Nano-enabled Energy Conversion, Storage and Thermal Management Systems
(NEXT) Group
Director: Dr. Ronggui
Yang, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Office
Location: ECME 279, Engineering Center
Student Office:
ECME 219,
Student Labs:
ECME 165, DLC 1B14, ECSL 111 & 113
Tel:
303-735-1003 (O); Fax: 303-492-3498
Email: Ronggui.Yang@Colorado.Edu Web: http://spot.colorado.edu/~yangr
SHORT BIO:
Dr. Ronggui Yang is the S.P. Chip and Lori Johnson Faculty Fellow and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering directing the Nano-enabled Energy Conversion, Storage, and Thermal Management Systems group (NEXT) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr. Yang is also a Faculty Fellow for the Materials Science and Engineering Program and a Faculty Affiliate for the CU/NREL Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute at CU-Boulder. Dr. Yang received his Ph.D degree focusing on Nanoscale Heat Transfer with Prof. Gang Chen in Mechanical Engineering and Professor Mildred S. Dresselhaus from MIT in February 2006. Since January 2006, he started his faculty career as an assistant professor at CU-Boulder and has been promoted to associate professor with early tenure in summer 2011 (two-year ahead of the normal clock at CU-Boulder) and to Full Professor in summer 2016. 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 the fundamentals of nanoscale transport phenomena (thermal, electrical, thermoelectric, phase-change) and the applications of micro/nanotechnologies for energy conversion, storage and thermal management. His notable contributions include laying out the theoretical foundations for proposing nanocomposites as high efficiency thermoelectric materials, developing multiscale simulation framework for phonon transport in nanostructured materials, the first experimental demonstration of quasi-ballistic phonon transport using ultrafast pump-and-probe method with short wavelength soft X-ray, and most recently a strong push on the development of hybrid micro/nano-structured surfaces for phase-change heat transfer enhancement. Dr. Ronggui Yang has published more than 100 journal papers, delivered ~60 invited seminars and is associated with >130 invited and contributed conference talks and posters that garnered numerous best paper/presentation/poster awards. His journal papers are highly cited with an annual citation of > 800 times since 2015 according to ISI Web of Science (~1200 times of annual citation since 2015 according to Google Scholar). His innovative research has won him numerous awards including the 2014 ITS Young Investigator in Thermoelectrics from International Thermoelectric Society (ITS), the 2010 ASME Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer, an NSF CAREER Award in 2009, the 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) and the DARPA Young Faculty Award (39 rising stars in university microsystems research) in 2008, the 2005 Goldsmid Award for Research Excellence in Thermoelectrics, and a NASA Tech Brief Award for a Technical Innovation in 2004. He has also won the Provost’s Achievement Award (2012), the Dean’s Performance Award (2010), the Woodward Outstanding Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (2011) and the Outstanding Research Award in Mechanical Engineering (2008) from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He was endowed with the S.P. Chip and Lori Johnson Faculty Fellow for 2013-2017 and the Sanders Faculty Fellow for 2008-2012. His research work and accomplishments have been reported and highlighted by various media channels. Dr. Yang regularly serves as a referee or a panelist for about 50 prestigious academic journals including Science, Nature, Physical Review Letters, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Physical Review B, ASME transactions and IEEE Transactions, US federal funding agencies including Department of Energy (DOE), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Army Research Office (ARO), and National Science Foundation (NSF), and non-profit organizations worldwide including European Research Council. Dr. Yang is an active member of ASME and has distinguishable services to ASME being a topic/symposium organizer or a session chair for hundreds of technical sessions for ASME conferences. Dr. Yang is currently the Chair (2014-2016) of the Nanoengineering for Energy and Sustainability (NEES) Steering Committee of ASME Nanoengneering Council and the Chair (2015-2017) of the K-9 Technical Committee on Nanoscale Thermal Transport of ASME Heat Transfer Division.
Research
Interests:
· Micro- and Nanotechnologies for Energy Conversion and Storage
· Micro/Nano-Enabled Thermal Management for Electronics and Energy Systems
· Micro/Nanoscale and Ultrafast Transport Phenomena
· MEMS/NEMS and Micro-/Nano- Fabrication
EDUCATION:
· Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), GPA:5.0/5.0, Feb. 2006
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Heat Transfer), Minor: Solid State Electronics
Dissertation:
Nanoscale Heat Conduction with
Applications in Nanoelectronics and Thermoelectrics.
Dissertation Advisor: Professor Gang Chen
Committee: Gang Chen, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, John H. Lienhard, Borivoje B. Mikic
· University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), GPA: 3.85/4.0, June 2001
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems)
· Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, GPA:85/100, July 1999
M.S. in Engineering Thermophysics
· Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, GPA: 85/100, July 1996
B.S. in Thermal Engineering
POSITIONS
HELD:
2016 - Full Professor of Mechanical
Engineering, CU-Boulder.
2011 - 2006 Associate Professor of Mechanical
Engineering, CU-Boulder.
11/2012 - Faculty Fellow, Materials Science and
Engineering Program, CU-Boulder.
09/2009 - Faculty Affiliate, CU/NREL Renewable
and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI).
01/2006-07/2011 Assistant Professor of Mechanical
Engineering, CU-Boulder.
09/2001-12/2005 Graduate Research Assistant, Mechanical
Engineering, MIT.
09/1999-07/2001 Graduate Research Assistant, Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering, UCLA.
09/1996-07/1999 Graduate Research Assistant, Thermal
Engineering, Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
AWARDS AND
DISTINCTIONS:
(These are the awards to the Professor
Yang. To see the
list of numerous awards to Professor Yang’s Student and Post-Doctoral Advisees,
Click Here)
2015 Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME)
2014 Marquis Who’s Who in America (from 69th and subsequent editions).
2014 ITS Young Investigator Award, International Thermoelectric Society (ITS)
2013-2017 S.P. Chip and Lori Johnson Faculty Fellow of Engineering, CU-Boulder.
2013 Outstanding Research Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, CU-Boulder
2013 JSPS Invitation Fellow (Short Term), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
2012 Provost's
Faculty Achievement Award, Office of the Provost, CU-Boulder
2011 Steve Woodward
Outstanding Faculty Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, CU-Boulder
2010 ASME Bergles-Rohsenow
Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer (The Bergles-Rohsenow
Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer is given to a young engineer who is
under 36 and has received a Ph.D., or an equivalent degree in engineering.
Citation for this award: For developing modeling and
experimental tools to understand micro/nanoscale thermal transport and for
innovative applications of micro/nano-structure in
macroscale forms for energy conversion and thermal management. ASME
Press Release)
2010 Dean’s
Award for the Outstanding Junior Faculty Member, College of Engineering and
Applied Science, University
of Colorado
2010 Biography featured as a technology developer with outstanding potential that could reverse the decline in the book “The Rise and Fall of American Technology” by Dr. Lynn G. Gref.
2009 National Science
Foundation (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 within the context of the mission of
their organizations.)
2009 Selected as one of the
<100 Invited Participants, the US National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 15th U.S.
Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. US
NAE Press Release.
2008 Technology Review’s TR35 Award (one of the 35 young scientists and technologists in world who are under the age of 35, but their work--spanning medicine, computing, communications, electronics, nanotechnology, energy, and more--is changing our world.) TR35 Profile, US AFOSR Press Release, CU Press Release
2008 DARPA/MTO Young Faculty
Award (one of the 39 rising stars in university microsystems research), DARPA Press
Release, CU
Press Release
2008-2011 Sanders Faculty
Fellow, College of Engineering and Applied Science, CU-Boulder.
2008 Outstanding Research
Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, CU-Boulder.
2008 Nominated for IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla ICCAD 2008 Best Paper Award by the conference
organizers of the 2008 International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
(ICCAD).
2005 Best Paper Award –
Research, InterPACK 2005 (the ASME/Pacific Rim
Technical Conference and Exhibition on Integration and Packaging of MEMS, NEMS,
and Electronic Systems), 1 out of 500+ papers.
2005 Goldsmid
Award for Excellence in Research in Thermoelectrics,
International Thermoelectrics Society.
2004 NASA Certificate of Recognition for a
Technical Innovation (Space Act Tech Brief Award), NASA Inventions and
Contributions Board.
2003 Elected full
member of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
a).
Technical Committees
07/2015 – 06/2017, Chair, K-9 Technical
Committee on Nanoscale Thermal Transport, ASME Heat Transfer Division.
07/2014 – 06/2016, Chair, Nanoengineering for Energy and Sustainability
(NEES) Steering
Committee, ASME Nanoengineering Council (also known as
ASME Nanotechnology Institute).
2013 - present,
Committee Member, ASME K-7 & AICHE Joint Technical Committee on Thermophysical Properties, ASME Heat Transfer Division
& AICHE.
2012 – 06/2015, Founding Vice Chair, K-9
Technical Committee on Nanoscale Thermal Transport, ASME Heat Transfer
Division.
2012 – 06/2014, Vice Chair, Nanoengineering for Energy and Sustainability
(NEES) Steering Committee
Member, ASME Nanoengineering Council.
2009 - 2013, Committee Member, K-8 Technical
Committee on Fundamentals and Theory of Heat Transfer, ASME Heat Transfer
Division.
2009 – 2012, Committee Member, Nanoengineering for Energy and Sustainability
Steering Committee (NEES), ASME Nanoengineering
Council.
2006 – 2009, Committee Member, Nanoscale Transport Phenomena, ASME Nanotechnology Institute.
2006 - 2009, Committee Member, K-15 Technical
Committee on Thermal Transport in Manufacturing, ASME Heat Transfer Division.
b). Journal Editor
·
2014- present, Guest
Editor (in charge of Invited Topical Reviews), ASME Journal of Electronic
Packaging.
·
2014- present, Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports,
published by Nature Publishing Group.
·
2006-2008,
Co-Guest Editor for a special issue on “Nanoscale Heat Transfer” in Journal of
Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Published in February 2008, American
Scientific Publishers.
c). Conference Recently
Organized/Co-Organized
·
Track
Organizer for “Nanoscale Thermal Transport”, ASME Summer Heat Transfer
Conference, Washington DC, July 2016. (responsible for reviewing and sorting
about 80 abstracts submitted to this track and recruit session chairs)
·
Topic
Co-Organizers, Topic 13-13
NEES Panel on Nanoengineering
for Sustainability and Water, ASME International Mechanical
Engineering Conference and Exhibitions (ASME IMECE), Houston, TX, Nov. 13-19,
2015.
·
Topic
Co-Organizers, Topic 10-9 Fundamentals of Boiling and Phase Change Heat
Transfer including Nanoscale Effects, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and
Exhibitions (ASME IMECE), Houston, TX, Nov. 13-19, 2015. (responsible for
reviewing and sorting about 15 abstracts submitted to this topic and recruit
session chairs)
·
Topic
Co-Organizers, Topic 10-13 Nanoscale Heat Conduction,
ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibitions (ASME IMECE),
Houston, TX, Nov. 13-19, 2015. (responsible for
reviewing and sorting about 60 abstracts submitted to this track and recruit
session chairs).
·
Session
Organizer, Energy Conversion (3 sessions), First Thermal and Fluids Engineering
Conference, American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers, The Roosevelt
Hotel in New York, August 9-12, 2015
·
Topic
Co-Organizer, Five sessions on Thermal Properties of Nanostructured Materials,
the 19th ASME/AICHE/NIST Symposium on Thermophysical
Properties, Boulder, CO, June 21-26, 2015. (responsible for reviewing and
sorting about 25 abstracts submitted to this topic and recruit session chairs)
·
Chair,
Best Poster Award Committee, the 2nd
International Conference on Phononics and Thermal
Energy Science, Tongji University, Shanghai, China,
May 26-31, 2014.
·
Session Chair, the 2nd International Conference on
Phononics and Thermal Energy Science, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, May 26-31, 2014.
·
Track Co-Chair, Track #9 Thermal Metrology at
Micro/Nanoscales, The 4th ASME Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer
International Conference (MNHMT-13), The University of Hongkong,
Hongkong, China, December 11 – 14, 2013
·
Topic
Co-Organizers, Nanoengineering for Energy and
Sustainability, ASME International
Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibitions (ASME IMECE), San Diego, CA,
Nov. 2013.
·
Topic
Organizer, Nanoscale Thermal Transport (15 Technical Sessions), ASME IMECE, San
Diego, CA, Nov. 2013.
·
Topic
Co-Organizers, Nanoengineering for Energy and
Sustainability, (Session Chair or Co-Chair of 6 technical sessions in this
topic under 10-4, managed the review for 28 abstracts), ASME IMECE, Houston,
TX, Nov 11-15, 2012.
·
Topic
Organizer with two Co-Organizers, Fundamentals of Nanoscale Heat Transport,
(Session Chair or Co-Chair of 7 technical sessions in this topic under 7-3,
managed the review for 40 abstracts and 25 full papers), ASME IMECE, Houston,
TX, Nov 11-15, 2012.
·
Topic
Organizer with two Co-Organizers, Fundamentals of Phase-Change Heat Transport,
(Session Chair or Co-Chair of 7 technical sessions in this topic under 7-3,
managed the review for 40 abstracts and 20 full papers), ASME IMECE, Houston,
TX, Nov 11-15, 2012.
·
Topic
Co-Organizer (managed the review for 42 abstracts, chaired 2 out of 7 technical
sessions organized), Thermal Properties of Nanostructured Materials, the 18th
ASME/AICHE/NIST Symposium on Thermophysical
Properties, Boulder, CO, June 24-29, 2012.
·
Track
Co-Organizer, Track #4 Nanoengineering for Energy and
Sustainability (6 technical sessions), ASME IMECE, Denver, CO, November 2011.
·
Topic
Co-Organizer, Fundamentals of Nanoscale Heat Transport (12 technical sessions),
ASME IMECE, Denver, CO, November 2011.
·
Topic
Organizer, Fundamentals and Applications of Phase-Change Heat Transport (7
technical sessions), ASME IMECE, Denver, CO, November 2011.
·
Track
Co-Organizer, Track #6 Nanoengineering for Energy,
ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exhibitions, 2010.
·
Topic
Co-Organizer, Topic #25 Thermal Properties of Nanostructured Materials (8
technical sessions), the 17th ASME/AICHE/NIST Symposium on Thermophysical Properties, Boulder, CO, June 21-26, 2009.
·
Topic Organizer, Topic 9-1 Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing and
Manufacturing 2008 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Jackonsville, Florida, August 10-14, 2008.
·
Program Committee Member, the 2nd ASME Integration &
Commercialization of Micro & Nanosystems
International Conference & Exhibition, June 2008, Hong Kong.
·
Track Organizer, Track #5 Nano/Micro-scale Thermal
Transport and Integrated System Applications, the 2nd ASME Integration &
Commercialization of Micro & Nanosystems
International Conference & Exhibition, Hongkong,
June 2008,
·
Session Chair, Session 5-3 Nano/Micro-Enabled Enery Systems, the 2nd Integration &
Commercialization of Micro & Nanosystems
International Conference & Exhibition, ASME Nano-Institute,
Hongkong, June
2008,.
·
Session
Chair, Session 8 Solid-Liquid
Interface, the 6th US-Japan Joint Seminar on Nanoscale
Transport Phenomena - Science and Engineering, Radisson Hotel, Boston, MA, July
13-16, 2008.
·
Session Chair, Micro/Nanoscale Energy Transport Poster Session, International Conference on Integration and Commercialization of Micro- and Nanosystems, Sanya, Hainan,
China, January 10
- 13, 2007
· Session Chair, Properties at the Nanoscale 2 – Thermal Properties of Nanoscale Materials, 16th Symposium on Thermophysical Properties, Boulder, CO, July 30-Aug. 04, 2006
·
Session
Chair, Nanomaterials Poster Session, Energy Nanotechnology International
Conference, ASME Nano-Institute, MIT, MA, June 25-28, 2006.
·
Session Chair, Session 1-1 and 1-2, Design and Modeling of
Nanocomposites, Multifunctional NANOcomposites 2006
International Conference, ASME Nano-Institute, Honolulu, Hawaii, Sept. 20-22,
2006.
·
Local Organizer, 15th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical
and Applied Mechanics, Boulder, CO, June 25-30, 2006.
d). Proposal Review Panelist/Reviewer for Federal and
Private Funding Agencies
·
Review
Panelist, NSF/CBET Thermal Transport Program, Arlington,
VA, 2006-present.
·
Review
Panelist, NSF/CMMI Nanomanufacturing Program,
Arlington, VA, 2008-present
·
Review
Panelist, NSF/ECCS Energy, Power, Control and Network, Arlington, VA,
2010-present
·
Review
Panelist, NSF/Sandia National Laboratories Program, Albuquerque, NM, June 29, 2006.
·
Review Panelist,
NSF – NIRT Proposals, Arlington, VA, March 1-2, 2006.
·
Proposal
Review, NSF/DOE Vehicle Thermoelectric Program, Summer 2010.
·
Proposal
Reviewer, NSF, February 2006 ~
·
Proposal
Reviewer, Department of Energy, March 2007 ~
·
Proposal
Reviewer, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, August 2008-
·
Proposal
Reviewer, Army Research Office, October 2010-
·
Proposal Reviewer, U.S. Civilian Research and
Development Foundation, 2007~
·
Proposal
Reviewer, American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, March 2006 ~
·
Proposal
Reviewer, Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation, November 2006
·
Proposal
Reviewer, Research Award Program, City University of New York, 2008-
·
Proposal
Reviewer, Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP), Stanford University,
2008-
·
Proposal Referee, European Research Council,
2009-2013 (appointed by ERC President Fotis C. Kafatos)
e). Referee for Journal Manuscripts (Partial List)
Interdisciplinary and Nanotechnology Journals:
Science (2006~); Nature (2007~); Nature
Nanotechnology (2009~); Nature Materials (2006~); Nature Communications
(2012~); Physical Review Letters (2005~ ); Physical Review B (2005~ ); Nano
Letters (2005~ ); ACS Nano (2010~); Applied Physics Letters (2004~ ); Journal of Applied Physics (2005~ );
Physics Letters A (2005~); Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics (2006~);
Nanotechnology (2006~ ); IEEE Transactions on Electronic Devices (2006~); Superlattices and Microstructures (2003~ ); Journal of Computational and Theoretical
Nanoscience (2006 ~ ); Journal of Electronic Materials (2007~ );
Computational Physics Communications (2007~ ); Journal of Microengine
and Micromechanics (2007~ ); Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids
(2008~); Review of Scientific Instruments (2008~); IEEE Transactions on Very
Large Scale Integration Systems (2008~), IEEE Transactions on Electronic
Devices (2007-), IEEE/ASME Journal of MicroElectroMechanical
Systems (2008~), Nano Research Letters (2008~), Journal of Solid-State
Chemistry (2009~), Measurement Science and Technology (2009~), Computer
Modeling in Engineering and Sciences (2009~), Nanoscale (2012~) ACS Nano
(2010~), Journal of Physical Chemistry
(2010~); Carbon (2010~); AIP Advances (2011~); Composite Science and Technology
(2012~); Chemistry of Materials (2013~); Materials Research Express (2014~)
Heat Transfer and Energy
Journals:
ASME Journal of Heat Transfer (2002~ ); International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (2005~); Nanoscale/Microscale Thermophysical Engineering (2004~ ); AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer (2006 ~ ); International Journal of Thermophysics (2006~ ); International Journal of Thermal Sciences (2009~); Energy Conversion and Management (2004~ ); Applied Thermal Engineering (2005~ ); Microfluidics and Nanofluidics (2007~); IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies (2006~); HVAC&R Research Journal (2008~); Heat Transfer Engineering Journal (2007~)
Book Proposal Reviewer for John Wiley & Sons, UK.
f). Conference Manuscript
Reviewer:
ASME/JSME Joint Thermal Engineering
Conference, 2003, 2011 (AJTE 2003/2011).
ASME International Mechanical
Engineering Conference and Exhibitions (IMECE 2002, 2004, 2006-2015).
ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference (2005, 2006, 2007,
2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014).
The
ASME/Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition on Integration and
Packaging of MEMS, NEMS, and Electronic Systems (InterPACK 2005, 2007, 2009,
2011, 2013).
ASME Multifunctional NANOcomposites
International Conference (MN06, MN 07)
The 15th International Heat Transfer
Conference (IHTC-15), Kyoto, Japan, 2014.
The 14th International Heat Transfer
Conference (IHTC-14), Washington, DC, 2010.
The 13th International Heat Transfer
Conference (IHTC-13), Sydney, Australia, 2006.
The 36th SAE International Conference on
Environmental Systems (ICES), 2006.
Proceedings of MRS Fall Meetings and Spring Meetings,
2003-2014
ASME Energy Nanotechnology International Conference(ENIC06), 2006, 2008
ASME
International Conference on Integration and Commercialization
of Micro- and Nanosystems (MicroNano
2007, 2008)
ASME
Micro/Nanoscale Heat Transfer Int. Conference (MNHT08), Taiwan, January 2008.
g). Outreach Activities
(PreK-12 Schools, Program, and Organization):
2013-2015, School
Principle, Bohua Chinese School (offering Chinese
classes taught in English and in Chinese, and extracurricular culture classes,
for about 300 K-9 grade students).
2012-2013, School
Council Member (in Charge of Faculty Recruitment and Training, of ~20 Chinese
Teachers), Bohua Chinese School.
2012-2015,
Judge and Volunteer Counselor, Science Fair, Summit Middle School, BVSD.
2009-2013, Judge,
Science Fair, High Peaks Elementary School, BVSD.
2011-2012,
Volunteer Teacher, Math Olympiad, High Peaks Elementary School, BVSD.
UNIVERSITY SERVICES
Reverse
Chronical List of my Services to the Department of Mechanical Engineering
·
Faculty Search Committee, Department of
Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2015 – Spring 2016.
·
Faculty Search Committee, Department of
Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2014 – Spring 2015.
·
Executive
Committee, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2014.
·
Strategic
Planning Committee, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2014.
·
Personnel
Committee, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2013 - Summer 2014
·
Faculty Search Committee, Department of
Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2011 - Spring 2012
·
Undergraduate Committee, Department of
Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2011 – Spring 2012
· Undergraduate Committee, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2010 – Spring 2011
· Graduate Committee, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2009 – Spring 2010
· Graduate Committee, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2008 – Spring 2009
· Graduate Committee, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2007 – Spring 2008
· Graduate Committee, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2006 – Spring 2007
· Chair of Departmental Seminars, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2007 – Spring 2009
Reverse
Chronical List of my Services to the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
and the University
·
Member, Faculty Research Committee, College of
Engineering (led by Associate Dean for Research, Professor Scott Palo), Fall
2015 – present.
·
Member, College-wide Committee for Colorado
Nanofabrication Labs (CNL), Fall 2015 - present.
·
Faculty Fellow, Materials Science and Engineering
Program, Fall 2012 – present.
·
Faculty Affiliate, CU/NREL Renewable and Sustainable Energy
Institute (RASEI) Fall 2009 – present
·
Member, Task Force for Campus Materials
Initiative, Fall 2010-Spring 2012
·
Dean's
Blue Ribbon Committee-Major Proposals, Summer 2012
·
APPM Review Subcommittee, College of Engineering
and Applied Sciences, Fall 2010 – Spring 2011
· Reviewer for Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Proposals.
· Reviewer for CU Innovation Seed Grant program.
SELECTED
POPULAR PRESS & PRESS RELEASE
US Department of Defense Press Release on the selection:
The University of Colorado Boulder will have a budget of $4M ($2M
federal and $2M cost-sharing) over the coming 5 years to strengthen its efforts
on flexible hybrid electronics, including packaging (barrier, power, and
thermal management), innovative materials, and flexible bio-sensors.
Daily Camera: http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_28699868/cu-boulder-receives-3m-grant-study-power-plant
Daily Camera: http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_27585407/cu-boulder-professors-team-pushes-ultra-thin-smartphones
Electronics Cooling: http://www.electronics-cooling.com/2015/02/ultra-thin-flexible-thermal-management-device-commercialized/
CU Boulder Electrical Engineering News about this award:
http://ecee.colorado.edu/featured-story/ECEE-LittleBox-Afridi-0115.html
·
A Press Release in September 2013
titled “CU awarded $3.6 million for new way to produce magnesium for
auto” about a ARPA-E funded
project:
ARPA-E Announcement of its selection for the METALS (Modern Electro/Thermochemical Advancements for
Light-metal Systems) program:
http://arpa-e.energy.gov/?q=arpa-e-news-item/remote-and-metals-project-selections
· ASME Emerging Nano Newsletter summer 2013 inaugural issue highlights “Emerging Researcher: Ronggui Yang Explores Nanoscale Transport Phenomena”
· A Press Release in October 2012 titled “UH collaborates to solve device
overheating issues”
by University of Houston highlighting a paper published in Nano Letters
(Vol. 12, pp 3385–3390, 2012) led by me:
http://thedailycougar.com/2012/10/10/uh-collaborates-to-solve-device-overheating-issues/
“Professor Uses Nanowires to Cool Electronics”
http://www.egr.uh.edu/news/201209/professor-uses-nanowires-cool-electronics
A
follow-up news “Nanostructures
May Solve Cooling Issues of Tiny Future Electronics” by
Electronics-Cooling.com
· A Press Release in August 2012 titled “Grain boundary defects affect
graphene's strength” by Nanotechweb.org on our work published in Nature
Materials: http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/50491#
· JILA
Report on Nature Materials paper:
http://jila.colorado.edu/content/ballistic-evidence
·
August 18,
2010, ASME Press Release for the ASME Bergles-Rohsenow
Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer, “Ronggui
Yang Honored for Contributions in the Heat Transfer Field”. http://www.asme.org/Governance/Honors/Releases/Ronggui_Yang_Honored.cfm
·
Press Release
by National Academy of Engineering for being selected to the NAE's 2009 U.S. Frontiers of
Engineering Symposium.
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=06252009b
·
AFOSR Press Release
for MIT Technology Review’s TR35 Award (September 08, 2008)
“Engineer's energy research could
cut costs, increase efficiency”
http://www.afmc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123114201
·
CU Press Release for
MIT Technology Review’s TR35 Award (August 19, 2008):
“CU-Boulder Engineering Professor Named
One of World's Top 35 Young Innovators”
http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/9b0ff83babc043e1d1c4b6ff5fbfa353.html
Speaker for Technology Review’s EmTech
2008 Conference:
http://www.technologyreview.com/emtech/08/speakers.aspx
Selected Media Reports:
http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/aug/19/cu-prof-named-top-young-innovator/
http://www.coloradodaily.com/news/2008/aug/19/cu-prof-named-top-young-innovator/?printer=1
·
Graduate student Mark
Siemens’ work on “Soft X-Ray Probe for Nanoscale Heat Transfer” was highlighted
in the Physics Update of the monthly American Physical Society member magazine
Physics Today in July 2008 issue, p.17 (July 2008)
http://ptonline.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_61/iss_7/16_1.shtml
·
CU Press Release for
DARPA Thermal Ground Plane Project (May 7th, 2008)
http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/48198905b2ed67272af5d67343ad3078.html
also appear at: http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=29236
·
CU Press Release for
DARPA Young Faculty Award, (April 15, 2008)
http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/a39f3714c24d3b66a94fafd9ba05b04f.html
http://www.sae.org/automag/material/10-2006/1-114-10-38.Web
Link
· MIT News on the InterPack2005 Best Paper Award and Goldsmid Award
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/aandh-aug16.html