Short Course Lecturers

Speaker biography:

Prof. M. Pinar Mengüç is Director of the Center for Energy, Environment and Economy (CEEE) and Head of Mechanical Engineering Department at Özyeğin University. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, Indiana, USA in 1985. He joined the faculty at the University of Kentucky the same year as an assistant professor, and was promoted to the ranks of associate and full professor in 1988 and 1993, respectively. Since early 2009 he has been at Özyeğin University in Istanbul as the Head of Mechanical Engineering Program and the Founding Director of the Center for Energy, Environment, and Economy. He has authored/coauthored more than 145 international refereed journal articles, more than 180 conference papers, more than 110 international invited/keynote speeches, and two books. To date, he has guided more than 60 M.Sc. and Ph.D. students and post-doctoral fellows. He received the Faculty Excellence Award for Information Transfer and the Faculty Excellence Award for Research from Özyeğin University in 2014 and 2015, respectively. In 2016, he was elected to the Science Academy of Turkey. In 2018, Mengüç has received the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award in the Art Category.

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Prof. Zhuomin Zhang is a Professor of G. W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA in 1992. Professor Zhuomin Zhang received Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and the CAREER Award in 1999. He received ASME Heat Transfer Division Best Paper Award in 2000 and AIAA Thermophysics Best Paper Award in 2005. In 2015, he received ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award (Science Category). He is currently a Fellow of the ASME, a member of the AAAS, a fellow of the APS, the founder of the Nanoscale Heat Transfer (K9) of the ASME Department of Heat Transfer, and an overseas review expert of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has published more than 160 academic papers in various international journals and conferences. He is associate editor of the international authoritative journals such as ASME--Journal of Heat Transfer, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, and International Journal of Thermophysics. His research activities are mainly on micro-Nano heat transfer, radiation temperature measurement, thermophysical properties, light scattering, Nano-photonics, thermometry, optoelectronics, semiconductor manufacturing and other aspects.

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Prof. Linhua Liu is a Professor of Institute of Energy and Power Engineering at Shandong University, China. He received his PhD in Engineering Thermophysics at Harbin Institute of Technology in 1996. He is the Associate Editor of Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer and Heat Transfer Research. He is also a member of the Scientific Council of the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT). He was awarded The Funds for Creative Research Groups of China in 2004 and became The Yangtze River Scholars Distinguished Professor in 2007. His research activities are mainly on the Mechanism and Numerical Simulation of light / thermal radiation transmission in absorbing and scattering media, Micro-scale thermophysical processes and energy transport mechanisms. Non-equilibrium thermal radiation transport mechanism in high-temperature dispersive media. Theoretical modeling and experimental measurement of optical properties of condensed matter and First-principles simulation of optical, electrical, and thermal properties of materials

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Prof. Mário G. Silveirinha is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon, Portugal. He was the associate Professor of University of Coimbra from 1998 to 2015. Since 2015, he joined University of Lisbon. He has published more than 200 academic papers in various international journals and conferences and has been Cited more than 9,000 times in total. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015 for contributions to electrodynamics of metamaterials. He was chosen as the 2018 recipient of the IET Harvey Engineering Research Prize for his outstanding contributions to research in the field of Radar and Microwave Engineering, specifically in the electrodynamics of metamaterials and its applications to microwave components and devices. His research activities are mainly on Metamaterials, plasmonics, Nano photonics.

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Prof. Liping Wang is an associate professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Since 2012, he became an assistant professor at Arizona State University. His research findings have been published in more than 40 peer-reviewed high-impact journal papers in applied physics, optics and heat transfer. He is the recipient of the 2015 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, 2011 ASME Nano Engineering Council Award for Top Nano Engineering in Energy & Sustainability Poster, and 2010 Hartnett-Irvine Best Paper Award from the International Centre of Heat and Mass Transfer. His research activities are mainly on selectively control thermal radiation for energy and sensing applications by fundamentally understanding and exploring novel physical mechanisms in nanoscale radiative transport with Nano engineered materials or so-called metamaterials. Besides, he has been investigating near-field thermal radiation for energy harvesting and thermal modulation applications.

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Prof. Mathieu Francoeur is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering Department at University of Utah, Salt Lake City. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at University of Kentucky in 2010. He was awarded the NSF CAREER Award in 2013 and the Army Research Office Young Investigator Award in 2014. His research has resulted in more than 150 publications, including 48 journal papers and 3 book chapters. His research activities are mainly on the Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer devices, Extreme Near-Field Heat Transfer, Thermophotovoltaic Power Generation, Concentrated Solar Power Generation, Radiative Property Control and Multi-scale, Many-body Near-Field Thermal Radiation Simulations.