Wei Lu is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. He received his B.S. from Tsinghua University and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. Professor Lu uses machine learning to address major challenges in mechanical engineering and energy applications. He has more than 180 journal publications in high-impact peer-reviewed journals and 200 presentations and invited talks in international conferences, universities, and national labs, including Harvard, MIT, and Stanford. As an expert in machine learning and AI, Prof. Lu has published a series of important works in various high-impact journals targeting broader audience as well as audiences in specialized fields, such as in Nature Communications, iScience, Applied Energy, Patterns, Journal of Power Sources.