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).
