Phillip Kollmeyer received the BS (2006), MS (2011), and PhD (2015) degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In July of 2023 he started as an assistant professor at McMaster University, where he was a Senior Principal Research Engineer from 2019 to 2023 and a Postdoctoral Research Associate from 2016 to 2019. His research is focused (1) in the battery area – with topics including state estimation, modeling, aging, ultra-fast charging, and thermal management – and (2) on optimizing electric drivetrain efficiency via multi-speed gearboxes, wide bandgap power electronics, and power split control algorithms. Phil has authored and coauthored more than 70 publications, participated in the supervision of more than a dozen graduate students, and created several widely utilized open-source battery datasets and algorithms. From 2018 to 2023, Phil served on the senior organizing committee of the IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference (ITEC) and he was General Chair of the conference in 2023.