Experience

Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc.

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• R&D Engineer II

  • Sep 2016 - Present



Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

• United States
• Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Intern

  • Apr 2016 - Jul 2016



Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Associate

  • Oct 2015 - Mar 2016

  Collaborated with other postdocs to fabricate polyethylene (UHMWPE) films with high thermal conductivity. Optimized the film synthesis conditions to achieve world-record high thermal conductivity in polymer films.

• Research Assistant

  • Mar 2011 - Sep 2015

  • Developed different solution formulas to prepare uniform graphite-polymer composite films. Investigated the complex thermal conductivity behavior of polymer composite films at different draw ratios and graphite loadings. • Modeled the transient heat transfer process of a multilayer material heated by a short pulse of laser.• Investigated the thermal charging phenomenon in electrical double layer capacitors. Proposed a mechanism to explain this phenomenon and factors that affect the thermally charged voltage. • Collaborated with interdisciplinary scientists from MIT, UC Berkeley, UT Austin and Ford Company to design advanced thermo-adsorptive battery (ATB) used in electrical vehicles for climate control. Proposed and experimentally demonstrated using metallic foam to increase the thermal conductivity of adsorption bed (achieved ~3.5W/mK, project goal: >1W/mK) while maintain good mechanical strength. • Investigated the complex thermo-rheological properties of graphite suspensions. Show less

• Research Mentor

  • Jun 2011 - Aug 2014

  • Supervised two undergraduate students for their Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. • Supervised a high school student on his course project, which entered competitions including Intel Science Talent Search, Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, and New York City Science and Engineering Fair.

• Research Assistant

  • Sep 2008 - Feb 2011

  • Investigated the heat conduction mechanisms in nanofluids and suspensions. Discovered the thermal percolation behavior in graphite suspensions for the first time and investigated this behavior using combined optical microscopy and Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) techniques.• Collaborated with other scientists and proposed a method to regulate electrical and thermal conductivity of graphite composite through first-order phase transition. Attracted a company’s interests for commercialization, explored possible applications as electrical fuse, and tested different host materials. Show less