Babu Chalamala (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.Tech. degree in electronics and communications engineering from Sri Venkateswara University and the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of North Texas. He is Head of the Energy Storage Technology and Systems Department and Program Manager for grid energy storage at Sandia National Laboratories. Prior to joining Sandia in 2015, he was a Corporate Fellow of MEMC Electronic Materials, where he led research and development, and product development in grid scale energy storage for five years. Before that, he founded two startup companies commercializing large format lithium batteries and digital X-ray sources. Earlier, he was a Research Staff Member at Motorola and Texas Instruments, where he made contributions to the development of materials and device technologies for flat panel displays and microelectronics.
Dr. Chalamala is a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences, St. Louis, a Life Member of the Electrochemical Society, and a member of the Materials Research Society. He is Chair of Energy Storage and Stationary Battery Committee of IEEE Power and Energy Society. He was a Guest Editor of the MRS Bulletin, The Proceedings of the IEEE, and the IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. He has served on the Editorial Board of The Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Access
, IEEE Journal of Display Technology and Energy Storage. He was a recipient of the 2015 James Eads Award from the Academy of Sciences, St. Louis.