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Howard Qingsong Tu — Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, RIT.
Howard Qingsong Tu
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Kate Gleason College of Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Prof. Tu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Gerbrand Ceder at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research solves electro-chemo-mechanical problems in energy storage systems — such as solid-state batteries — and in water desalination systems. Throughout his PhD and postdoc he collaborated closely with experimentalists and theorists at both LBNL and UC Berkeley across a range of research areas, and he continues to pair modeling with in-house experiment at RIT.
Education & appointments
2021 – present · Rochester Institute of Technology Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering.
2017 – 2021 · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Postdoctoral Researcher, Materials Science Division. Supervisor: Gerbrand Ceder. Electro-chemo-mechanics of Li metal and composite cathodes in solid-state batteries.
2012 – 2017 · University of California, Berkeley PhD in Mechanics and Environmental Engineering. Supervisor: Shaofan Li. Nano-micro mechanics of 2D-material membranes for water purification and desalination.