About Yet-Ming Chiang
Yet-Ming Chiang is a co-founder of Propel Aero. The company works on a sodium-air fuel cell. Its goal is a REDOX engine that offers more than 1,000 watt-hours per kilogram at cost parity with jet fuel. The Department of Energy awarded Propel Aero about $1 million in February 2024. Chiang is also Kyocera Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, where his research group works on materials and devices for electrochemical storage. He is co-founder and chief scientist at Form Energy.
Earlier, Chiang co-founded Desktop Metal, 24M Technologies, A123 Systems and American Superconductor. He has been on the MIT faculty since 1985. He holds a bachelor's degree from MIT in materials science and engineering, earned in 1980. His doctorate, in ceramics, followed in 1985. The National Academy of Engineering elected him a member in 2009. He is also a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society and the Materials Research Society.
Experience
This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Yet-Ming Chiang in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.
Key Colleagues at Startups
The people Yet-Ming Chiang works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.
