Stephen Harris

Steve Harris received a BS degree in chemistry from UCLA and a PhD in physical chemistry from Harvard University. After a Miller Post-Doctoral Fellowship at UC Berkeley, he began his career at the General Motors Research Labs. Apart from a 9 year stint at the Ford Scientific Research Labs, Steve worked at GM as a Technical Fellow until 2011, when he was awarded a Miller Visiting Professorship in the UC Berkeley Chemistry
Department. Since then, he has worked in the Materials Science and Energy Storage Divisions at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. During that time, he has been a Visiting Scholar in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Stanford, he has consulted for battery companies, private equity companies, and venture capital companies, and he is on the advisory boards of several battery startups. His most recent interest involves using
machine learning to predict and understand battery durability. His h-index is 75, and he has more than 20,000 citations. Steve has mentored over 50 young scientists (mostly grad students and postdocs) in the past year, talking about career choices, brainstorming, green cards, and anything else.