Dr. Mei Cai is currently serving as the Senior Director of Battery Electrochemistry and Analytics at Fluence, a Siemens and AES company. She was the Director of Battery Materials and Systems Research at General Motors Global Research and Development Center, where she is responsible for innovations in advanced battery technologies for future electric vehicles. Mei has 29 years of industrial R&D experience including extensive experience in novel materials processing for automotive applications. She is the author or co-author of 130+ scientific publications and holds more than 150 issued US patents. Her research has received more than 18,000 citations and has an h-index of 67 (Google Scholar).