Education
- PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, September 2018 — October 2024, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
- MEng, Materials Science and Engineering, August 2017 — May 2018, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
- BS, Materials Science and Engineering, September 2013 — June 2017, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Experience
- 12/24 — present, Postdoctoral researcher, DOE GATE Center for Electric Drive Transportation, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA
- 08/2020 — 09/2024, Junior research fellow, NSF MRSEC Center for Complex and Active Materials at UC Irvine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- 09/2018 — 06/2022, Graduate researcher, DOE SCALAR Energy Frontier Research Center at UCLA, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
The Research I have Been Working on
- Synthesis and characterization of perovskites as solid electrolytes for next-generation Li-ion batteries
- High dimensional bayesian optimization for materials discovery
- Electron backscatter diffraction analysis on ceramics microstructure and crystallography
Hobbies
- Camping, Travel, Badminton, Baseball, Painting
Journal Publications
- Ko, S.T., Du, C., Guo, H., Vahidi, H., Wardini, J.L., Lee, T., Liu, Y., Yang, J., Guzman, F., Rupert, T.J., Bowman, W.J., Dillon, S.J., Pan X., Luo, J., 2025. Temperature-dependent microstructural evolution in a compositionally complex solid electrolyte: The role of a grain boundary transition. Journal of Advanced Ceramics.
- Ko, S.T., Lee, T., Venegas, J.A., Ong, S.P., Pan, X. and Luo, J., 2025. Investigating the composition-microstructure-property relationship in two dimensions in a new class of compositionally complex solid electrolytes. Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 45(5), p.117126.
- Bhimineni, S.H., Ko, S.T., Cornwell, C., Xia, Y., Tolbert, S.H., Luo, J. and Sautet, P., 2024. First Principles Study of Aluminum Doped Polycrystalline Silicon as a Potential Anode Candidate in Li‐ion Batteries. Advanced Energy Materials, 14(34), p.2400924.
- Ko, S.T., Lee, T., Qi, J., Zhang, D., Peng, W.T., Wang, X., Tsai, W.C., Sun, S., Wang, Z., Bowman, W.J., Ong, S.P., Pan, X., and Luo, J., 2023. Compositionally complex perovskite oxides: Discovering a new class of solid electrolytes with interface-enabled conductivity improvements. Matter, 6(7), pp.2395-2418.
- Yan, Q., Ko, S.T., Dawson, A., Agyeman-Budu, D., Whang, G., Zhao, Y., Qin, M., Dunn, B.S., Weker, J.N., Tolbert, S.H. and Luo, J., 2022. Thermodynamics-driven interfacial engineering of alloy-type anode materials. Cell Reports Physical Science, 3(1).
- Yan, Q., Ko, S.T., Zhao, Y., Whang, G., Dawson, A., Tolbert, S.H., Dunn, B.S. and Luo, J., 2020. Cryogenic Milling Method to Fabricate Nanostructured Anodes. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 3(11), pp.11285-11292.
- Ko, S.T., Lee, T., Qi, J., Zhang, D., Peng, W.T., Wang, X., Tsai, W.C., Sun, S., Wang, Z., Bowman, W.J., Ong, S.P., Pan, X., and Luo, J., “Discovery of a New Class of Compositionally Complex Perovskite Oxides as Li-ion Solid Electrolytes,” 2024 Sustainable Power and Energy Center Research Summit, UC San Diego, San Diego, CA, September 17, 2024 (Invited talk).
- Ko, S.T., Lee, T., Qi, J., Zhang, D., Peng, W.T., Wang, X., Tsai, W.C., Sun, S., Wang, Z., Bowman, W.J., Ong, S.P., Pan, X., and Luo, J., “Enhanced Li-ion Conductivity in Compositionally Complex Perovskite Oxides,” Symposium: Advances in Powder and Ceramic Materials Science, 2023 TMS Annual Meeting (TMS 2023), San Diego, CA, March 20, 2023 (Oral Presentation).
- Ko, S.T., Zhang, D., Lee, T., Qi, J., Ong, S.P., Pan, X., and Luo, J., “Compositionally Complex Perovskite Oxides as a New Class of Li-Ion Solid Electrolytes,” 2022 Solid State Studies in Ceramics, Gordon Research Seminar & Conference, South Hadley, MA , August 6-12, 2022 (Poster Presentation).
