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    Li Shi

    Associate Professor and Myron L. Begeman Fellowship 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/~lishi

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

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 2006 - present             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               Engineer, 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

• Faculty Fellow, Center for Nano and Molecular Science and Technology, Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin

HONORS AND AWARDS

• 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: (i)  "Review of Mesoscopic Thermal Transport Measurements," Nano Thermal-Fluid Tutorial , 2001 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition;  (ii) "Thermal Properties of Materials," ASME Nano Training Boot Camp, Northwestern University, July 2003; (iii) "Thermal and Thermoelectric Characterization of Nanostructures," Tutorial on Micro and Nano Scale Heat Transfer, 2003 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition; (iv) "Thermal Properties of Materials," ASME Nano Training Boot Camp, Evanston, July 2004

• Conferences Organized/Chaired: (i) Section chair, 4th US-Japan Nanotherm Workshop, Berkeley (June 2002); (ii) Section chair, IEEE 21th SEMI-THERM Symposium, San Jose (2005); (iii) Section chair, ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference (2005) ; (iv) Section chair, AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysics Heat Transfer Conference (2006) ; (v) Program Committee Member, 2nd International Energy Nanotechnology Conference (2007); (vi) Symposium Organizer, MRS Spring Meeting Symposium on Coupled Mechanical, Electrical, and Thermal Behaviors of Nanomaterials (2008) ; (vii) Section Chair, APS March Meeting Focused Section on Thermoelectricity in Semiconductor Nanostructures (2008) ; (viii) Program Chair, ASME 3rd International Energy Nanotechnology Conference (2008).

• Editorial Board Member: International Journal of Nanotechnology

• Journal Manuscript Review: Advanced Drug Delivery Review; Advanced Materials; Applied Physics Letters; International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer; Journal of Applied Physics; Journal of the American Chemical Society; Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering; Journal of Electronic Packaging; Journal of Heat Transfer; Journal of Microscale Thermophysical Engineering; Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics; Langmuir; Measurement Science and Technology; Nano Letters; Nature Materials; Physical Review Letters; Science; Sensors and Actuators A: Physical; Thin Solid Films

MEMBERSHIP

• AAAS

• APS

• ASME

• MRS

TEACHING

• ME 139L Experimental Heat Laboratory

• ME 339 Heat Transfer

• ME 381R Micro-Nano Scale Thermal-Fluid Science and Technology

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