His research group has broad expertise in energy storage and Li-ion batteries, specifically as they pertain to electric vehicles and planes. His focus is on identifying the scientific principles governing material design, inorganic, organic and biomaterials, for novel energy conversion and storage routes. The material design is carried out through a suite of computational methods being developed in the group validated by experiments. In addition to material design, his team is involved in several multidisciplinary areas such as battery controls, electric vehicle security, and GPU accelerated computing.  