Principal Investigator PROFESSOR LI SHI Professor of Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering and Texas Materials Institute Ernest Cockrell Sr. Chair in Engineering Cockrell School of Engineering The University of Texas at Austin https://www.me.utexas.edu/people/faculty-directory/shi Email: lishi at mail dot utexas dot edu EDUCATION Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, May 2001 Dissertation: Mesoscopic Thermophysical Measurements of Microstructures and Carbon Nanotubes. Supervisor: Arun Majumdar M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, August 1997 Thesis: An Experimental Study of Spray Combustion with Porous Inserts. Supervisor: Robert E. Peck B.ENG. Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, July 1991 Thesis: An Experimental Study of a Large-Capacity, Low-Polution Pulverized Coal Combustor APPOINTMENTS September 2011- Present Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin September 2006 – August 2011 Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin January 2002 – August 2006 Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin March 2001 – January 2002 Research Staff Member, IBM Research Division July 1991 – August 1995 Assistant Engineer, Guangdong Electrical Power Test and Research Institute, Guangzhou, China OTHER AFFILIATIONS Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Studies Committee Member, Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin Biomedical Engineering Graduate Studies Committee Member, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas Faculty Fellow, Center for Nano and Molecular Science and Technology, Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin Member, Microelectronic Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Member, Advanced Manufacturing and Design Center, The University of Texas at Austin HONORS, AWARDS, RECOGNITIONS Yeram S. Touloukian Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024 MRS Distinguished Invited Speaker, Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting (2024) Alan Chapman Lectureship, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, 2024 Ernest Cockrell Sr. Chair in Engineering #2,The University of Texas at Austin, 2020- Temple Foundation Endowed Professorship #4, The University of Texas at Austin, 2019-2020 Heat Transfer Memorial Award in Science, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2018 Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), 2016 Elected Fellow, American Physical Society, 2014 BF Goodrich Endowed Professorship in Materials Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2014-2021 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering, The Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Science of Texas, 2013 Elected Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013 Best Poster Award (together with Michael Pettes), MRS Fall Meeting, 2009 Myron L. Begeman Fellowship in Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2007-2014 ASME Transaction Journal of Heat Transfer Outstanding Reviewer, 2005 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award, 2004 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, 2003 IBM First Patent Application Invention Achievement Award, 2002 Guanghua Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 1990 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Editor-in-Chief: Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering (2013-2021) Editorial Board Member: Materials Today Physics (2017-present) Short Course Instruction: “Thermal Properties of Materials,” ASME Nano Training Boot Camp, 2004 “Thermal and Thermoelectric Characterization of Nanostructures,” Tutorial on Micro and Nano Scale Heat Transfer, 2003 ASME Int. Mechanical Eng. Congress & Exposition , November 2003 “Thermal Properties of Materials,” ASME Nano Training Boot Camp, Northwestern University, July 2003 “Review of Mesoscopic Thermal Transport Measurements,” Nano Thermal-Fluid Tutorial, 2001 ASME Int. Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, November 2001 Conference, Workshop, Symposium Organizer: NSF Workshop on Emerging Opportunities at the Intersection of Quantum and Thermal Sciences, June 28-30, 2021 APS March Meeting Focus Topic Thermoelectric Phenomena, Materials, Devices, and Applications, March 20-22, 2013 7th US-Japan Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena, December 2011 MRS Fall Meeting Symposium on Functional Nanotubes and Nanowires, November 29-December 2, 2011 ASME 3rd International Energy Nanotechnology Conference, August 2008 Workshop on Nanotechnologies for Solar and Thermal Energy Conversion and Storage, August 2008 MRS Spring Meeting Symposium on Coupled Mechanical, Electrical, and Thermal Behaviors of Nanomaterials, April 2008 Conference Section Chair: Section Chair, MRS Fall Meeting Symposium on Thermal Energy—Transfer, Conversion and Storage, November 27, 2017 Section Chair, MRS Spring Meeting Symposium on Heat Nanoscale Heat Transport: From Fundamentals to Devices, April 19, 2017 Section Chair, MRS Fall 2015 Meeting Symposium on Synthesis and Applications of Nanowires and Hybrid 1D-0D/2D/3D Semiconductor Nanostructures, November 30, 2015 Section Chair, 2015 International Graphene Innovation Conference Symposium B6: Medical Applications, October 30, 2015 Track Chair, ASME 3rd Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference, March, 2012 Section Chair, 29th International Conference on Thermoelectrics, Shanghai, China, May 30-June 3, 2010 Section Chair, US-Korea Forum on Nanotechnology Convergence in Energy for Green Growth, April 2010 Section Chair, MRS Fall 2009 Meeting Symposium on Multifunctionality Through Nanowires, December 2009 Section Chair, 6th US-Japan Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena, July 2008 Section Chair, 2008 APS March Meeting Focused Section on Thermoelectricity in Semiconductor Nanostructures, March 2008 Session Chair, AIAA/ASME 2006 Joint Thermophysics Heat Transfer Conference, San Francisco, June 2006 Session Chair, ASME 2005 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, San Francisco, July 2005 Session Chair, IEEE 21th Semiconductor Thermal Measurement, Modeling, and Management (SEMI-THERM) Symposium, San Jose, March 2005 Session Co-Chair, 4th US-Japan Nanotherm Workshop, Berkeley, June 2002 MEMBERSHIP American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) American Physical Society (APS) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Materials Research Society (MRS) TEACHING ME 139L Experimental Heat Laboratory ME 339 Heat Transfer ME 381R 3 Radiative Heat Transfer ME 381R 7 Nanoscale Energy Transport and Conversion
