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Professor Li Shi

Myron L. Begeman Fellow in Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering

The University of Texas at Austin

1 University Station, ETC 7.140, Mail Code: C2200

Austin, TX 78712-0292     

Tel: (512) 471-3109; Fax: (512) 471-1045

Email: lishi@mail.utexas.edu; http://www.me.utexas.edu/directory/faculty/shi/li

The above address is for US Postal Mails. Shipping address for private couriers (UPS, FEDEX, DHL, etc): ETC Building, University of Texas at Austin, 204 E. Dean Keeton St., Austin, Texas 78712

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D.          Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, May 2001

       Dissertation:  Mesoscopic Thermophysical Measurements of Microstructures and Carbon Nanotubes (PDF)

M.S.           Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, August 1997

                   Thesis: An Experimental Study of Spray Combustion with Porous Inserts

B.E.            Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, July 1991  

   

APPOINTMENTS

September 2011-                          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               Engineering Staff Member, Guangdong Electrical Power Test and Research Institute, Guangzhou, P. R. 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 Center, The University of Texas at Austin

HONORS, AWARDS, AND RECOGNITIONS

• Best Poster Award (together with Michael Pettes), MRS Fall Meeting, 2009

• University of Texas at Austin Myron L. Begeman Fellowship in Engineering, 2007-

• 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      

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES  

• Short Course Instruction:

  • "Review of Mesoscopic Thermal Transport Measurements," Nano Thermal-Fluid Tutorial , 2001 ASME Int. Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition
  • "Thermal Properties of Materials," ASME Nano Training Boot Camp, Northwestern University, July 2003
  • "Thermal and Thermoelectric Characterization of Nanostructures," Tutorial on Micro and Nano Scale Heat Transfer, 2003 ASME Int. Mechanical Eng. Congress & Exposition
  • "Thermal Properties of Materials," ASME Nano Training Boot Camp, 2004

• Conference, Worshop, Symposium Organizer:

   7^th US-Japan Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena, December 2011
  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
  2008 MRS Spring Meeting Symposium on Coupled Mechanical, Electrical, and Thermal Behaviors of Nanomaterials, April 2008

• Conference Section Chair:

• Track Chair, ASME 3rd Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference, March, 2012
• Section Chair, 29^th 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, 6^th 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 21^th Semiconductor Thermal Measurement, Modeling, and Management (SEMI-THERM) Symposium, San Jose, March 2005
• Session Co-Chair, 4^th US-Japan Nanotherm Workshop, Berkeley, June 2002

• Associate Editor: Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering

• Journal Manuscript Review:

  ACS Nano

  Advanced Functional Materials

  Advanced Drug Delivery Review

  Applied Physics Letters

  Energy & Environmental Science

  IEEE Nano

  Journal of Applied Physics

  International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

  Journal of the American Chemical Society

  Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

  Journal of Electronic Packaging

  Journal of Electronic Materials

  Journal of Heat Transfer

  Journal of Microscale Thermophysical Engineering

  Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

  Langmuir

  Macromolecules

  Measurement Science and Technology

  Materials Today

  Nanotechnology

  Nano Letters

  Nano Research

  Nature Materials

  Nature Nanotechnology
  Physical Review Letters
  Physical Review B
  Sensors and Actuators A: Physical
  Science
  Thin Solid Films

MEMBERSHIP

• AAAS

• APS

• ASME

• MRS

TEACHING

• ME 139L Experimental Heat Laboratory

• ME 339 Heat Transfer

• ME 381R Nanoscale Energy Transport and Conversion

• ME381R 3 Radiation Heat Transfer
  

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