Dr Hieu Duong

Hieu Duong is the Chief Manufacturing Officer at AM Batteries. Duong is an interdisciplinary engineer with over 20 years of experience in technology development and industrialization. With a Ph.D. in Chemistry from UCLA, he advanced membrane technologies at GE and led battery innovations at Quallion and Zpower, where he led the development of composite separators to enable robust cycling of silver-zinc rechargeable batteries. At Maxwell Technologies, he developed the Dry Battery Electrode (DBE) process, a move that caught Tesla’s attention, leading to an acquisition in 2019. As Tesla’s Director of Electrode Engineering, Duong championed the DBE’s commercialization. Now, at AM Batteries, he’s leading the development and commercialization of low-cost lithium-ion battery manufacturing techniques.