Left to right: Joseph Lucero, Aiden Miao, Colin Chu, Simone Fasolato, Simona Onori
This summer, the Stanford Energy Control Lab hosted two high school students, Colin Chu and Aiden Miao. Aiden joined the lab this summer as part of the 2025 Young Investigators cohort (the Stanford Young Investigators Program which gives local high school students the opportunity to get involved in research at Stanford). He brought great energy and curiosity to his project, working under the mentorship of PhD student Joseph Lucero. A fun fact: Aiden visited the lab last year and gave a presentation, together with his twin sister, on a book he authored titled Everything Tesla: From How They Work to How Fast They Go and All the Fun In Between!
Colin is in his second year with the lab. He first joined as part of the 2024 Young Investigators Program and has continued contributing since. This summer, he worked closely with postdoc Dr. Simone Fasolato on battery health estimation. A notable achievement: Colin recently had his first journal article accepted for publication in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society. The paper focuses on State of Health estimation using a hybrid modeling approach that combines electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and machine learning. His older brother also participated in the same program in Prof. Onori’s lab in 2018, and is now a senior at Harvard.
The Young Investigators Program, organized by the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, provides students with hands-on research experience, exposure to technical seminars, and mentorship from Stanford researchers. It also offers valuable leadership and mentoring opportunities for the graduate students and postdocs involved.
We’re proud of everything Aiden and Colin accomplished this summer and excited to see where their academic journeys take them next.
