Jim Jian-Ping Zheng is an electrical engineer and professor with expertise in energy systems.
Zheng is a SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University at Buffalo, [1] Before moving to SUNY-Buffalo, he was the Sprint Eminent Scholar Chair in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Florida State University. [2] and a researcher at the Army Research Laboratory. [1]
A researcher on the design, manufacture and uses nanomaterials in the energy area, Zheng holds the patent on a buckypaper polymer fuel cell production technique that is licensed to Bing Energy. [3] [4]
Zheng was elected to the National Academy of Inventors in 2015. [1] In 2024 he was named as a Fellow of the IEEE "for his contributions to energy storage technologies". [5]