Hamid Seyf received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He worked with co-advisors, Dr. Vilas Pol, Professor of Chemical Engineering, and Dr. Partha Mukherjee, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, to suppress lithium dendrites in Li-S batteries. His research interests included grid-scale energy conversion and storage, atomistic level modeling and simulation of thermal transport in various materials, solid-state energy conversion, and energy storage technologies. Dr. Seyf is currently employed in the Silicon Engineering Group at Apple as an SOC Thermal Engineer.