Yue Wu recieved his B.S. in chemistry from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2001 and his Ph.D from Harvard University in 2006. He was the Miller Research Fellow in Chemistry from August 2006 to July 2009 at the University of California - Berkeley. Currenlty, Dr. Yue Wu is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. His research focuses on three areas related with renewable energy; energy generation through the fabrication of nanostructure-based thermoelectric materials; energy storage using nanomaterial-based batteries, supercapacitors and thermal storage materials; and other energy conversion, such as photocatalysis.