About us

BattGenie was started from the labs of Prof. Venkat Subramanian at the University of Washington. With offices and lab space in Seattle and Austin, and an all-star team with over 100 years of cumulative experience in the energy storage technologies, BattGenie is changing the landscape of clean energy with a new paradigm of software. BattGenie has access to a sophisticated state-of-the-art battery testing equipment including high current and high voltage battery and battery-module cyclers at Seattle and Austin.

Management Team

Venkat Subramanian
CTO, Chief Scientific Advisor, and Co-Founder
Manan Pathak
CEO and Co-Founder
Chintan Pathak
CPO and Co-Founder
Michael Waller
Director of Business Development and Sales
Dr. Suryanarayana Kolluri
Battery Controls Expert
Zander Nevitt
Hardware and Data Engineer

Meet Our Advisory Board

In its mission, BattGenie is supported by a world-class advisory board. They use their expertise and experience to guide us and help us make better decisions about our technology and business.

Dr. Robert Spotnitz
Technical Advisor & Board Member
Dr. Ramkumar Krishnan
Technical & Business Advisor
Dr. Richard Braatz
Technical Advisor
Dr. Shriram Santhanagopalan
Technical Advisor

Our Investors

Funded by some of the world's leading Cleantech investors, and supported by both federal and provincial government agencies.

Venkat Subramanian

CTO, Chief Scientific Advisor, and Co-Founder

Prof. Venkat Subramanian is currently the Ernest Dashiell Cockrell II Professor of Mechanical & Material Science Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin.

His research interests include energy systems engineering, electrochemical engineering, computationally efficient algorithms for state-of-charge (SOC) and state-of-health (SOH) estimation of lithium-ion batteries, multiscale simulation, and design of energetic materials, kinetic Monte Carlo methods, model-based battery management system for electric transportation, and renewable microgrids and nonlinear model predictive control. Prof. Subramanian was awarded the Dean’s award for excellence in graduate study in 2001 for his doctoral research.

He is a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society and a past Technical Editor of the Journal of the Electrochemical Society. He was also the chair of the IEEE Division of the Electrochemical Society. His codes for Lithium-ion batteries are the fastest reported in the literature and his algorithm for solving index 1 nonlinear DAEs is the most robust compared to any other algorithm reported as of today.

Prof. Subramanian received his B.Tech. degree in Chemical and Electrochemical Engineering from the Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI), Karaikudi, India, in 1997 and the Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA, in 2001.

Manan Pathak

CEO and Co-Founder

Dr. Manan Pathak is the CEO and Co-Founder of BattGenie.

He earned his PhD from the University of Washington and he obtained his graduate thesis on model-based battery management systems. He has over 7 publications, and an extensive experience of physics-based battery models, numerical methods and deriving optimal model-based charging profiles.

Chintan Pathak

CPO and Co-Founder

Dr. Chintan Pathak is the Co-Founder and CPO of BattGenie.

He earned his PhD from the University of Washington and he obtained his graduate thesis on optimal locations of battery charging stations for the state of WA. He has over 13 years of experience on software engineering and embedded systems.

Michael Waller

Director of Business Development and Sales

Michael received an Associates Degree from Georgia Military College, studied computer science at Franklin Pierce College, completed a Bachelor’s in Business at Kennedy Western University, and completed an MBA at Warren National University, with a thesis on the Failure of Japanese Production Methodologies in Western Cultures.

Michael has a diverse background including instructor duty at the US Navy Guided Missiles School, a strong entrepreneurial spirit which led to the establishment of three commercial ventures, and he holds three product design patents.

Having worked with two of the most recognized names in the battery industry, he has significant experience leading cross-functional teams in international settings. He has been involved with the evolving landscape of Lithium batteries for the past twenty-five years and has served on standards committees such as the RTCA SC-225 and SAE International AE-7B. In the role of Business Development lead, he has served as technical advisor to many of the leading OEM and Tier One suppliers in the commercial and defense sectors of the aerospace community and has served as a subject matter expert for technical panel discussions with the FAA.

Dr. Suryanarayana Kolluri

Battery Controls Expert

Dr. Suryanarayana Kolluri is the Battery Controls Expert at BattGenie and currently working as a Research Associate at UT Austin.

He obtained his PhD from IIT Bombay and worked as a postdoctoral associate at the Maple Lab in UW Seattle. He is an expert in parameter identification and control algorithms using physics-based battery models.

Zander Nevitt

Hardware and Data Engineer

Dr. Robert Spotnitz

Technical Advisor & Board Member

Dr. Ramkumar Krishnan

Technical & Business Advisor

Dr. Richard Braatz

Technical Advisor

Dr. Shriram Santhanagopalan

Technical Advisor