College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Interests:
Thermal sciences; Heat transfer; Phase-change heat transfer; Thermal storage; Thermal management
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Bio:
Professor Ronggui Yang is currently a Chair Professor at Peking University, School of Engineering, and an expert in engineering thermophysics. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Energy and Power Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University (1996), a Master's in Thermal Engineering from Tsinghua University (1999), a Master's in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (2001), and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2006).Before joining Peking University in May 2024, Professor Yang was a professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2018-2024) and held a distinguished academic career at the University of Colorado Boulder (2006-2018), where he served as Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor. He has received numerous awards, including the 2020 Nukiyama Memorial Award, the 2017 Physics World's "Top 10 Physics Breakthroughs," the 2014 International Thermoelectrics Society Young Scholar Award, and the 2009 NSF CAREER Award.
Professor Yang's research focuses on heat transfer, thermal management, and energy conversion, particularly in high-power electronics, zero-energy cooling, and optothermal integration. His work has significantly advanced understanding in these areas, with over 260 publications in top-tier journals, including Science, Nature Materials, Science Advances, Joule, and Review of Modern Physics. His research has been cited over 28,000 times (Web of Science) and over 37,000 times (Google Scholar), with an H-index of 80 and 91, respectively.
He has led and participated in more than 40 research projects funded by major U.S. federal agencies and has secured national research grants in China for projects in thermal materials, energy storage, and low-grade heat recovery. He was selected as one of the "Global High-Impact Scientists" by Clarivate Analytics and has been recognized as a "Highly Cited Researcher" and a "Top 2% Scientist" by Stanford University.