Gang Chen is the Warren and Towneley Rohsenow Professor in the department of mechanical engineering at MIT. He received a B.S. and M.S. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China (1987) and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley (1993). He has held positions at Duke University and UCLA and is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award (1994) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2002). Some of Professor Chen's professional activities include:
- Chair of the ASME Nanotechnology Institute Advisory Board
- Co-Editor: Annual Review of Heat Transfer
- Associate Editor: ASME Journal of Heat Transfer
- Editor: Microscale Thermophysical Engineering
Professor Chen's research interests include: micro- and nanoscale heat transfer and energy conversion with applications in thermoelectrics, photonics, and microelectronics; nano-mechanical devices and micro-electro-mechanical systems; radiation and electromagnetic metamaterials. His teaching interests are focused on heat transfer, thermodynamics, micro/nano transport and technology, and radiation. He has recently written a textbook on nanoscale energy transport and conversion.
Xiaoyuan Chen received a Ph.D. from the University of Strathclyde, UK (1993) and has worked in both academia and industry on semiconductor physics and devices in low dimensional structures. He is currently a research scientist in the Nanoengineering Group, where his interests are focused on thermoelectrics and energy transfer in low dimensional structures, photon, phonon and electron interactions in low dimension structures and their device applications.