IET-1-Kolloquium mit Prof. Dr. Boryann Liaw (Idaho National Laboratory)
IET-1-Kolloquium mit Prof. Dr. Boryann Liaw (Idaho National Laboratory)
Vortragender: Prof. Dr. Boryann Liaw / Idaho National Laboratory, USA
Exascale high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), and quantum computing are exciting topics, enlightening the next generation of technology innovations. To support these innovations, huge datasets, high power computation, and sophisticated infrastructure are required to warrant their success. For energy technology development and deployment, data-driven approaches are becoming fashionable and desirable to utilize such capabilities for technology advancements. The challenges to overcome obstacles in the pursuit of data-driven approaches are also being noted in the literature nowadays. For battery research and development (R&D), we shall examine the reality of the data-driven approaches to identify obstacles and challenges to fully understand the prospect and shape the R&D landscape to tackle these obstacles. This presentation is aiming at this direction to outline what have been learned in the past couple decades and shed some lights on future directions.
Dr. Liaw has spent three decades in pursuing battery evaluations and R&D activities, many focusing on data collection from real-life to laboratory testing and model simulations to explain the context of the data collected for deciphering how batteries behave and age over their lifetime. He will provide some personal experience and observation to explain what the reality and prospect of the data-driven battery R&D in the foreseeable future.
A brief biography of Boryann Liaw
This is Boryann Liaw, a guest scientist for IET-1. I have four decades of experience with battery R&D across academia, national labs, and industry. I was a tenured faculty at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (1989 to 2016), visiting scientists at Sandia (2001) and Lawrence Berkeley (2005) national labs, and department manager (2016-2019) and Directorate Fellow (2019-2023) at Idaho National Lab. I started High Power Research Lab in 1996 for consulting services for companies, including Ford (1999-2001) and ATL/CATL (2014-2015), to apply my knowledge to industrial partners.
My expertise aligns with rechargeable batteries, fuel cells, infrastructure for electrification, energy harvesting, and data-informed technologies. Since 1994, I have been actively involving in battery and electric vehicle evaluation and analyses, diagnoses, and prognoses, both in laboratory and field studies. I also acquired in-depth understanding on battery modeling and simulation, performance and life prediction, fast charging, and aging/degradation/failure studies. I also have experiences on solid oxide fuel cells (1988-2003), PEM fuel cells (1998-2005), bio-fuel cells (2005-2010), with a few patents, including sugar-air alkaline batteries. I am a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society (2016) and recent recipients of the Electrochemical Society Battery Division’s Research award (2022), International Battery Association’s (IBA) Technology award (2020), and Asian American Engineer of the Year by National Society of Professional Engineers (2019).