Hohyun Lee received his Ph.D in 2009 and is currently an assistant professor at Santa Clara University. His research focused on the transport phenomena in nanocomposites and the enhancement of the thermoelectric properties of SiGe nanocomposites. Hohyun has a B.S.(2003) in mechanical engineering from Seoul National University and an S.M.(2005) in mechanical engineering from MIT.
Asegun Henry received his Ph.D. from MIT in 2009 and will start as an assistant professor in the Woodruff school of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech in 2011. In the interim, Asegun will pursue postdoctoral research on ab initio techniques, such as density functional theory, with Dr. David Singh at Oak Ridge National Labs. While in the nanoengineering group, his research focused on classical molecular dynamics simulations with an emphasis on the development of innovative analysis techiques. Asegun also holds a BS degree in mechanical engineering from Florida A & M University and a MS degree in mechanical engineering from MIT.
Lu Hu received his Ph.D. in 2008 and is currently working for ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company. His research with the NanoEngineering group focused on thermophotovoltaic devices, photon absorption in photovoltaic cells, selective surfaces for solar thermal applications, and other thermal radiation problems. Lu has a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from University of Science and Technology of China. and a M.S. in mechanical engineering from Purdue University.
Vincent Berube received his Ph.D. in 2008 and is currently working for McKinsey and Company. His research at MIT focused on nanoscale thermodynamics and kinetics of hydrogen adsorption. Vince has a B.S. in Physics from Universite Laval (2003).
Aaron has a B.S. (2002), M.S. (2004), and Ph.D. (2008) in mechanical engineering from MIT. He is a recipient of the Warren M. Rohsenow Fellowship from the Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT, and graduate research fellowships from the NSF and Department of Defense. His Ph.D. research was on the development of ultrafast optical methods for characterizing thermal transport in solids, liquids and nanostructures. Aaron will be joining the faculty at Boston University after a collaboration with the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MIST) in Abu Dhabi and a post-doc at the University of Michigan.
Arvind received his Ph.D. in 2007 and is currently an assistant professor at Columbia University. Arvind has a B.S. from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras (1997) and an M.S. from the University of Delaware (1999). He worked at Microstrategy, Inc. from 1999-2001 before joining the NanoEngineering Group in January 2001. Arvind's research interests include:
- Thermal radiation transport in nanoscale structures
- Near field effects due to surface polaritons
- Spectrally selective emitters
- Modeling thermal radiation phenomena using dyadic Green's function methods
- Experimental investigation of near field phenomena.
Zony Chen graduated with a Ph.D. in the summer of 2007. His research focused on surface polaritons and their application to nano-optics and nanoscale thin film thermal conductivity. Zony is currently working for McKinsey & Company.
Erik is a Lieutenant in the United Stated Coast Guard. He received a masters degree in 2007 for his work on the thermal conductivity of stretched polymers.
Chris Dames earned his Ph.D. in 2006. His research concerned thermal properties and applications of nanotubes and nanowires. Chris published work on both theoretical properties of nanowires [1,2] and experimental measurements of their properties [3,4]. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of California, Riverside.
Jack Ma graduated with an M.S. in 2006. His masters research focused on the experimental characterization of nanofluids.
Ronggui Yang graduated with a Ph.D. in 2005. His research was primarily focused on the theoretical modeling of phonon transport in nanotructures. Ronggui is currently an assistant professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Fardad Hashemi received his Ph.D. in 2005. His thesis was on the development of the nanotweezers.
Jim Cybulski received an M.S. in 2004 for his work on roll-up structures for electromagnetic metamaterials. He then spent a year at Intel before going to Stanford to pursue his Ph.D.
Bao Yang graduated in 2004 with a Ph.D. Bao did research on phonon transport and thermoelectrics. He is currently an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Maryland
Ashish Shah graduated with an M.S. in 2003. His thesis was on the development of nano-gap structures for thermophotovoltaics.
Jianping Fu received his M.S. in 2003. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in the Micro/Nanofluidic BioMEMS Group at MIT.
Diana Borca-Tasciuc graduated with a Ph.D. in 2005. Her research was focused on the thermal properties of nanocomposites. She joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's mechanical engineering department as an assistant professor in 2006.
Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc received his Ph.D. in 2000, focusing on nanoscale heat transfer and energy conversion. He joined the Rensselaer faculty as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in 2001.
Weili Liu received his Ph.D. in 2003. His thesis was on the thermal properties of superlattices and thin films. Weili is currently a postdoctoral research associate in the Nano-Device Laboratory at the University of California, Riverside.
David Song
David Song received his Ph.D. from the Mechanical Engineering Department at UCLA in June 2003. His thesis was on phonon heat conduction in nano and micro-porous thin films.