Grace Yee

Grace Yee has worked in various roles related to energy and materials engineering since 2014. In 2014, they were an Undergraduate Research Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University and a Materials Engineering Intern at Sandia National Laboratories. In 2015, they were a Materials Engineering Intern at Sandia National Laboratories. In 2016, they were a Research and Development Intern at Aquion Energy. In 2017, they were a Battery Engineering Intern at Natron Energy. Since 2018, they have been a Senior Battery Engineer, Manager of Reliability Physics, and Battery Development Engineer at Natron Energy. In their roles, they have been responsible for continually improving the long-term reliability of Natron Energy's industrial battery solutions, working in a cross-disciplinary fashion across internal teams and external parties to implement reliability solutions, leading a small team to design and execute experiments that answer fundamental materials science questions, designing and executing experiments to understand and mitigate battery cell degradation mechanisms, defining and implementing specifications and test methods to assure product quality, and conducting active materials related research and experimenting with alternative battery format for an aqueous battery.

Grace Yee attended Lick Wilmerding High School from 2009 to 2013. Grace then went on to pursue a Bachelor of Science in Materials Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University from 2013 to 2017. Grace continued their studies at Carnegie Mellon University, earning a Master of Science in Materials Science & Engineering in 2017.