Haq is a battery researcher at the Energy Storage and Conversion Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He came from Islamabad, the capital of his home country, Pakistan. It is there that he went to college at the College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (CEME), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) for his Bachelor of Engineering in Mechatronics. The combination of Electrical, Electronics, and Mechanical Engineering shaped him into an interdisciplinary engineer. This followed the application of his skill set in the energy sector. He worked in the Oil and Gas drilling and processing before delving into clean energy systems. He did my Master’s thesis in Energy Systems Engineering at Oregon State University on solar energy.

Haq’s engineering and science experience spans a broad range of energy conversion and storage systems, particularly battery components, where he has gained comprehensive, hands-on expertise in electrolyte and electrode synthesis, multi-modal materials characterization, cell assembly in coin, pressure, and pouch formats, and advanced electrochemical testing. During the course of his career, he has been awarded the following: Bredesen Center Fellowship supported by the University of Tennessee (UT) and the United States of America (USA) Department of Energy (DoE) Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL); Topper in energy systems in class, and recipient of silver medal at NUST; awarded USA Fulbright Scholarship (declined); selection in energy research exchange semester program at OSU; granted United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Scholarship Projects, Patents.

He has had the following publications, confernece attendance, and representations: ductile bulk glass electrolytes at the Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA-E) Energy Innovation Summit April 2026; Standardization of cell assembly protocols and cycling of Li metal ASSBs (mutli-national lab publication in progress); Ductile bulk ionic glasses (Patent ANAQUA ID: 81949489); Using lithium-silver alloys to suppress void formation at the lithium metal – solid electrolyte interface in solid state batteries (American Chemical Society (ACS) Energy Letters); Processing of bulk ionic glass (BIG) solid electrolytes through geometric frustration (submission in progress); Processing of bulk ionic glass (BIG) solid electrolytes through geometric frustration (oral presentation at Electrochemical Society (ECS) Spring 2025 Conference, Montreal, QC, Canada); Suppressing void formation at solid-electrolyte|Li interface by improving bulk-self diffusion in Li anode (oral presentation at Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring 2025 Conference, Seattle, WA, USA); Materials discovery of bulk ionic glass (BIG) electrolytes for all solid state batteries (poster presentation at MRS Spring 2025 Conference, Seattle, WA, USA); Deconvolution of critical current density of stripping and plating for all solid state Li metal batteries (poster presentation at Beyond Li Ion (BLI) 2024 Conference, Knoxville, TN, USA); and SolidPAC is an interactive battery-on-demand energy density estimator for solid-state batteries (published in Cell Reports Physical Science 2022).