April, 2025: Second-year PhD student Eric Pereira has received the Outstanding Graduate Research Award in recognition of his research accomplishments. Congratulations!
April, 2025: Graduate student Eric Pereira received the second place award for Outstanding Research Poster at the NSF-funded 2025 ARISE Annual Symposium in Garden City, KS, for his work on a novel approach to assessing the state of health (SOH) in commercial lithium-ion batteries for resilient infrastructure systems. Congratulations!
April, 2025: New publication alert! Congratulations to graduate student Eric Pereira and undergraduate student Damilola Ogun for their recent work on a comprehensive real-time state of health (SOH) assessment framework published in ChemElectroChem. Open access link.
March, 2025: Soares delivered invited talk at the 17th annual IEEE Green Technologies (GreenTech) Conference on lithium-ion batteries and beyond.
March, 2025: Soares attended the Engineering Research to Catalyze Resilient Rural Communities event in Iowa City, IA, where he joined a task force. This event was organized by the NSF-funded Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA). Thank you for the invitation!
March, 2025: Graduate student Md Zawad Hossain presented his work on layered conversion-based anodes at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring 2025 Meeting & Expo in San Diego, CA.
February, 2025: Graduate students Eric Pereira and Md Zawad Hossain were selected to present their research at the Graduate Research Summit in Topeka, KS. They were among only ten graduate students chosen to represent Wichita State University. Congratulations to both!
February, 2025: Soares was awarded the Young Faculty Risk Taker Award 2025. Thank you!
January, 2025: New publication alert! Congratulations to graduate students Eric Pereira and Md Zawad Hossain and to undergraduate student Damilola Ogun for their recent work that reported the development of a machine learning-based framework for online assessment of state of health (SOH) and end-of-life (EOL) prediction in commercial lithium-ion batteries. Their work has been considered as on the high-quality student papers submitted to the 2025 IEEE Green Technologies (GreenTech) conference proceedings.
January, 2025: Undergraduate student Antonio Graciano joined our lab to do research. Welcome!
November, 2024: Soares, along with graduate student Eric Pereira, attended the International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) in Portland, OR, where Eric Pereira presented his research on physics-based machine learning for state-of-health (SOH) assessment in commercial lithium-ion batteries.
October, 2024: New publication alert! Soares attended and presented a work at the 2024 IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP) in Auburn, AL. The undergraduate student Damilola Ogun is the first author of the presented work. The work can be accessed here.
September, 2024: Soares delivered invited lecture at the Workshop on microgrids and energy battery storage at Universidade Autonoma de Occidente in Cali, Colombia.
July, 2024: Soares was interviewed by a newspaper to discuss the fire risks associated with electric vehicles. A link to the full article can be accessed here.
June, 2024: Graduate student Md Zawad Hossain joined our lab. Welcome!
March, 2024: Soares received funds from the Tim & Laura Unruh Faculty Support in Engineering Fund to support work on batteries. Thank you!
February, 2024: Graduate student Eric Pereira joined our lab. Welcome!
January, 2024: Dr. Soares and Dr. Molnar received the Multidisciplinary Research Project Award (MURPA). Thank you!
November, 2023: Undergraduate student Damilola Ogun joined our lab to do research. Welcome!
October, 2023: Dr Soares received Kansas NSF EPSCoR First Award. Thank you!
September, 2023: Soares delivered invited talk at the Industrial Advisory Board meeting.
August, 2023: Dr. Soares joins the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Wichita State University.