CV — Dhevathi Rajagopalan Kannan

Experience

May 2023 — Present

Research Scientist

UL Research Institutes · Houston, TX

Planned, designed, and conducted lithium-ion and sodium-ion battery safety tests on cells and modules.
Performed battery performance tests on existing and new battery chemistries.
Performed analytical characterization techniques for battery material understanding.
Led instrumentation setup, data collection, and data analysis.

Aug 2024 — Present

Fellow

Clean Energy Leadership Institute

Selective fellowship equipping professionals with the skills to become effective leaders in the clean energy sector.

May 2026 — Present

Workforce Readiness & Development Committee Contributor

Volta Foundation

Collaborating with industry and academia to align workforce readiness frameworks, training models, and curricula across the battery value chain.

Jun 2022 — Present

Peer Reviewer

MDPI — Batteries & Energies

Reviewed manuscripts and provided comments and corrections for research submitted to MDPI's Batteries and Energies journals.

Mar 2021 — Present

Ambassador

Battery Associates

Provided input on various projects and events for the Battery Associates community.

Jan 2022 — May 2025

Editor

Volta Foundation

Contributed to the annual Battery Report, covering key events across the battery industry each year.

Mar 2023 — May 2023

Sr. Battery Test Engineer — Senior Member Technical Staff

QuantumScape · San Jose, CA

Mar 2022 — Mar 2023

Manager, Battery Cell Testing

Romeo Power, Inc. (acquired by Nikola Corporation) · Los Angeles, CA

Executed battery cell tests for electrical and thermal performance characterization.
Planned and performed cell-level DVP-R testing for product validation.
Supported development of BMS algorithms and simulations.
Increased battery cell testing capacity by 2.5×.
Managed lab inventory, resource allocation, and equipment calibration schedules.

Apr 2021 — Mar 2022

Battery Test Engineer, Battery Technology (R&D)

Romeo Power, Inc. · Los Angeles, CA

Characterized lithium-ion cells through testing, validation, and data analysis.
Designed and integrated test instrumentation and fixture setups for R&D projects.
Ran aging, fast-charge cycling, pulse charge-discharge, EIS, dQ/dV, DCIR, OCV-SOC, and SOC/SOH calibration tests for cell qualification and modeling.

Jun 2017 — Dec 2020

Graduate Teaching Assistant

FAMU-FSU College of Engineering

Lab instructor for Advanced Circuits with Computers, Introduction to Electrical Engineering, ECE Engineering Tools, and Electromagnetic Fields; assisted with battery dynamics modeling and simulation coursework.

Aug 2016 — Dec 2020

Research Assistant Laboratory Leader & Graduate Student Researcher

Energy Storage & Materials Research Laboratory / FREEDM Systems Center

Led experiments on pulse charging and CC-CV charging across LCO, NMC, LMO, LFP, and LTO cell chemistries.
Studied separator porosity, binder composition, and electrode density effects via coin-cell fabrication.
Modeled discharge performance in COMSOL Multiphysics and MATLAB; simulated charge equalization in MATLAB/Simulink.
Managed lab inventory, safety compliance, and trained students on instrumentation.

Jun 2019 — Aug 2019

New Energies Research and Technology Intern

Shell · Houston, TX

Analyzed energy storage system data from the battery management system.
Developed test protocols for monitoring microgrid energy storage efficiency and state-of-health.
Worked on cost estimation for solar energy and electric mobility projects.

Publications

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Implications of Oxygen Release and Crossover for Thermal Stability in Solid-State Batteries
ACS Energy Letters · 2026
A Hierarchical Physics-Based Framework for Thermal Runaway Propagation in Next-Generation Battery Modules
249th ECS Meeting · 2026
Experimental and Modeling Study of Electrical Connectivity Effects on Battery Pack Degradation
249th ECS Meeting · 2026
Characterizing the Performance of Commercial Sodium-Ion Batteries
249th ECS Meeting · 2026
Two-Dimensional Ignition Prediction of Pressurized Hydrogen Jets Using a Reduced-Order Homogeneous Mixing Ignition Model
2026
Compressible Reactive Simulations of High-Pressure Hydrogen Jet Releases Using Partially Stirred Reactor Model for Turbulence-Chemistry Interaction
2026
A Quantitative Lithium Inventory Framework for Anode-Free Lithium Metal Batteries
Advanced Energy Materials · 2026 · 2 citations
Thermal stability landscape of solid-state batteries
ACS Energy Letters 11(3), 2382–2398 · 2026 · 5 citations
Role of Anode Composition and Electrolyte Interactions on the Thermo-Electrochemical Stability of Sodium-Ion Batteries
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces · 2026 · 1 citation
Unveiling the Graphite Electrolyte Interphase Evolution under Fast Charging Conditions in Commercial Cells
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 17(50), 68650–68660 · 2025 · 1 citation
Perspective on Thermal Stability and Safety of Sodium-Ion Batteries
ACS Energy Letters 10(11), 5383–5397 · 2025 · 18 citations
Interrogating the Thermo-Electrochemical Instability and Safety in Lithium Metal Electrodes with Liquid Electrolytes
Advanced Energy Materials · 2025 · 4 citations
Mechanistic Interrogation of Li Stripping under Dynamic Operation in Solid-State Batteries
ACS Energy Letters 10(9), 4212–4220 · 2025 · 4 citations
A Global 4-Step Combustion Modelling Strategy for Hydrogen and Blends of Hydrogen and Natural Gas
Combustion Institute – Canadian Section · 2025 · 1 citation
Detonation Re-initiation Mechanisms in Methane-Hydrogen-Oxygen Mixtures: Experimental and Numerical Insights into the Final Stage of DDT
Combustion Institute – Canadian Section · 2025
Characterizing the Safety of Commercial Sodium-ion Cells and Modules
Institute for Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems · 2025
The role of perturbations on the shock-flame complex leading to detonation
30th Int'l Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems · 2025 · 2 citations
Detonation initiation regimes of shock-flame complexes in fuel blends of hydrogen and methane
30th Int'l Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems · 2025 · 1 citation
Coupled Electrical–Thermal–Electrochemical Model of a Battery Module
Electrochemical Society Meeting Abstracts 245, 477 · 2024
Efficient CFD Strategy with Global Combustion Model for Investigating Deflagration-to-Detonation Transition in Fuel Blends
Combustion Institute – Canadian Section · 2024 · 1 citation
Experimental Study on the Deflagration to Detonation Transition (DDT) in Blends of Hydrogen and Methane with Oxygen
Combustion Institute – Canadian Section · 2024 · 3 citations
The Effect of Pulse Charging on Commercial Lithium Cobalt Oxide (LCO) Battery Characteristics
International Journal of Electrochemical Science 16(3) · 2021 · 20 citations
The effect of pulse charging on commercial lithium nickel cobalt oxide (NMC) cathode lithium-ion batteries
Journal of Power Sources 479, 229085 · 2020 · 71 citations
The Effects of Pulse Charging on Commercial Lithium-Ion Batteries
Doctoral dissertation, Florida A&M University / Florida State University · 2020 · 1 citation
Improvements to Temperature, Warburg Impedance, and Voltage Computations for a Design-Based Predictive Model for Lithium-Ion Capacitors
Materials Sciences and Applications 11(6), 347–369 · 2020 · 1 citation
MS and EIS Characterization of Electrolessly Deposited Composite Metals on Carbon Fiber Surfaces
Electrochemical Society Meeting Abstracts 235, 1939 · 2019 · 1 citation
Optimization of Energy Transfer during Active Balancing of Lithium-Ion Batteries
Electrochemical Society Meeting Abstracts 235, 98 · 2019
An Experimental Analysis on the Impacts of Different Pulse Charging Frequencies on Lithium Ion Batteries
Electrochemical Society Meeting Abstracts 235, 393 · 2019
Analysis of the Separator Thickness and Porosity on the Performance of Lithium-Ion Batteries
International Journal of Electrochemistry 2018, Article 1925708 · 2018 · 100 citations
Using Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy and Equivalent Circuit Modeling to Analyze Capacity Fade in Lithium-Ion Batteries Due to Pulse Charging
Electrochemical Society Meeting Abstracts 232, 255 · 2017
An Experimental Analysis on the Impacts of Current Pulsing with Varying Current Amplitudes on Lithium-Ion Cells
Electrochemical Society Meeting Abstracts 232, 119 · 2017

Dhevathi Rajan Rajagopalan Kannan

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