Yi Cui

Yi Cui is the Founding Faculty Director of Stanford Sustainability Accelerator, previous Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy, Fortinet Founders Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Energy Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1998 from the University of Science & Technology of China and his PhD in chemistry from Harvard University in 2002. He was a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley from 2002 to 2005. He joined in the Stanford faculty in 2005.

A preeminent researcher of nanotechnologies for better batteries and other sustainability materials technologies, Cui has published more than 600 papers and is one of the world’s most cited scientists with H-index 298. In 2014 he was ranked NO.1 worldwide in Materials Science by Thomas Reuters. He is the Director of Aqueous Battery Consortium (a $62.5M energy innovation hub funded by US Department of Energy). He has founded six companies to commercialize technologies from his lab: Amprius Inc. (listed in NYSE: AMPX), 4C Air Inc., EEnotech Inc., LifeLabs Design Inc., EnerVenue Inc. and Zero Inc.

Cui is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences, an elected foreign member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, fellow of the Materials Research Society, fellow of the Electrochemical Society, and fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. His selected honors include Global Energy Prize (2021), Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (2021), Materials Research Society Medal (2020), Electrochemical Society Battery Technology Award (2019) and Blavatnik National Laureate (2017).