Gang Chen

Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering
Director, Pappalardo Micro and Nano Engineering Laboratories
Director, DOE EFRC: Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC Center)

Room 3-260
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02139-4307
Phone: 617-253-0006
Fax: 617-324-5519
Email: gchen2@mit.edu
Web: http://web.mit.edu/nanoengineering

Curriculum Vitae

Administrative Contact:
Tuyet-Mai Ha Hoang
Room 3-258
Phone: 617-253-7413
Email: mhoangha@mit.edu

Research Interests

Micro- and nanoscale heat transfer and energy conversion with applications in thermoelectrics, photovoltaics, solar thermal-energy to electrical energy conversion; and microelectronics; nano-mechanical devices and micro-electro-mechanical systems; radiation and electromagnetic metamaterials, nanoengineered high thermal conductivity soft matters (polymers, colloids, and liquids), and desalination.

Teaching Interests

Heat transfer, thermodynamics, micro/nano transport and technology, radiation.

Education

B.S., 1984, M.S. 1987, Huazhong University of Science and Technology;
1993 Ph.D. UC Berkeley

Selected Honors and Awards

Fellow, American Physical Society, 2012

DSE Desalination Listed by Scientific American as Top 10 World Changing Ideas, 2012

Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellences in Mentoring and Advising, MIT, 2011

Member, National Academy of Engineering, 2010

High Thermal Conductivity Polymer Listed as Top 10 Breakthrough by J. Assoc. Lab. Automation, 2010

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2009

Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering, 2009-

ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award, 2008

R&D 100 Award, 2008

Warren and Towneley Rohsenow Professor, 2006-2009

Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006

Guggenheim Fellow, 2002-2003
National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, 1994
Warren Faculty Scholar, Duke University, 1996-1997

Professional Activities

Area Head: Micro/Nano Engineering, MIT ME Department, 2005-2009, 2011-2012

Co-Editor: Annual Review of Heat Transfer
Editor, Journal of Nanomaterials
Editor: Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering
Editor: Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience

Associate Editor: Journal of Heat Transfer, 2002-2005
Chair, Advisory Board, ASME Nanotechnology Institute, 2005-2008

Member: Advisory Committee, Applied Science Center, Academia Sinica