Xianfan Xu

Xianfan Xu

James J. and Carol L. Shuttleworth Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (by Courtesy)

Location: West Lafayette

School of Mechanical Engineering
Purdue University
585 Purdue Mall
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2088
xxu@purdue.edu

Office: BRK 2023

Phone: +1 765 49-45639

Websites

Degrees

  • B.S. University of Science and Technology of China, '89
  • M.S. California-Berkeley, '91
  • Ph.D. California-Berkeley, '94

Research Interests

  • Nanoscale energy transport
  • Nano-optics and laser-based nano-optical engineering

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Application Area(s)

Awards and Recognitions

  • Russell Severance Springer Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of California at Berkeley, 2019 – 2020
  • Fellow, the Optical Society of America, 2017
  • 2015 ASME Heat Transfer Division Best Paper Award to the paper Wang, Y., Qiu, B., McGaughey, A., Ruan, X., and Xu, X., 2013, Mode-Wise Thermal Conductivity of Bismuth Telluride, J. Heat Trans. Vol. 135, p.091102
  • Editor’s choice of ten significant articles published in 2013 and 2014 in Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, Luo, Z., Liu, H., Spann, B., Feng, Y., Ye, P., Chen, Y.P., and Xu, X., 2014, Measurement of In-plane Thermal Conductivity of Ultra-thin Films using Micro-Raman Spectroscopy, Vol. 12, pp. 183-193, DOI: 10.1080/15567265.2014.892553
  • ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award, 2014
  • Purdue University, School of Mechanical Engineering Ruth and Joel Spira Award, October 2013
  • IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society Outstanding Paper Award, 2012
  • James J. and Carol L. Shuttleworth Professor of Mechanical Engineering, 2010
  • Fellow, SPIE - the International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2009
  • Purdue University, School of Mechanical Engineering Discovery in Mechanical Engineering (DME) Award, October 2009.
  • Fellow, ASME - the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, July 2006
  • Purdue University B.F.S. Schaefer Young Faculty Scholar Award, 2002
  • Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, May 2000
  • GM Faculty Fellowship, 1995, 1996
  • National Science Foundation Faculty CAREER Award, August 1996

Selected Publications

Link to List of Publications