Sili Deng

Research Interests

• Energy conversion: high-efficiency low-emission engines, waste heat recovery, energetic materials, photoelectrochemical devices
• Flame synthesis: flame-based/flameless synthesis of nanomaterials for sensing, solar cell, and photoelectrochemical devices
• Combustion: chemical kinetics, flame dynamics and combustion instability, pollutant formation and reduction
• Multiphase chemically reacting flows: experimentation and computational fluid dynamics (CFD)

Honors + Awards

• Bernard Lewis Fellowship, Combustion Institute, 2016
• Gordon Wu Prize for Excellence, Princeton University, 2014
• Excellence in Teaching Award, Princeton Univerisity, 2014
• Princeton Energy and Climate Scholarship,  Princeton University, 2013
• Princeton University Graduate Fellowship, Princeton University, 2010
• Best Bachelor Thesis Award, Tsinghua University, 2010

Related Experience

• Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT (Starting 01/2019)
• Visiting Scientist, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, 06/2017-Present
• Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 09/2016-Present
• Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, 09/2010-09/2016
• McGraw Graduate Teaching Fellow, McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, Princeton University, 05/2014-09/2016
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, 02/2013-09/2016
• Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, 08/2008-07/2010

Memberships

• Combustion Institute
• American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics
• Materials Research Society

Publications

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=l-IHllAAAAAJ&hl=en