Tingzheng Hou

Dr. Tingzheng Hou is currently an Associate Professor at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the data- and AI-driven design of novel energy storage materials, with a particular emphasis on solid-state battery materials. He has authored or co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed research papers in Nature, etc., with a total citation of over 9,000. He has received the First-Class Natural Science Award from the Ministry of Education of China (2019) and the China Top Cited Author Award from IOP Publishing (2018). He has been selected for the Guangdong Outstanding Young Scholar Program and Shenzhen Municipal Talent Program. He is a leading PI of two NSFC projects and actively contributes to the Materials Project.

Aug. 2016 - Sept. 2021, Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Sept. 2014 - Jun. 2016, Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tsinghua University, China

Sept. 2010 - Jul. 2014, B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, China

2026 - present, Associate Professor, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, China

2022 - 2025, Assistant Professor, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, China

2021 - 2022, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Materials Genome Engineering Advances, Early Career Researcher Editorial Board Member;

Energy Materials and Devices, Youth Editorial Board Member;

Nat. Catal., Nat. Commun. J. Am. Chem. Soc. Adv. Mater., etc., Peer Reviewer

Artificial Intelligence for Materials Science (In Chinese, , 85991433, Fall, 3 Units)

Techniques in Computational Materials Science (In Full English, 86000943, Spring, 3 Units)

[1] High-Throughput Computation Infrastructures and High-quality Materials Datasets

[2] Modeling and Mechanistic Study of Energy Materials

[3] Interface and Interphase in Energy Materials

[4] Predictive and Generative Models for Energy Materials

[5] AI Agents for Materials Science Research

[1] NSFC Major Research Plan (Fostering Program), 2025-2027, PI

[2] NSFC Young Scientist Fund (Type C), 2025-2027, PI

[3] Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (General Project), 2025-2027, PI

[4] Shenzhen Fundamental research program (General Project), 2025-2027, PI

[1] Jinshuo Mi, Jun Yang, Likun Chen, Wenting Cui, Yuhang Li, Xufei An, Jiabin Ma, Ke Yang, Yaoshu Xie, Jie Biao, Yu Long, Huilin Ge, Bing Han, Ruohong Ke, Guanyou Xiao, Shendong Tan, Danfeng Zhang, Xing Cheng, Tingzheng Hou*, Yan-Fei Huang, Ming Liu, Wei Lv*, Lin Gan, Yan-Bing He*, Quan-Hong Yang*, Feiyu Kang*. A ductile solid electrolyte interphase for solid-state batteries, Nature, 2025, 647(8088): 86–92.

[2] Bochun Liang, Xueyan Huang, Shendong Tan, Tairan Wang, Chaoyuan Ji, Ting Si, Xi-Yao Li, Hao Chen, Yaoshu Xie, Lu Jiang, Chen-Zi Zhao*, Jun Fan*, Tingzheng Hou*, Qiang Zhang. Discontinuous Coordination Boosting Ion Transport in Solid Polymer Electrolytes. Energy Environ. Sci., 2026, doi: 10.1039/D5EE05901A.

[3] Yaoshu Xie, Jun Yang, Yun Cao, Wei Lv, Yan-Bing He, Lu Jiang*, Tingzheng Hou*. InterOptimus: an AI-assisted robust workflow for screening ground-state heterogeneous interface structures in lithium batteries. J. Energy Chem., 2025, 106: 631–641.

[4] Junhong Liao, Hao Chen, Yaoshu Xie, Zihui Li, Shendong Tan, Shuyu Zhou, Lu Jiang, Xiang Zhang, Ming Liu, Yan‐Bing He, Feiyu Kang, Zhengyan Lun*, Shixi Zhao*, Tingzheng Hou*. Modeling Short‐Range Order in High‐Entropy Cation‐Disordered Rocksalt‐Type Cathodes. Adv. Energy Mater., 2025, 15(32): 2501857.

[5] Jiajing Chen, Lu Jiang, Shendong Tan, Jun Yang, Zihui Li, Chen Bai, Xiang Zhang, Rongao Li, Yaoshu Xie, Ming Liu, Yan-Bing He, Tingzheng Hou*. Machine-learning-aided screening of inorganic lithium solid-state electrolytes with a wide electrochemical window. J. Mater. Chem. A 2025, 13(29): 23445–23453.

[6] Shendong Tan, Bochun Liang, Dexin Lu, Chaoyuan Ji, Wenke Ji, Zihui Li, Tingzheng Hou*. PEMD: a high-throughput simulation and analysis framework for solid polymer electrolytes. Digit. Discov., 2026, 5(1): 193–202.

[7] Zihui Li, Shendong Tan, Chaoyuan Ji, Junhong Liao, Yaoshu Xie, Lu Jiang, Tingzheng Hou*. Reinforcing Transformer-Based Polymer Electrolyte Discovery through High-Fidelity Fine-Tuning and Application-Oriented Screening. Mater. Today Energy, 2026, 57: 102238.

[8] Yanfei Zhu, Zhoujie Lao, Mengtian Zhang, Tingzheng Hou*, Xiao Xiao, Zhihong Piao, Gongxun

Lu, Zhiyuan Han, Runhua Gao, Lu Nie, Xinru Wu, Yanze Song, Chaoyuan Ji, Jian Wang, Guangmin Zhou*. A locally solvent-tethered polymer electrolyte for long-life lithium metal batteries, Nat.

Commun., 2024, 15(1): 3914.

[9] Yang Zhao, Yuetao Ma, Jun Yang, Likun Chen, Shaoke Guo, Cheng Jiang, Yuhang Li, Xufei An, Guixiao Shang, Boyu Li, Zonghan Fu, Xing Cheng*, Tingzheng Hou*, Yan‐Bing He*. Adv. Mater. 2026, 38(7): e15687.

[10] Jingyang Wang, Sarah L Guillot, Monica L Usrey, Tingzheng Hou*, Kristin A Persson*. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147(10): 8841–8851.

[11] Shaoke Guo, Shendong Tan, Jiabin Ma, Likun Chen, Ke Yang, Qiannan Zhu, Yuetao Ma, Peiran Shi, Yinping Wei, Xufei An, Qingkang Ren, Yanfei Huang, Yingman Zhu, Ye Cheng, Wei Lv, Tingzheng Hou*, Ming Liu*, Yan-Bing He*, Quan-Hong Yang, Feiyu Kang*. Dissociation mechanism of lithium salt by BaTiO3 with spontaneous polarization. Energy Environ. Sci. 2024, 17(21): 3797–3806.

[12] Chen Bai, Yuhang Li, Guanyou Xiao, Jiajing Chen, Shendong Tan, Peiran Shi, Tingzheng Hou*, Ming Liu*, Yan-Bing He*, Feiyu Kang*. Chem. Rev., 2025, 125(14): 6541–6608.

[13] Tingzheng Hou.*; Wentao Xu*. Deep dive into anionic metal–organic frameworks based quasi-solid-state electrolytes. J. Energy Chem. 2023, 81: 313–320.

[14] Tingzheng Hou#, Wentao Xu#, Xiaokun Pei, Lu Jiang, Omar M. Yaghi*, Kristin A. Persson*. Ionic Conduction Mechanism and Design of Metal−Organic Framework Based Quasi-Solid-State Electrolytes. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, 144(30): 13446–13450.

[15] Tingzheng Hou.*; Xiang Chen, Lu Jiang, Cheng Tang*. Advances and Atomistic Insights of Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion Batteries and Beyond. J. Electrochem. 2022, 28(11): 2219007.

Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad (2022)

First-class Award of Natural Science, China Ministry of Education (2019)

China Top Cited Author Award, IOP Publishing (2018)