Anurag graduated from the University of Missouri — Columbia with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, in 2006. His research at MIT is in the area of biological heat transfer and bio-thermodynamics. Specifically, he is investigating technologies for the preservation of human cells and cell response in both macro and micro/nano environments. Anurag works in collaboration with Prof. Mehmet Toner at the Center for Engineering in Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Qiang Hao obtained his B.E. in air conditioning from Tsinghua University (2001) and his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin (2004). Currently he is working on theoretical modeling and experimental measurements of thermoelectrics.
Tom Harris has a B.E. (2000) and M.S. (2003) from Vanderbilt University. His research is focused on design, synthesis, characterization, and carrier transport in low-dimensional structures, specifically nanotubes and nanowires for energy conversion applications.
Asegun Henry obtained a B.S. from Florida A&M University in 2004. Ase's research is focused on molecular dynamics simulations, phonon heat conduction mechanisms and other nanoscale transport phenomena.
Lu Hu earned a BS (2000) degree in mechanical engineering from University of Science and Technology of China. Then he spent two years at Purdue University and earned his MS (2002) in mechanical engineering. Currently his research is focused on thermophotovoltaic devices and thermal radiation.
Daniel received his diploma in process engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt/Main, Germany in 2003. In 2005 he received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH), Switzerland, where he graduated with a M.S. program in mechnical engineering in the Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies. Presently, he is a graduate student in the NanoEngineering Group doing research on the solar application of thermoelectric generators.
Hohyun Lee has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Seoul National University (2003) and an M.S. from MIT (2005). Hohyun's Ph.D. research is on the experimental characterization of thermoelectrics.
Ken graduated from Cornell University in 2002 with a Bachelor's Degree in mechanical engineering. He spent the next four years working as a teacher and a field ornithologist. From 2006 until 2008 he worked at Boston Flight Sciences as an engineering consultant. Ken's research at MIT focuses on measuring properties of thermoelectric materials.
Austin earned his B.S. degree in Engineering Science from UC Berkeley in 2006. He is the recipient of of the Department of Defense and NSF Graduate Fellowships. Currently he is working on experimental characterization of thermoelectrics.
Andy Muto is a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Northeastern University in 2005. His research is on thermoelectric materials and the measurement of thermal and thermoelectric properties of nanotubes and nanowires.
Poetro earned his Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia, in 2006. He is a recipient of the International Fulbright Science and Technology Award. Poetro's research at MIT is focused on photovoltaic devices.
Sheng Shen has a B.S. (2000) and M.S. (2003) from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China. He has worked as an assistant researcher at the Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion in the Chinese Academy of Sciences from July 2004 to April 2005. Shen's research is on nanoscale fluid dynamics and heat transfer in data storage, kinetic theory, molecular dynamics and advanced data storage methods.