Academic Experience:

2013.09–2018.07: Tsinghua University – Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering

2009.09–2013.07: Northwestern Polytechnical University – B.E. in Materials Science and Engineering

Work Experience:

2026.04–present: Shanghai Jiao Tong University – Tenure-track Associate Professor

2023.03–2026.03: Tongji University – Researcher

2022.05–2023.02: Stanford University, USA – Postdoctoral Fellow

2019.08–2022.04: University of Maryland, USA – Postdoctoral Fellow

2018.08–2019.07: Iowa State University, USA – Postdoctoral Fellow

Courses Taught:

Machine Learning and Python Practice – Undergraduate core course (Course Leader)

Books:

AI + New Energy Materials (Digital Textbook), Editor-in-Chief, Higher Education Electronic & Audio-Visual Press

International Conferences:

Organized the 2023 Virtual Lab International Young Scholars Forum on Energy Storage and Semiconductor Materials

Academic Services:

Youth Editorial Board Member or Guest Editor for 12 journals, including Nano-Micro Letters, Chinese Chemical Letters, Exploration, Innovation, MGE Advances, etc.

Additional Information:

Postdoctoral fellows, research assistants, Ph.D. students, Master’s students, undergraduate thesis students, and participants in the Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program are welcome year-round. Young talents with backgrounds in Materials Science, Chemistry, Energy and Power Engineering, or related disciplines are encouraged to join. Email: menghaoyang@sjtu.edu.cn

"AI+Energy Materials" Research Group Website: https://www.labxing.com/-10175

1. AI-enabled design of high-stability solid-state battery materials

2. AI-optimized design of efficient electrocatalyst materials

3. Design of new energy materials using generative AI and large language models

Over 100 peer-reviewed papers. In the past five years, published more than 40 papers as first or corresponding author (including equal contributions) in journals such as Nat. Mater. (2), Nat. Catal. (2), Nat. Commun. (4), Adv. Mater. (2), Sci. Adv. (2), Angew. Chem., Adv. Funct. Mater. (2), Energy Storage Mater. (3), Small (3), etc. Full list: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&hl=en&user=sUDnhFYAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate

1. Mingjin Cui; Zhicheng Tian; Yongqing Gong; Bo Xu; Qingtao Gu; Hanjun Li; Xuyang Zhang; Menghao Yang*; Ping He*; Shixue Dou; Yu Ding*;  Heating- and leaching-free separation of electrodes by liquid metals for regeneration of spent Li-ion batteries, National Science Review, 2026, 13(9): nwag142. 

2. Mohamed Ait Tamerd; Xiaoting Lin; Ji'an Wang; Limin Cai; Abdelilah Lahmar; Jiwei Ma; Menghao Yang*; Accelerated discovery of solid-state battery properties enabled by active learning approaches, Science China Materials, 2025, 68(6): 1974-1985.

3. Shuhong Yi; Chenlong Gao; Qingfeng Fu; Shiru Wu; Jian-Fang Wu; Yan Duan*; Menghao Yang*; Jilei Liu*; Fast Potassium-Ion Conduction in K3LnSi3O9 (Ln = Y and Gd) Enabled by P-Doping Toward Ultrastable Quasi-Solid-State Batteries, Advanced Materials, 2025, 37(41): e07380.

4. Xiaoting Lin†; Shumin Zhang†; Menghao Yang†; Biwei Xiao; Yang Zhao; Jing Luo; Jiamin Fu; Changhong Wang; Xiaona Li; Weihan Li; Feipeng Yang; Hui Duan; Jianwen Liang; Bolin Fu; Hamidreza Abdolvand; Jinghua Guo; Graham King; Xueliang Sun; A family of dual-anion-based sodium superionic conductors for all-solid-state sodium-ion batteries, Nature Materials, 2025, 24(1): 83-91.

5. Menghao Yang; Yunsheng Liu; Yifei Mo; Lithium crystallization at solid interfaces, Nature Communications, 2023, 14(1): 2986.

6. Menghao Yang; Yunsheng Liu; Adelaide M. Nolan; Yifei Mo; Interfacial atomistic mechanisms of lithium metal stripping and plating in solid-state batteries, Advanced Materials, 2021, 33(11): 2008081.

1. Deep learning-driven intelligent design of electrochemical interfaces – General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2026–2029, Principal Investigator (PI)

2. Atomic model of solid electrolyte interphase formation in lithium-ion batteries – NSFC Young Scientists Fund (Category C), 2024–2026, PI

3. AI-enabled intelligent design of large-scale atomic interfaces for solid-state batteries – Exploratory Program of the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission, PI

Currently holds 3 invention patents and 11 software copyrights.

1. First-principles-based theoretical simulation and calculation method for oxygen reduction reaction, medium, and program product – Authorization No. CN 119380897 B

2. Method for analyzing electrolyte decomposition process of Mg-ion batteries based on reactive molecular dynamics simulation – Authorization No. CN 119446343 B

3. Finite element method for simulating conical electrode-promoted electrocatalytic oxygen evolution under uniform magnetic field – Authorization No. CN 119442743 B

1. Shanghai Municipal "Magnolia" Talent Program

2. China Energy Catalysis Rising Star Award, National Conference on Advanced Battery Materials and Energy Catalytic Materials 2026

3. Materials Square International Computational Simulation Competition – Excellence Award