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Dr. Amir Faghri  (Plenary Abstract )

Dr. Faghri is presently a professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Faghri joined the University of Connecticut in 1994 and served as Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department from 1994-1998, and the Dean of the School of Engineering from 1998-2006. Dr. Faghri has authored four books, more than 300 archival technical publications (including 215 journal papers), and holds eight U.S. patents. Dr. Faghri has served as a principal investigator conducting research in the area of thermal management and multiphase transport phenomena for applications ranging from advanced cooling systems to alternative energy systems, including heat pipes, fuel cells, solar energy systems and thermal energy storage devices. Dr. Faghri has received numerous external research contracts and grants from the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics & Space Administration, Department of Defense, Department of Education and various industries. Dr. Faghri is presently serving on the editorial board of seven scientific journals.  Dr. Faghri has received many honors and awards, including the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA) Thermophysics Award in 1998, the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) Heat Transfer Memorial Award in 1998, the ASME James Harry Potter Gold Medal In 2005, and the ASME/AIChE Max Jakob Memorial Award in 2010, which is the highest honor in the field of heat transfer. He has served as a consultant to several major research centers and corporations, including Los Alamos and Oak Ridge national laboratories, Exxon Mobil, and Intel Corporation. He presently serves on the boards of directors of both publicly-traded and private companies. Dr. Faghri received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, and a B.S with highest honors from Oregon State University.

Prof. Dongqing Li (Plenary Abstract )

Professor Dongqing Li is a professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Prof. Li’s research is in the areas of electrokinetic microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip technology. Dr. Li has published 258 papers in international journals, over 100 papers in conference proceedings, 31 book chapters and 3 books. He founded an international journal—Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, and served as the Editor-in-Chief from 2004 to 2012.  Dr. Li is also an organizer of several major international conferences in this area.

 

Dr Jinliang Xu (Plenary Abstract )

Dr Jinliang Xu is the Dean of the School of Energy and Power Engineering, North China Electric Power University. He got PhD in 1995 at Xian Jiaotong University, and was a postdoctor in Tsinghua University from 1995 to 1997. Then he worked in Florida International University and University of Notre Dame in the period of 1997-2002. He joined Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion from 2002, and setup the Micro Energy System Laboratory there. He joined North China Electric Power University at 2009 and founded the Beijing Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer for Low Grade Energy Utilizations. His research interest is multiphase flow and heat transfer in micro/nano systems, flow and heat transfer related to energy saving and low grade energy utilization, renewable energy utilization. He published 100 international journal papers as the correspnding author and coauthored two books. He is one of the committee chairs of the 4th Micro and Nano Flows Conference (University College London, UK, 7-10 September 2014). He has been the associate editor for the Alternative Energy journal, severed as the track-chair or session chair and presented the keynote lectures in a set of international conferences. He was the reviewer for 30 international journals. He was the best reviewer of the Journal of Heat Transfer, ASME in the fiscal year of 2012. He recived  the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education, China (first grade). He has been the “973″ project chief scientist, Ministry of Science since 2011 and was named as the “Yangtze River Scholar” Professor by the National Ministry of education, China in 2013.

Prof. Khellil Sefiane (Plenary Abstract )

Professor Khellil Sefiane is a Professor of Thermophysical engineering  in the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. Prof. Sefiane is Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada and corresponding member of the European Academy of Science, Letters and Literature. He is associate editor for the International Journal of Multiphase Flows, Elsevier. He has a long interest in heat and mass transfer and multiphase flow problems with a focus on both novel experimental techniques and numerical modelling. His studies of evaporating droplets have included identification of self-excited hydrothermal waves, influence of substrate conductivity, adsorption dependence, infrared themography to study contact line dynamics, flow transition within evaporating binary mixtures and suppression of ring stain formation during polymer solution droplet evaporation.In 2009, he received the Institute of Physics Printing & Graphics Science Group Prize for his “Fundamental studies on droplet evaporation”. He holds an ExxonMobil fellowship awarded by the Royal Academy of Engineering (2000), is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow (2011), an elected UK representative on EUROTHERM committee (http://www.eurothermcommittee.eu), an elected member of the Scientific Council of the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer (http://www.ichmt.org/). He has published more than 120 refereed journal papers (http://wok.mimas.ac.uk).

Dr. Ping Cheng (Plenary Abstract )

Dr. Ping Cheng, an Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been a Chair Professor in School of Mechanical Engineering at Shanghai Jiaotong University since 2003. Prior to his present position, he served as Chairman of Mechanical Department at University of Hawaii and as Head of Mechanical Engineering Department at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Prof. Cheng obtained his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University, and has been active in research work in microscale heat transfer, porous-media heat transfer, and radiative gasdynamics. He has published over 220 SCI journal papers that have been cited more than 6660 times according to Science Citation Index, achieving an H-factor of 43. A Fellow of both American Society of Mechanical Engineers（ASME）and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Prof. Cheng has received four top international awards including: 2005 ASME/AIChE Max Jakob Memorial Award, 1996 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award, 2003 AIAA Thermophysics Award, and 2006 ASME Heat Transfer Classic Paper Award. He serves as an editor for Int. Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer and Int. Communication in Heat & Mass Transfer, and is on editorial boards of 14 international heat transfer and energy journals.

 

Professor Xing Zhang (Plenary Abstract )

Professor Xing Zhang is the Director of the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics at Tsinghua University and the Chairman of the Heat and Mass Transfer Society of China. He received his Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University in 1988 and worked as a Lecturer at Southeast University after his graduation. From 1990 to 2006, he worked as a Research Associate, an Assistant Professor and an Associate Professor at Kyushu University in Japan. He, as a Professor, returned to Tsinghua University in 2006. His current research interests include micro/nanoscale heat transfer, thermophysical properties of nanostructured materials, and efficient use of wind/solar/hydrogen energy etc. He has published over four hundred papers, and delivered more than 50 Keynote, Plenary, and Invited Lectures at major technical Conferences and Institutions. He received the “Significant Contribution Awards” from the 10th Asian Thermophysical Properties Conference in 2013, the “National Natural Science Award (Second Class)” from the State Council of the People’s Republic of China in 2011, and the “Best Paper Award” from the Heat Transfer Society of Japan in 2008. He is currently an Assembly Member of International Heat Transfer Conference and an Executive Committee Member of International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer.

Prof. Satish Kandlikar (Plenary Abstract )

Professor Satish Kandlikar is the Gleason Professor of Mechanical Engineering at RIT.  He received his Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay in 1975 and has been a faculty there before coming to RIT in 1980.  He is an international expert in the field of pool and flow boiling, electronics cooling, heat exchanger design and fuel cells. He has published over 300 journal and conference papers. He is a fellow member of ASME and is the founder of the ASME International Conferences on Microchannels and Minichannels.  He has written/edited several books including Handbook of Phase Change – Boiling and Condensation, and Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Minichannels and Microchannels. He is a recipient of the Eisenhart Outstanding Teaching award, IBM Faculty award, ASME Best Paper Award, Journal of Heat Transfer Best Reviewer Award and the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award.

Dr. Yuwen Zhang (Plenary Abstract )

Dr. Yuwen Zhang is a James C. Dowell Professor and Interim Chairman of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at University of Missouri. His research interests are in the areas of thermal-fluids science and engineering, including ultrafast and high-energy laser materials interaction, multiscale transport phenomena in multiphase systems, inverse problems and optimization under uncertainty, micro- and nanoscale heat transfer, and sustainable and renewable energy. He has published four books, over 200 journal articles, and more than 130 conference papers. He is recipients of the Young Investigator Award from the US Office of Naval Research, Senior Faculty Research Award from the College of Engineering in University of Missouri, as well as the Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity from the University of Missouri (2010). Professor Zhang is a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief for two international journals, as well as editorial board members of other 8 international journals. He is the Chair of the K-15 Committee on Transport Phenomena in Manufacturing and Materials Processing of the ASME Heat Transfer Division. Professor Zhang received an Oversea Collaborative Research Award from Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), which was also known as Overseas Outstanding Young Investigator Award. He was awarded a 2008 Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Professorship by the Ministry of Education of China.

Prof. Yuying Yan (Plenary Abstract )

Professor Yuying Yan is Chair in Thermofluids Engineering and Head of HVACR & Heat Transfer Research Group in Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham (UK).  He also acts as Director of Industrial Joint Laboratory of Thermal Management & Heat Transfer for Low Carbon Vehicles at the University and Coordinator of UK-China international joint laboratory on Biomimetic Functional Surfaces and Effects on fluids at the University of Nottingham.  He is a member of the UK Engineering Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) Peer Review College; Editorial Board member of Nature Publishing Group’s multidisciplinary journal: Scientific Reports; Editorial Board member of Journal of Bionic Engineering; Deputy General Secretary of International Society of Bionic Engineering.  Dr Yan who carries out wide-ranging researches of fluid flow and heat transfer encountered in engineering and the built environment has authored/co-authored over 200 papers in refereed journal articles, conferences, books chapters and innovation patents.  His research was reported by Royal Society’s Excellence in Science in 2004, has been supported by the UK EPSRC, Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering, European FP7 and industries.

 

 

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Dr. Ana S. Moita (Keynote Abstract )

Post-Doc Researcher at the Laboratory of Thermofluids, Combustion and Energy Systems of IN+ – Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research, in Instituto Superior Técnico. PhD (2009) – Mechanical Engineering in Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon-Portugal).MSc (2004) – Mechanical Engineering (Energy) in Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon-Portugal). Mechanical Engineering Degree – 5year course (2001) in Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal). In 2010 she got a contract from the National Research Foundation to develop a scientific program, for a period of six years, at Instituto Superior Técnico, in collaboration with the University of Sttugart and with the University of Bergamo, under the topic” Integrated strategies to control the transport phenomena in liquid-solid interfaces”. She earned an Honorable Mention in the Young Scientists Awards for the year of 2009 and the 1st Prize in the same awards for the year of 2010. The work developed during the Post-Doc and throughout a significant part of her PhD addressed the characterization of the effects of patterned surfaces on the hydrodynamic and thermal behaviour of liquid droplets and liquid films interacting with heated substrates. Outcomes of her work have been mostly explored for cooling applications, although recent collaborations with Biomedical and Biological Engineering have extended research applications to Biomimetics and sample transport in Biomedical Engineering.

 

Professor Bengt Sundén (Keynote Abstract )

Bengt Sundén received his M.S. in 1973, Ph.D. in thermodynamics and fluid mechanics in 1979, and docent in applied thermodynamics and fluid mechanics in 1980, all from Chalmers Universities of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden. He became Professor of Heat Transfer in 1992 at Lund University. Since 1995 he serves as the head of the Department of Energy Sciences, Lund University, Sweden. His research topics are enhancement of heat transfer in compact heat exchangers, computational methods of convective flow and heat transfer in complex narrow geometries, combustion-related heat transfer including thermal radiation, gas turbine heat transfer (impinging jets, film cooling, ribbed ducts), evaporation and condensation in plate heat exchangers, thermal imaging techniques, PIV, and multiscale and multiphysics transport phenomena in fuel cells. He has published about 600 papers in journals, in books, and papers in proceedings. He has delivered several keynote and invited lectures. He has been editor of 25 books published by international publishing houses. Three textbooks (one in Swedish, two in English) have been issued. He is involved in referee tasks for about fifty international journals and has been active in several international scientific and organizing committees and boards. He is the editor-in-chief for a book series, Developments in Heat Transfer. In addition, he is active editor (AE or RE) for three journals and board member of several other ones. He is a fellow of the ASME and a 2011 recipient of the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award. In 2013 he was a recipient of ASME Heat Transfer Division 75th Anniversary Medal. He is Honorary Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China and a Guest Professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China. He has supervised 38 PhD theses, 42 Licentiate of Engineering theses and about 180 MSc theses.

 

 Prof. Bin Chen (Keynote Abstract )

Professor Bin Chen received his doctoral degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2002. During 2002 to 2004, he worked in National Maritime Research Institute and University of Tokyo with JSPS postdoctoral fellowship. Now he is a full Professor and vice director at State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. He focuses his research on heat transfer and two-phase flows with applications in Bio-medical engineering, which has been funded by the Key project from National Natural Science Foundation, the Ministry of Education of China, 863 project from Ministry of Science and Technology, etc. He serves as members of the editorial board of American Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Open Journal of Fluid Dynamics and CIESC Journal. He is currently director of Multi-phase Flows pane of Fluid Mechanics Committee, the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (CSTAM). In 2013, he was awarded “Sanqin Talent Allowance” from Shaanxi Province.

 

Prof. Bo Yu (Keynote Abstract )

Professor Bo Yu obtained his doctoral degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1999 with a major in Engineering Thermophysics. After graduation, he studied in Kyushu University as a postdoctoral fellow from June 1999 to March 2001 and worked in National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology of Japan as a special research associate from April 2001 to March 2005. From April 2005, he has been a full professor at Department of Petroleum Storage and Transportation Engineering in China University of Petroleum-Beijing. His research mainly focuses on numerical heat transfer, turbulent drag-reducing flow, heat transfer enhancement and transportation technology of crude oil. He has chaired more than 10 research projects funded by National High Technology Research and Development Program of China and National Natural Science Foundation of China etc. He has published more than 100 journal papers. In 2013 he acquired the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. So far, four national and provincial natural science and technology awards have been conferred to him. He was also awarded personal research honors such as Sun Yueqi Award of Youth Science and Technology, Outstanding Contribution Youth Award of China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association, and Mao Yisheng Youth Science and Technology Award of Beijing.

 

Dr. Chen Li (Keynote Abstract )

Doctor Chen Li is currently an Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA. He received his B.S. degree in Thermal Power Engineering from Chongqing University in China in 1997, and M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Nevada, Reno, in 2003, and Ph. D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI, Troy, NY) in August 2006. His research focuses on phase-change heat transfer on micro/nanoscale structures. He authored and co-authored more than 30 journal papers. He serves as a referee of a dozen of prestigious academic journals and international conferences in physics and thermal/fluids. He has been invited to serve as a Guest Editor and Panel reviewers in US Federal Agencies (NSF, NASA, ARO, etc.) and JAXA in Japan. He has served as a track and session organizers in international thermal/fluid conferences. His research is sponsored by ONR, NSF, DARPA, and DOE/ORNL.

 

Dr David A McNeil (Keynote Abstract )

Dr David A McNeil is a Senior Lecturer in Thermofluids Engineering at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh (UK), where he is a member of the Institute of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering (IMPEE) research institute.  He completed his PhD at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (UK) in 1985. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He is an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Computational Multiphase Flows. Dr McNeil carries out wide-ranging research into fluid flow and heat transfer, specialising in boiling, condensation and two-phase flow. He has authored/co-authored over 50 papers in refereed journal articles and conference papers.

 

Professor John Chai (Keynote Abstract )

John Chai is currently a professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Petroleum Institute (PI). He joined the PI as professor and Chairman of Mechanical Engineering; a position he served till Oct. 1, 2013.  Prior to joining the PI, he was a Principal Engineer at Amoeba Technologies Inc., a start-up CFD company. He also held faculty positions at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Tennessee Technological University, USA. He is an Editorial Board member of Computational Thermal Sciences and an ASME Fellow. He received his B.S. (with First-Class Honors) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Windsor, Canada and his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In 1994 he graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering where he worked under the supervision of Prof. Suhas V. Patankar. His research interests are in the development of numerical techniques for complex multiphysics transport phenomena encountered in multi-phase flows and fluid-structure interactions. These include, but are not limited to, digital (droplet-based) microfluidics, wet chemical etching, asphaltene (cholesterol) depositions and numerical methods for oil and gas industry. He has published 80 journal articles, over 90 conference articles and contributed a chapter to the second edition of the Handbook of Numerical Heat Transfer. According to Google Scholar, his works have been cited over 2100 times and his H-index is 20. He contributed significantly to the development of numerical methods for radiation heat transfer process. His work is included in major graduate-level textbooks on radiation heat transfer and the solution procedure has been incorporated into major commercial CFD software.

 

Dr. Tomohiko Yamaguchi (Keynote Abstract )
Associate Professor at Division of Mechanical Science, Department of System Science in Nagasaki University. Dr. Eng. (1996) – Department of Mechanical Engineering for Power, Division of Engineering, Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan)MSc (1993) – Department of Mechanical Engineering, Division of Engineering, Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan). Mechanical Engineering Bachelor Degree (1991) – Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan).He got a contract as a research associate at the Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Nagasaki University in 1996, and has been working at Nagasaki University as an associate professor since 2001. He is a member of PROPATH (PROgram PAckage for THermophysical properties of fluids) group and developing PROPATH from 1994. The work by PROPATH group was awarded “Outstanding Achievement Award of the JSTP” from Japan Society of Thermophysical Properties in 1995. Funded by KITEC in 2002 he had worked with professor J. Gmehling and Dr. J. Rarey at Universität Oldenburg, Germany, as for the topics of the prediction and measurement of thermophysical properties of fluids. The numerical simulation of solid-gas or liquid-gas two-phase flow is another main topic of his research. From 2012 he had worked with professor Y. Yan at the University of Nottingham in UK as a visiting researcher for 13 months funded by JSPS in order to study the LBM for the two-phase flow in heat pipes and the MRI measurement of the water delivery in plants.

 

Dr Youjun Lu (Keynote Abstract )

Dr Youjun Lu received his doctoral degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2007. Now he is an associate Professor at State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. He focuses his research on two-phase flows and heat transfer in supercritical water fluidized bed, hydrogen production and CO2 splitting by solar thermochemical cycles.  In 2010, he was awarded “National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation” and “New Century Excellent Talents in University” from Ministry of Education of China. In 2013, he acquired the excellent Young Fund from National Natural Science. He has published more than 100 papers including more than 50 journal papers. His research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation a and the National Key Project for Basic Research of China.