Dr. Zhang’s Biography

Professor Zhang’s research interests are in micro/nanoscale thermal radiation and radiative properties of micro/nanostructures, with applications to radiation thermometry for semiconductor manufacturing and energy conversion. He has made important contributions to the theory and measurements of spectral radiative properties of solids and thin films, micro/nanostructures including photonic crystals, gratings, carbon nanotube arrays, metamaterials, two-dimensional materials, etc. He has published over 200 archival journal papers and invited book chapters. He has given more than 400 invited and contributed presentations and seminars at international conferences and universities around the world. Dr. Zhang is the author of Nano/Microscale Heat Transfer (1st ed. 2007; 2nd ed. 2020), which has been adopted by many universities worldwide and translated into Chinese in 2016. He has supervised a large number of Ph.D. and M.S. students, visiting scholars, postdoctoral fellows, and undergraduate researchers. Many of his former students and visiting scholars have established successful careers at major universities and industries in the United States, China, and South Korea. Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of ASME, APS, and AAAS, and an Associate Fellow of AIAA. He was a recipient of the 1999 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the 2015 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award, the 2021 AIAA Thermophysics Award, and the 2021 ASME Yeram S. Touloukian Award. He has also received several best paper awards with his students and collaborators, including the ASME Heat Transfer Division’s Best Paper Award (2000), the AIAA Thermophysics Best Paper Award (2005), and ICHMT’s Hartnett-Irvine Award (2010; 2019).

June 1992 –
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA
Major: Heat Transfer; Minor: Optoelectronics. Advisor: Markus I. Flik

July 1985 –
M.S., Engineering Thermophysics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, P.R. China Advisor: Xin-Shi Ge

July 1982 –
B.S., Engineering Thermophysics, USTC, Hefei, P.R. China

7/07-present
Professor, G. W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

8/02-6/07
Associate Professor, G. W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

9/95-8/02
Assistant Professor (9/95-8/00), Associate Professor (8/00-8/02), Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

9/92-8/95
Guest Scientist and Project Leader, Optical Technology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD; also Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

9/89-8/92
Graduate Research Assistant (9/89-5/92) and Research Associate (6/92-8/92), Cryogenic Engineering Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT

9/82-8/89
Graduate Research Assistant (9/82-5/85), Research Assistant (6/85-10/87), and Lecturer (11/87-8/89), Department of Engineering Thermophysics, USTC

Chair (2000-03), ASME K18 Committee on Low-Temperature Heat Transfer.

Chair (2009-2012), ASME HTD K7 Committee on Thermophysical Properties; also Vice-Chair (2009-2012), ASME/AIChE Joint Committee on Thermophysical Properties.

Founding Chair (2012-2015), ASME HTD K9 Committee on Nanoscale Thermal Transport.

Member (2006-2015), Touloukian Award Committee, ASME.

Member (since 2014), Scientific Council of the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT).

President (2018-2020) & Vice-President (2016-2018), Georgia Tech Chapter of Sigma Xi.

Member (2020-2022), Board Member, Nukiyama Memorial Award, the Heat Transfer Society of Japan.

Lead Guest Editor (with M. Pinar Menguc) of a special issue on Nano/microscale Radiative Transfer in ASME Journal of Heat Transfer (Vol. 129, January 2007).

Lead Guest Editor (with P.M. Norris and G.P. Peterson) Special Issue on Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer, Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 135, September 2013.

Lead Guest Editor (with S. Maruyama, A. Sakurai, and M. P. Mengüç) Special Issue on Micro- and Nano-Scale Radiative Transfer, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, Vol. 132, January 2014.

Lead Guest Editor (with L.H. Liu, Q.Z. Zhu, and M. P. Mengüç) Special Issue on the Second International Workshop on Micro- and Nano-Scale Thermal Radiation, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, Vol. 158, June 2015.

Lead Guest Editor (with C. Yang and D.Y. Tzou) Special Issue on Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer, Journal of Heat Transfer, Part I, Vol. 139, May 2017 & Part II, Vol. 140, January 2018.

Co-Guest Editor (with C.Y. Zhao and X. Zhang) Special Issue: Nanotechnology in Energy, Frontiers in Energy, Vol. 12, February 2018.

Co-Guest Editor (with H.B. Ma and Y. Jaluria) Special Issue on Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer, Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 142, p. 070301, 2020.

Associate Editor, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, since January 2007. Publisher: Elsevier.

Associated Editor, Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer (2007-2012; 2018-present). Publisher: AIAA.

Member on the Editorial Board (2007-2012) and Associate Editor (2013-2015), International Journal of Thermophysics. Publisher: Springer.

Member on the Editorial Board, Frontiers in Energy, since January 2009. Publisher: Springer.

Member of the Editorial Board, Emerging Materials Research, since January 2012. Publisher: ICE Publishing.

Associated Editor, Journal of Heat Transfer (2012-2018). Publisher: ASME.

Co-Editor-in-Chief (with V. Prasad and Y. Jaluria), Annual Review of Heat Transfer (2019-). Publisher: Begell House.

Technical Program Chair, 37th AIAA Thermophysics Conference, Portland, OR, June 28 – July 1, 2004 (handled over 120 abstracts and papers).

Co-Chair (Program Chair), 2nd Integration and Commercialization of Micro and Nanosystems Int’l Conference and Exhibition, Hong Kong, China, June 3-5, 2008 (over 200 attendees).

Vice-Chair (Solids), 17th Symposium on Thermophysical Properties, Boulder, CO, June 21-26, 2009 (over 560 attendees).

Program Chair, 3rd ASME Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer International Conference (MNHMT2012), Atlanta, GA, March 3-6, 2012. (over 320 attendees).

Co-Chair (Local Organizer), NSF/ONR Workshop on Nano/Microscale Heat & Mass Transport, Atlanta, GA, March 4, 2012 (over 70 attendees).

Co-Chair (with Shigenao Maruyama), International Workshop on Nano-Micro Thermal Radiation, Matsushima Bay Area, Miyagi, Japan, May 23-25, 2012.

Chair (with Q.Z. Zhu and L.H. Liu), Second International Workshop on Nano-Micro Thermal Radiation, Shanghai, China, June 6-9, 2014 (over 80 attendees).

Conference General Chair, 5th ASME Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer International Conference, Singapore, January 4-6, 2016 (over 300 attendees).

Invited Participant of the National Academy of Engineering Seventh Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering, March 1-3, 2002, Beckman Center in Irvine, CA.

Invited Panelist (with travel support), NSF Workshop on Frontiers in Transport Phenomena Research and Education, U. Connecticut, Storrs, CT, May 17-18, 2007.

Keynote Speaker, Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics – Heat and Mass Transfer Annual Meeting, Zhengzhou, China, November 1-4, 2008.

Keynote Speaker, the Ninth Asian Thermophysical Properties Conference (ATPC2010), Beijing, China, October 19-22, 2010.

Keynote Speaker, 4th ASME Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference (MNHMT 2013), Hong Kong, China, December 11-14, 2013.

Keynote Speaker, 8th US-Japan Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena – Science and Engineering, Santa Cruz, CA, July 13-16, 2014.

Keynote Speaker, 2nd Micro/Nanoscale Heat Transfer and Energy Workshop, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, July 1, 2015.

Keynote Speaker, Fourth International Conference on Computational Methods for Thermal Problems, Atlanta, GA, July 6-8, 2016.

Keynote Speaker, Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2016), Shanghai, China, August 8-11, 2016.

Keynote Speaker, 9th International Symposium on Heat Transfer (ISHT-9), Beijing, China, August 15-19, 2016.

Plenary Speaker, First Asian Conference on Thermal Sciences (1st ACTS 2017), Jeju Island, South Korea, March 26-30, 2017.

Plenary Speaker, 3rd International Workshop on Nano-Micro Thermal Radiation (NanoRad2017), Daejeon, South Korea, June 26-28, 2017.

Keynote Speaker, International Symposium on Measurement Technology in Thermal Science and Engineering (MTTSE), Dalian, China, November 10-13, 2017.

Keynote/Plenary Speaker, 6th ASME International Conference of Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer (MNHMT 2019), Dalian, China, July 8-10.

Interdisciplinary Research Initiative (IRI) Award, University of Florida, 1996.

Outstanding Teacher Award from Pi Tau Sigma Honor Society of Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Students, 1997.

Junior Faculty Research Award from the UF Chapter of Sigma Xi, 1999.

1999 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the White House; and 1999 CAREER Award, NSF.

2000 ASME Heat Transfer Division Best Paper Award.

2005 AIAA Thermophysics Best Paper Award.

Advisor of Bong Jae Lee, recipient of the Georgia Tech Chapter Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, 2008.

Advisor of Soumyadipta Basu, recipient of the Georgia Tech Chapter Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, 2010.

Advisor of Trevor Bright, recipient of the Georgia Tech Chapter Sigma Xi Best M.S. Thesis Award, 2010.

2010 ICHMT Hartnett-Irvine Award.

2015 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award (Science Category).

Advisor of Xianglei Liu, recipient of the Georgia Tech Chapter Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, 2017.

Co-Advisor of Eric J. Tervo, recipient of the Georgia Tech Chapter Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, 2020.

Guest Professor, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 2009-2012.

Overseas Scholar, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai, 2012-2014.

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Oversees Expert, Beijing, 2015-2018.

Guest Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 2017-2020.

Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), since 2005.

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), since 2010.

Fellow, American Physical Society (APS), since 2015.

Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

Member, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)

Member, Sigma Xi – The Scientific Research Society.