Ronggui Yang
Assistant Professor of Mechanical
Engineering
Sanders Faculty Fellow in Engineering
University of Colorado at Boulder
Dr. Ronggui Yang is
the Sanders faculty fellow in engineering and an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering directing the Nanoscale and Ultrafast
Thermal Sciences and Applications Lab (NUTS) at the University of Colorado at Boulder from
January 2006. Dr. Ronggui Yang is also a faculty research scientist of the National Science
Foundation Engineering
Research Center
for Extreme Ultraviolet Science and Technology (NSF EUV ERC) and the DARPA Focus Center on Nanoscale Science and
Technology for Integrated Micro/Nano-Electromechanical Transducers (DARPA iMINT Center). Dr. Yang
received his Ph.D degree focusing on Nanoscale Heat Transfer
with Prof. Gang Chen in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) in December 2005 (conferred in February 2006). Prior to MIT,
he had a master’s degree in MEMS from UCLA in 2001, a master’s degree in
Engineering Thermophysics from Tsinghua University
in Beijing in
1999, and a Bachelor’s degree in Thermal Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1996. His research interests are on
nanoscale and ultrafast thermal sciences, and their applications in energy and
information technologies, controllable manufacturing, and biomedical
engineering. His innovative research has won him numerous national and
international awards including the 2009 NSF CAREER Award (the National Science
Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify
the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education
and the integration of education and research), the 2008 MIT Technology
Review’s TR35 Award (the 35 young scientists and technologists under the age of
35 whose work--spanning medicine, computing, communications, electronics,
nanotechnology, and more--is changing our world), the 2008 DARPA Young Faculty
Award (39 rising stars in university microsystems
research), the 2005 Goldsmid Award for Research
Excellence in Thermoelectrics (the only award from
the International Thermoelectrics Society), the Best
Research Paper Award from the ASME InterPACK 2005
Conference (1 out of more than 500 papers), and a NASA Tech Brief Award for a
Technical Innovation in 2004. Upon arrival at CU-Boulder in January 2006, Dr.
Yang’s group has been continuingly active in developing thermal management
technologies for military and civilian devices and systems, developing
theoretical and simulation tools for electron and thermal transport in
nanostructures, developing low-to-high temperature thermal and thermoelectric
property measurement systems for multifunctional materials, developing defect identification
mechanisms for atomic layer deposition (ALD) enabled polymer-based flexible
hermetic packaging for organic light emitting diode (OLED), and developing the
optical pump-and-probe system (ultrafast thermal reflectance) to study the
fundamental dynamics of electrons and phonons. Since January 2006, Dr. Ronggui
Yang serves as a Principle Investigator or co-Principle Investigator for a few
large-scale research projects at CU-Boulder. Dr. Ronggui Yang is an active
member of ASME, IEEE, SAE, MRS, APS, and Sigma Xi. Dr. Ronggui Yang regularly
serves as a referee or a panelist for about 30 prestigious academic journals
including Science, Nano Letters, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B,
ASME transactions and IEEE Transactions, and federal funding agencies including
Department of Energy (DOE) and National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Ronggui
Yang is a track/symposium organizer or session chair for a number of ASME
conferences on nanotechnology and heat transfer and a referee of many technical
conference manuscripts. Dr. Ronggui Yang is a co-guest editor for a special
issue on “Nanoscale Heat Transfer” in the Journal of Computational and
Theoretical Nanosciences. Dr. Ronggui Yang currently
holds seven pending patents (or paten disclosures) and has published more than
60 journal and conference papers on nanotechnology-enabled energy conversion
and thermal management with an annual citation of >100 times in 2008 to his
journal publications according to ISI Web of Science.
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