In 2013, he was selected into the "New Century Outstanding Talents" support program of the Ministry of Education. National Natural Science Foundation review expert, Zhejiang Province Natural Science Foundation review expert. Angewandte Chemie, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Nano Energy and more than 30 international journal reviewers.
He has taught the undergraduate professional courses "Environmental Monitoring", "Modern instrument Analysis Technology", "Professional comprehensive skills Training"; Master master specialized course "Energy Materials and Technology Engineering Experiment"; Participate in the teaching of the undergraduate professional course "Progress Report". Guided students' extracurricular science and technology activities to win the second prize of the National "Internet +" college Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition in Beijing, and the second prize of the inorganic non-metallic materials competition of the Seventh Materials Innovation Competition for College students in Guangdong Province. He has presided over the national 863 program, the National Natural Science Foundation, the national basic research and development, the national major projects and other projects, and participated in the national 973 project, the key projects of Beijing Nature Foundation and many other projects. As the main completed person, he won the first prize of science and technology of China Non-Ferrous Metals Industry Association and the second prize of Invention and innovation of China Invention Association and other provincial and ministerial awards. In the following items: Adv. Mater., Energy Environ. Sci., Adv. Energy Mater., Adv. Func. Mater., Adv. Sci., Nano Energy, Small, More than 150 SCI papers have been published in academic journals such as Energy Storage Mater., J. Mater. Chem. More than 60 national invention patents have been applied for, and more than 30 have been authorized.

He is mainly engaged in the research of advanced secondary battery key materials, lightweight hydrogen storage materials and other new energy storage materials, including lithium/sodium ion battery oxide, polyanionic, silicon-based, carbon-based electrode materials, gel state and solid electrolyte, as well as electrode and electrolyte interface stability, battery thermal analysis and thermal safety and other basic scientific issues.

From 2002 to 2003, he majored in Applied Chemistry at Beijing Institute of Technology.
1997-2000, Master of Science, Department of Chemistry, Northeastern University.
1993-1997, Department of Applied Chemistry, Harbin Institute of Technology, Bachelor degree.

He has been teaching at Beijing Institute of Technology since 2003.
2014-2015 Visiting Scholar at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA.
Visiting Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory, USA, 2015.

1.Xin Feng, Ying Bai*, Mingquan Liu, Ying Li, Haoyi Yang, Xinran Wang, Chuan Wu*, Untangling the respective effects of heteroatom-doped carbon materials in batteries, supercapacitors and the ORR to design high performance materials, Energy Environ. Sci., 2021, 14, 2036-2089.
2.Ruiqi Dong, Lumin Zheng, Ying Bai*, Qiao Ni, Yu Li, Feng Wu, Haixia Ren, Chuan Wu*, Elucidating the mechanism of fast Na storage kinetics in ether electrolytes for hard carbon anodes, Adv. Mater., 2021, 2008810.
3.Zhaohua Wang, Xin Feng, Ying Bai*, Haoyi Yang, Ruiqi Dong, Xinran Wang, Huajie Xu, Qiyu Wang, Hong Li, Hongcai Gao*, Chuan Wu*, Probing the energy storage mechanism of quasi-metallic Na in hard carbon for sodium-ion batteries, Adv. Energy Mater., 2021, 11, 2003854.
4. 5.Mingquan Liu, Feng Wu, Lumin Zheng, Xin Feng, Ying Li, Yu Li, Ying Bai*, Chuan Wu*, Nature‐inspired porous multichannel carbon monolith: Molecular cooperative enables sustainable production and high‐performance capacitive energy storage, InfoMat, 2021, 3, 1154-1170.
6.Minghao Zhang, Yu Li, Feng Wu, Zhaohua Wang, Ying Bai*, Chuan Wu*, Boosting the ultrahigh initial coulombic efficiency of porous carbon anodes for sodium-ion batteries via in situ fabrication of a passivation interface, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2021, 9, 10780-10788.
7.Qiao Ni, Heng Jiang, Sean Sandstrom, Ying Bai*, Haixia Ren, Xianyong Wu, Qiubo Guo, Dongxu Yu, Chuan Wu*, Xiulei Ji*, A Na3V2(PO4)2O1.6F1.4 cathode of Zn-ion battery enabled by a water-in-bisalt electrolyte, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2020, 30, 2003511.
8.Zhaohua Wang, Haoyi Yang, Yiran Liu, Ying Bai*, Guanghai Chen, Ying Li, Xinran Wang, Huajie Xu, Chuan Wu*, Jun Lu*, Analysis of the stable interphase responsible for the excellent electrochemical performance of graphite electrodes in sodium-ion batteries, Small, 2020, 16, 2003268.
9.Qiao Ni, Ruiqi Dong, Ying Bai*, Zhaohua Wang, Haixia Ren, Sandstrom Sean, Feng Wu, Huajie Xu, Chuan Wu*, Superior sodium-storage behavior of flexible anatase TiO2 promoted by oxygen vacancies, Energy Storage Mater., 2020, 25, 903-911.
10.Minghao Zhang, Yu Li, Feng Wu, Ying Bai*, Chuan Wu*, Boost sodium-ion batteries to commercialization: Strategies to enhance initial Coulombic efficiency of hard carbon anode, Nano Energy, 2020, 105738.
11.Guanghai Chen, Lin Ye*, Kun Zhang, Ming Gao, Hang Lu, Huajie Xu, Ying Bai*, Chuan Wu*, Hyperbranched polyether boosting ionic conductivity of polymer electrolytes for all-solid-state sodium ion batteries, Chem. Eng. J., 2020, 394, 124885.
12.Guanghai Chen, Kun Zhang, Yiran Liu, Lin Ye*, Yongsheng Gao, Weiran Lin, Huajie Xu, Xinran Wang, Ying Bai*, Chuan Wu*, Flame-retardant gel polymer electrolyte and interface for quasi-solid-state sodium ion batteries, Chem. Eng. J., 2020, 401, 126065.
13.Yu Li, Yifei Yuan, Ying Bai*, Yuanchang Liu, Zhaohua Wang, Limin Li, Feng Wu, Khalil Amine, Chuan Wu*, and Jun Lu*, Insights into the Na+ Storage Mechanism of Phosphorus‐Functionalized Hard Carbon as Ultrahigh Capacity Anodes. Adv. Energy Mater. 2018, 1702781.
14.Feng Wu, Na Zhu, Ying Bai*, Yu Li, Zhaohua Wang, Qiao Ni, Huali Wang, Chuan Wu*, Unveil The Mechanism of Solid Electrolyte Interphase on Na3V2(PO4)3 Formed by A Novel NaPF6/BMITFSI Ionic Liquid Electrolyte. Nano Energy, 2018, 51, 524-532.
15.Qiao Ni, Ying Bai*, Yu Li, Liming Ling, Limin Li, Guanghai Chen, Zhaohua Wang, Haixia Ren, Feng Wu, and Chuan Wu*, 3D Electronic Channels Wrapped Large‐Sized Na3V2(PO4)3 as Flexible Electrode for Sodium‐Ion Batteries. Small, 2018, 1702864.
16.Hui Li, Hanmei Tang, Chuze Ma, Ying Bai*, Judith Alvarado, Balachandran Radhakrishnan, Shyue Ping Ong*, Feng Wu, Ying Shirley Meng* and Chuan Wu*, Understanding the Electrochemical Mechanisms Induced by Gradient Mg2+ Distribution of Na-Rich Na3+xV2−xMgx(PO4)3/C for Sodium Ion Batteries, Chem. Mater. 2018, 30, 2498−2505. 17.Q. Ni, Y. Bai, F. Wu, C. Wu, Polyanion-Type Electrode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries, Adv. Sci. 2017, 1600275.
18.H.L. Wang, X.X. Bi, Y. Bai, C. Wu, S.C. Gu, S. Chen, F. Wu, K. Amine, J. Lu, Open-structured V2O5·nH2O nanoflakes as highly reversible cathode material for monovalent and multivalent intercalation batteries, Adv. Energy Mater. 2017, 1602720.
19.Y. Bai, X.Z. Zhou, C. Zhan, L. Ma, Y.F. Yuan, C. Wu, M.Z. Chen, G.H. Chen, Q. Ni, F. Wu, R. Shahbazian-Yassar, T.P. Wu, J. Lu, K. Amine, 3D Hierarchical nano-flake/micro-flower iron fluoride with hydration water induced tunnels for secondary lithium battery cathodes, Nano Energy 2017, 32, 10-18.
20.H. Li, X.Q. Yu, Y. Bai, F. Wu, C. Wu, L.Y. Liu, X.Q. Yang, Effects of Mg doping on the remarkably enhanced electrochemical performance of Na3V2(PO4)3 cathode materials for sodium ion batteries, J. Mater. Chem. A 2015, 3, 9578-9586
21.Y. Bai, X.Z. Zhou, Z. Jia, C. Wu, L.W. Yang, M.Z. Chen, H. Zhao, F. Wu, G. Liu, Understanding the combined effects of microcrystal growth and band gap reduction for Fe(1-x)TixF3 nanocomposites as cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries, Nano Energy 2015, 17, 140-151.