Education
June
1992 Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA. Major: Heat Transfer; Minor: Optoelectronics. Advisor: Markus I. Flik.
July
1985 M.S., Engineering Thermophysics, University of Science and Technology of
China (USTC), Hefei, P.R. China. Advisor: Xin-Shi Ge.
July
1982 B.S.,
Engineering Thermophysics, USTC, Hefei, P.R. China.
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Experience
7/07-present Professor, G. W. Woodruff School
of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
8/02-6/07 Associate
Professor, G. W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute
of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
9/95-8/02 Assistant
Professor (9/95-8/00), Associate Professor (8/00-8/02), Department of
Mechanical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
9/92-8/95 Guest
Scientist and Project Leader, Optical Technology Division, National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD; also Research
Associate, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
9/89-8/92 Graduate
Research Assistant (9/89-5/92) and Research Associate (6/92-8/92), Cryogenic
Engineering Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT.
9/82-8/89 Graduate
Research Assistant (9/82-5/85), Research Assistant (6/85-10/87), and Lecturer
(11/87-8/89), Department of Engineering Thermophysics, USTC.
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Honors
Societal
Service and Leadership
· Chair (2000-03), ASME K18 Committee on Low Temperature Heat Transfer.
· Chair
(2009-2012), ASME HTD K7 Committee on Thermophysical Properties; also
Vice-Chair (2009-2012), ASME/AIChE Joint Committee
on Thermophysical Properties.
· Founding Chair
(2012-2015), ASME HTD K9 Committee on Nanoscale Thermal
Transport.
·
Member (2006-2015), Touloukian
Award Committee, ASME.
· Member (since 2014), Scientific Council of the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT).
· President
(2018-2020) & Vice-President (2016-2018), Georgia Tech Chapter of Sigma Xi.
· Member
(2020-2022), Board Member, Nukiyama Memorial Award, the Heat Transfer Society of Japan.
Editorship
· Lead Guest
Editor (with M. Pinar Menguc) of a special issue on
Nano/microscale Radiative Transfer in ASME Journal
of Heat Transfer (Vol. 129, January 2007).
· Lead Guest Editor (with P.M. Norris and G.P.
Peterson) Special
Issue on Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer, Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 135, September 2013.
· Lead Guest Editor (with S. Maruyama, A. Sakurai, and M. P. Mengüç) Special Issue on Micro- and Nano-Scale Radiative
Transfer, Journal of Quantitative
Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, Vol. 132, January
2014.
· Lead Guest Editor (with L.H. Liu, Q.Z. Zhu, and M. P. Mengüç) Special Issue on the Second International Workshop on Micro- and Nano-Scale Thermal Radiation , Journal of Quantitative
Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, Vol. 158, June
2015.
·
Lead Guest Editor (with C. Yang and D.Y. Tzou) Special
Issue on Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer, Journal of Heat Transfer, Part I, Vol. 139, May 2017 & Part II, Vol. 140, January 2018.
· Co-Guest Editor (with C.Y. Zhao and X. Zhang) Special Issue: Nanotechnology in Energy, Frontiers in Energy, Vol. 12, February 2018.
· Co-Guest Editor (with H.B. Ma and Y. Jaluria) Special Issue on Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer, Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 142, p. 070301, 2020.
· Associate
Editor, Journal
of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, since January
2007. Publisher: Elsevier.
· Associated
Editor, Journal
of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer (2007-2012; 2018-present).
Publisher: AIAA.
· Member
on the Editorial Board (2007-2012) and Associate Editor (2013-2015), International Journal
of Thermophysics. Publisher: Springer.
· Member
on the Editorial Board, Frontiers
in Energy, since January 2009. Publisher: Springer.
· Member
on the Editorial Board, Emerging Materials
Research, since January 2012. Publisher: ICE Publishing.
· Associated
Editor, Journal of Heat Transfer
(2012-2018). Publisher: ASME.
· Co-Editor-in-Chief (with V. Prasad and Y. Jaluria), Annual Review of Heat Transfer (2019-). Publisher: Begell House.
Conference
Organizers
· Technical
Program Chair, 37th AIAA Thermophysics Conference, Portland, OR, June
28 July 1, 2004 (handled over 120 abstracts and papers)..
· Co-Chair
(Program Chair), 2nd Integration and Commercialization of Micro
and Nanosystems Int’l Conference and Exhibition,
Hong Kong, China, June 3-5, 2008 (over 200 attendees).
· Vice-Chair
(Solids), 17th Symposium on Thermophysical Properties, Boulder, CO,
June 21-26, 2009 (over 560 attendees)..
· Program Chair, 3rd ASME
Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer International Conference (MNHMT2012), Atlanta, GA, March 3-6, 2012. (over 320 atendees).
· Co-Chair
(Local Organizer), NSF/ONR Workshop on Nano/Microscale
Heat & Mass Transport, Atlanta, GA, March 4, 2012 (over 70 attendees)..
· Co-Chair
(with Shigenao Maruyama), International
Workshop on Nano-Micro Thermal Radiation, Matsushima Bay Area, Miyagi, Japan, May 23-25, 2012.
· Chair
(with Q.Z. Zhu and L.H. Liu), Second International
Workshop on Nano-Micro Thermal Radiation, Shanghai,
China, June 6-9, 2014 (over 80 attendees).
· Conference General Chair, 5th ASME Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer International Conference, Singapore, January 4-6, 2016 (over 300 attendees).
Keynote
Speeches and Invited Presentations/Participants
· Invited Participant
of the National Academy of Engineering Seventh Symposium on Frontiers of
Engineering, March 1-3, 2002, Beckman Center in Irvine, CA.
· Invited
Panelist (with travel support), NSF Workshop on Frontiers in Transport
Phenomena Research and Education, U. Connecticut, Storrs, CT, May 17-18,
2007.
· Keynote Speaker, Chinese Society of Engineering
Thermophysics - Heat and Mass Transfer Annual Meeting, Zhengzhou, China,
November 1-4, 2008.
· Keynote Speaker, the Ninth
Asian Thermophysical Properties Conference (ATPC2010), Beijing, China,
October 19-22, 2010.
· Keynote Speaker, 4th ASME Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass
Transfer International Conference (MNHMT 2013), Hong Kong, China,
December 11-14, 2013.
·
Keynote Speaker, 8th US-Japan Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena - Science
and Engineering, Santa Cruz, CA, July 13-16, 2014.
· Keynote Speaker, 2nd Micro/Nanoscale Heat Transfer and Energy Workshop, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, July 1, 2015.
· Keynote Speaker, Fourth International Conference on Computational Methods for Thermal Problems, Atlanta, GA, July 6-8, 2016.
· Keynote Speaker, Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2016), Shanghai, China, August 8-11, 2016.
· Keynote Speaker, 9th International Symposium on Heat Transfer (ISHT-9), Beijing, China, August 15-19, 2016.
· Plenary Speaker, First Asian Conference on Thermal Sciences (1st ACTS 2017), Jeju Island, South Korea, March 26-30, 2017.
· Plenary Speaker, 3rd International Workshop on Nano-Micro Thermal Radiation (NanoRad2017), Daejoen, South Korea, June 26-28, 2017.
· Keynote Speaker, International Symposium on Measurement Technology in Thermal Science and Engineering (MTTSE), Dalian, China, November 10-13, 2017.
· Keynote/Plenary Speaker, 6th ASME International Conference of Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer (MNHMT 2019), Dalian, China, July 8-10.
Awards
· Interdisciplinary
Research Initiative (IRI) Award, University of Florida, 1996.
· Outstanding
Teacher Award from Pi Tau Sigma Honor Society of Mechanical
Engineering Undergraduate Students, 1997.
· Junior
Faculty Research Award from the UF Chapter of Sigma Xi, 1999.
· 1999
Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the
White House; and 1999 CAREER Award, NSF.
· 2000
ASME Heat Transfer Division Best Paper Award.
· 2005
AIAA Thermophysics Best Paper Award.
· Advisor
of Bong Jae Lee, recipient of the Georgia Tech Chapter Sigma Xi Best Ph.D.
Thesis Award, 2008.
· Advisor
of Soumyadipta Basu,
recipient of the Georgia Tech Chapter Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, 2010.
· Advisor
of Trevor Bright, recipient of the Georgia Tech Chapter Sigma Xi Best M.S.
Thesis Award, 2010.
· 2010
ICHMT Hartnett-Irvine Award.
· 2015 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award (Science Category).
· Advisor
of Xianglei Liu, recipient of the Georgia Tech Chapter Sigma Xi Best Ph.D.
Thesis Award, 2017.
· Co-Advisor
of Eric J. Tervo,
recipient of the Georgia Tech Chapter Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, 2020.
Other
Honor
· Guest
Professor, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 2009-2012.
· Overseas Scholar, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai, 2012-2014.
· Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Oversees Expert, Beijing, 2015-2018.
· Guest Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 2017-2020.
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Fellow and Membership
· Fellow,
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), since 2005.
· Fellow,
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), since 2010.
· Fellow,
American Physical Society (APS), since 2015.
· Associate
Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
· Member,
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
· Member,
Sigma Xi The Scientific Research Society.
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