources 2021;514.

15. Hou J, Feng X, Wang L, Liu X, Ohma A, Lu L, Ren D, Huang W, Li Y, Yi M, Wang Y, et al. Unlocking the self-supported thermal runaway of high-energy lithium-ion batteries. Energy Storage Materials 2021;39:395–402.