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Yu Kambe

  • Alumni

Yu Kambe received his BS in materials science and engineering from Cornell University in spring 2013. He is now working toward his PhD in molecular engineering at the University of Chicago under the mentorship of Professor Paul Nealey. As an undergraduate, Yu worked under Professor Lynden Archer on high rate electrode materials for Li-ion and Li-metal batteries while holding the president position for the Cornell chapter of the Materials Research Society. In 2013, following graduation, he joined a Silicon Valley startup company called C3Nano Inc. as a lead project engineer, developing next generation transparent conducting films. In the fall of 2014, he joined the Institute for Molecular Engineering (now the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering) as one of the inaugural PhD students, bringing with him over seven years of cumulative industry experience.