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I am a postdoctoral scholar in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, working with Eric Pop, with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, advised by Xiulin Ruan.
My research develops foundational theories of thermal and electrical transport for energy and computing technologies.
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My research aims to address three connected questions:
Transport Physics and Modeling of Emerging Two-dimensional Transistor and Devices
**Thermal Transport via Four-Phonon and Exciton-Phonon Interactions in Layered Electronic and Optoelectronic Materials (Theory part)**
Collaborators: Prof. Li Shi, Dr. Xun Li, Peter Sokalski and Chuting Cai (UT Austin), Krutarth Khot (Purdue)
**FourPhonon: A Computational Tool for High-Order Phonon Anharmonicity and Thermal Properties (Lead)**
Version 2 development is now supported by NSF CSSI Elements program
Collaborators: Prof. Guang Lin and Ziqi Guo (Purdue), Wenjiang Zhou (Peking Univ.)
**High-Order Phonon Scattering and Highly Nonequilibrium Carrier Transport in Two-dimensional Electronic and Optoelectronic Materials (Theory part)**
Collaborators: Prof. Li Shi and Peter Sokalski (UT Austin)
[Prediction-guided Hierarchically Structured Coatings for High Temperature Thermal Radiation Control](https://www.darpa.mil/program/thermal-engineering-using-metamaterial#:~:text=The Thermal Engineering using Metamaterial,spectrum in extreme thermal conditions.) (Thermal theory part)
Collaborators: Prof. Amy Marconnet, Prof. Peter Bermel, Prof. Haiyan Wang (Purdue) and Changkyun Lee, Zixin Xiong, Jiawei Song
Development of computational tool for four-phonon scattering and thermal conductivity in solids (Lead)
Collaborators: Prof. Xiaolong Yang (Univ. Chongqing), Prof. Wu Li (Shenzhen Univ.), Prof. Tianli Feng (Univ. Utah)
You can find details of these works in the research page. The above lists/names are not exhausted.
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