Conference Talks & Papers

In situ Optical Observations of Degradation of Thermal Greases with Thermal Cycling
2023 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), Orlando, FL, May 30 - June 2, 2023.

DOI: 10.1109/ITherm55368.2023.10177650
Influence of Thermal Cycling on Degradation Behavior of Thermal Greases
2023 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), Orlando, FL, May 30 - June 2, 2023.

DOI: 10.1109/ITherm55368.2023.10177495
A New Thermal Management Figure of Merit for Phase Change Materials (PCMs) Selection Considering Geometry
2023 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), Orlando, FL, May 30 - June 2, 2023.
Metrology for characterization of low thermal resistance and deeply buried interfaces between bonded layers
2023 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), Orlando, FL, May 30 - June 2, 2023.
Deep Learning for Real-Time Chip Temperature and Power Predictions
2023 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), Orlando, FL, May 30 - June 2, 2023.

2022
Anisotropic Thermal Property Characterization Using Infrared Imaging
ASME INTERPACK 2022, Garden Grove, CA, 25 – 27 October, 2022.
Data-Driven Rheological Characterization of Thermal Interface Materials
93rd Annual Meeting of The Society of Rheology, Chicago, IL, 9 – 13 October, 2022.
Optimal Operating Temperatures for a Variable-Temperature Thermal Energy Storage System
Herrick Conferences, West Lafayette, IN, July 10-14, 2022.
Engineering Nanostructures to Control Phonon Transport
Thermal Transport at the Nanoscale, Telluride, CO, 21-25 June 2022.
Enhancing the Boiling Heat Transfer Coefficient through Confinement
MicroFIP 2022, Irvine, CA, 20-23 June, 2022.
Wide Range Continuously Tunable and Fast Thermal Switching Based on Compressible Graphene Composite Foams
Materials Research Society Spring Meeting & Exhibit, Honolulu, HI, 23-25 May, 2022.
Transport Phenomena in Multi-Scale, Heterogeneous Materials & Systems
EuroSimE, Malta, April 25-27, 2022.
Engineering nanostructures to control phonon transport
APS March Meeting 2022, Chicago, IL, March 14-18, 2022.
Investigation of Thermal Properties and Thermal Reliability of Ga-based Low Melting Temperature Alloys as Thermal Interface Materials (TIMs)
2022 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, February 27–March 3, 2022 (Anaheim, CA) and March 14, 2022 (virtual).
Heat Transfer in High Temperature Metal Hydrides for Hypersonic Thermal Management
AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum, January 3 - 7, 2022. (Hybrid Virtual / San Diego, CA)
DOI: 10.2514/6.2022-1859

2021
Two-fluid models: A computational platform to analyze coupled thermal and shear effects in dense suspension flows
2021 Thermal Fluids Analysis Workshop (TFAWS), August 24 – 26, 2021. (Virtual)
Engineering Interfaces for Thermal Challenges
International Materials Research Congress, Aug. 15 - 19, 2021. (Hybrid Cancun / Virtual)
High Temperature Metal Hydrides for Hypersonic Thermal Management & Performance
June 2021 Joint Army-Navy-NASA-Air Force (JANNAF) Meeting, June 7 – 17, 2021. (virtual)
[Best Student Paper Award]
Impact of Squeezing on the Microstructure of Thermal Interface Materials
2021 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), 1 - 4 June, 2021. (virtual)
Two-Fluid Modeling of Dense Particulate Suspensions for Electronics Cooling
2021 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), 1 - 4 June, 2021. (virtual)
[Best Poster Award]
Experimental Characterization of Cascaded Vapor Chambers for Spreading of Non-Uniform Heat Loads
2021 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), 1 - 4 June, 2021. (virtual)
[Outstanding Poster Award]
Optimization of an Embedded Phase Change Material Cooling Strategy Using Machine Learning
2021 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), 1 - 4 June, 2021. (virtual)
[Best Poster Award]
Examination of a Metal-Hydride Energy Storage System for Year-Round Energy Storage in a Solar Home
202One Purdue Conferences, 24 - 28 May, 2021. (virtual)
Experimental Investigation of the Impact of Squeezing Process on the Microstructure and Performance of Thermal Interface Materials (TIMs)
37th Annual SEMI-THERM, March 22-26, 2021. (Virtual)

2020
Two fluid modeling of heat transfer in dense suspension flows in Couette cells
73rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Virtual Conference, November 22-24, 2020.
Combined Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Microstructure of Squeezed Thermal Interface Materials (TIMs)
Semi-therm Thermal Technologies Workshop (TTW) 2020, Nov 10-12, 2020 (virtual).
Toward Embedded Immersion Cooling for Thermal Management in Heterogeneous Packaging
International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems (INTERPACK), Virtual Conference, October 27 – 29, 2020.

A Cascaded Multi-Core Vapor Chamber for Intra-Lid Heat Spreading in Heterogeneous Packages
2020 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), virtual, July 21-23, 2020.

DOI: 10.1109/ITherm45881.2020.9190576
Confined Immersion Cooling in Microscale Gaps
2020 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), virtual, July 21-23, 2020.
DOI:10.1109/ITherm45881.2020.9190616

2019
Combined Experimental Numerical Investigation of Microstructure and Thermal Conduction in Dispensed and Squeezed Thermal Interface Materials
International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems (INTERPACK), Anaheim CA, 7-9 October, 2019.
Thermal Characterization of Composite Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene Fabrics
International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems (INTERPACK), Anaheim CA, 7-9 October, 2019.
Environmental Testing of a Temperature Regulator Based on Compressible Graphene Foams
International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems (INTERPACK), Anaheim CA, 7-9 October, 2019.
Cosmetically Adaptable Transparent Strain Sensor for Sensitively Delineating Patterns in Small Movements of Vital Human Organs
10th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT) 2019, Singapore, 23-28 June 2019
Tuning Thermal Transport
Thermal Transport at the Nanoscale, Telluride, CO, 16-20 June 2019.
Identifying Hot Spots in Electronics Packages with a Sensitivity-Coefficient Based Inverse Heat Conduction Method
2019 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITHERM), Las Vegas, NV, 2019.
DOI:10.1109/ITHERM.2019.8757292
Effect of Particle Arrangement on the Effective Thermal Conductivity of Polymer Composites
2019 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITHERM), Las Vegas, NV, 2019.
DOI:10.1109/ITHERM.2019.8757409
A Measurement Technique for Thermal Conductivity Characterization of Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene Yarns Using High-Resolution Infrared Microscopy
2019 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITHERM), Las Vegas, NV, 2019. [Outstanding Paper Award]
DOI:10.1109/ITHERM.2019.8757385
Poster: Membranes for Enhanced Evaporation
GRC Micro and Nanoscale Phase Change Heat Transfer, Lucca, Italy, 3-8 February 2019

2018
Characterizing Thermal Transport to Inform Process Design
AiMES 2018, Cancun, Mexico, 2018.
Infrared Microscopy for Characterizing Thermal Transport in Lithium-Ion Batteries
AiMES 2018, Cancun, Mexico, 2018.
Thermal Characterization of Lithium-Ion Batteries
InterPACK Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems, San Francisco, CA, 2018.
Experimental Validation of Inverse Methods Applied to Microelectronics
InterPACK Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems, San Francisco, CA, 2018.
Infrared Microscopy-Based Thermal Characterization of Lithium-Ion Battery Electrodes
2018 Thermal Fluids Analysis Workshop (TFAWS), Galveston, TX, 20 – 23 August 2018
Uncertainty Quantification for a High Temperature Z-meter Characterization System
2018 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITHERM), San Diego, CA, 2018.
DOI:10.1109/ITHERM.2018.8419511
Combined Experimental-Numerical Investigation of Metal-Wax Interactions for Phase Change Thermal Energy Storage
2018 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITHERM), San Diego, CA, 2018.
DOI: 10.1109/ITHERM.2018.8419487
Thermal Conductivity of Extremely Strained Polymer-Supported Au Nanofilms
Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, 2018.
Poster: Strain Engineering Thermal Conduction in Silicon Nanofilms
Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, 2018.
Poster: Energy Efficient Membrane Distillation through Localized Heating
2018 AEESP Distinguished Lecturer Conference, West Lafayette, IN, 2018.

2017
Heat on Hair: A Mechanical Engineering and User Needs Perspective
Innovation in Textured Hair Care, Weehawken, NJ, 2017.
Inverse Conduction Heat Transfer and Kriging Interpolation Applied to Temperature Sensor Locations in Microchips
InterPACK Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems, San Francisco, CA, 2017. [Outstanding Paper Award]
DOI:10.1115/IPACK2017-74224
Thermal Transport in Lithium Ion Battery Cells
InterPACK Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems, San Francisco, CA, 2017.
Thermal Transport in Mesoscale, Heterogeneous Systems
The 9th US-Japan Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena, Tokyo, Japan, 2017.
Poster: How Heat Spreads through Human Hair: Measuring the Thermal Diffusivity Across Hair Types
TRI Hair Measurement Science Symposium, Princeton, NJ, 2017.
Thermal Conduction in Graphite Flake-Epoxy Composites Using Infrared Microscopy: Local and Effective Thermal Characteristics
2017 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITHERM), Orlando, FL, 2017
DOI:10.1109/ITHERM.2017.8023960
Experimental Characterization of Thermal Conductance across the Separator-Shell Interface in Dry Cylindrical Lithium Ion Batteries
2017 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITHERM), Orlando, FL, 2017.
DOI:10.1109/ITHERM.2017.7992602
Investigation of Aluminum Foams and Graphite Fillers for Improving the Thermal Conductivity of Paraffin Wax-based Phase Change Materials
2017 Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITHERM), Orlando, FL, 2017.
DOI:10.1109/ITHERM.2017.7992499'
Granular Jamming and Thermal Modeling in Faceted Particle Packings
33rd ITCC International Thermal Conductivity Conference, Logan, UT, 2017.
Phonon Conduction in Silicon Nanobeam Labyrinths
Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting 2017, Phoenix, AZ, 2017.
Uncertainty Quantification in Modeling an Industrial High Pressure Die Casting Process
2017 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, San Diego, CA, 2017.

2016
Coupled Rheology and Thermal Transport in Granular Materials
ASME 2016 IMECE, Phoenix, AZ, 2016.
Thermal Transport in Mesoscale Heterogeneous Systems
Society of Engineering Science 53rd Annual Technical Meeting, College Park, MD, 2016.
Reinvestigating the Thickness-Dependent Thermal Conductivity of Silicon Thin Films using Electrothermal Metrology
ASME 2016 Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Washington D.C., 2016.
Nanoengineering Materials for Heat Dissipation
Nanotechnology Materials & Devices (NMD) Workshop, Dayton, OH, 2016.
Block Copolymers as Phase Change Materials for Mitigating Heat Spikes in Handheld Consumer Electronics
2016 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Nashville, TN, 2016.

2015
Advanced Thermal Metrology for Phase Change Materials
ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Houston, TX, 2015.
Integrating Design Methodology, Thermal Sciences, and Customer Needs to Address Challenges in the Hair Care Industry
ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Boston, MA, 2015.
High-Throughput Measurement Platform for Simultaneous Thermal and Thermoelectric Property Characterization
International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems (InterPACK), San Francisco, CA, 2015.
An Integrated Analysis of Thermal Conductivity Measurement in Silicon Thin Films
International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems (InterPACK), San Francisco, CA, 2015.
Passive Thermal Management Using Phase Change Materials: Experimental Evaluation of Thermal Resistances
International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems (InterPACK), San Francisco, CA, 2015.
Thermal Conduction in Silicon Thin Films [Poster]
MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2015.

2014
Thermal Transport in Electrically Conducting Polymer Microdots
MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, 2014.
Integrated Device for the Simultaneous Characterization of Thermal and Thermoelectric Properties
MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, 2014.
Nanoengineering Materials for Heat Dissipation
Electronics Packaging Symposium, Binghampton, NY, 2014.
Infrared Thermal Microscopy for Understanding Transport in Heterogeneous Materials
Indo-US Workshop on Nanomaterials for Energy , West Lafayette, IN, 2014.
Phononics: Nanoengineering Materials for Thermal Transport
ITHERM 2014, Orlando, FL, 2014.
Phonon Thermal Conduction in Periodically Porous Silicon Nanobeams
ITHERM 2014, Orlando, FL, 2014.
Simulation and Optimization of an In-plane Thermal Conductivity Measurement Structure for Silicon Nanostructures
International Thermal Conductivity Conference (ITCC) and the International Thermal Expansion Symposium (ITES), West Lafayette, IN, 2014.
Simulation and Analysis of an Integrated Device to Simultaneously Characterize Thermal and Thermoelectric Properties
International Thermal Conductivity Conference (ITCC) and the International Thermal Expansion Symposium (ITES), West Lafayette, IN, 2014.

2013
Heat localization: A Route to High Efficiency Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion [poster]
ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, San Diego, CA.
3D Packaging Materials Based on Graphite Nanoplatelet and Aluminum Nitride Nanocomposites
ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, San Diego, CA
doi:10.1115/IMECE2013-66419
Analysis of Thermal Conductivity and Viscosity of Graphite Suspensions
18th National Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, Chongqing, China, 2013. Accepted for extended publication in the Journal of Chemical Industry and Engineering (China).
Viscosity and Thermal Conductivity of Stable Graphite Suspension near Percolation
The 4th International Symposium on Micro and Nano Technology, Shanghai, China, 2013.
Impact of Phase Change on Thermal and Electrical Properties of Ionic Nanofluids
ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 2013.
Thermal Transport across Self-Assembled Monolayers to Water
ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 2013.

2012
Nanoscale Conformable Coatings for Enhanced Thermal Conduction of Carbon Nanotube Films
ITHERM 2012, San Diego, CA, 2012.
Solder-Bonded Carbon Nanotube Thermal Interface Materials
ITHERM 2012, San Diego, CA, 2012. (Outstanding Paper Award)
A Reliability Study with Infrared Imaging of Thermoelectric Modules under Thermal Cycling
ITHERM 2012, San Diego, CA, 2012
Effect of Thermal Cycling on Commercial Thermoelectric Modules
ITHERM 2012, San Diego, CA, 2012.
In-plane thermal conductivity measurement on nanoscale conductive materials with on‐substrate device configuration
ITHERM 2012, San Diego, CA, 2012.
Fast Transient and Steady State Thermal Imaging of CMOS Integrated Circuit Chips Considering Package Thermal Boundaries
ITHERM 2012, San Diego, CA, 2012.
Side-by-Side Comparison Between Infrared and Thermoreflectance Imaging Using a Thermal Test Chip With Embedded Diode Temperature Sensors
The 28th Annual IEEE Thermal Measurement, Modeling and Management Symposium (SEMI-THERM), San Jose, CA, 2012.

2011
Nanostructured Thermal Materials [poster]
7th US-Japan Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena - Science and Engineering, Shima, Japan, 2011
Thermal Conduction in Nanostructured Materials
Materials Research Society Symposium, Boston, MA, 2011. (Graduate Student Silver Award)
Heat Conduction and Photoluminescence in Silicon Nitride Films
Materials Research Society Symposium, Boston, MA, 2011.
Thermal Conduction in Nanobeam Photonic Crystal Cavities
Materials Research Society Symposium, Boston, MA, 2011.
Multi-functional Carbon Nanotube Films and Composites
Nanotechnology for Defense Symposium, Seattle, WA, 2011
Non-Linear Thermal Conductivity Enhancement in Nanocomposites with Aligned-CNT Implementation
18th International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM18), Jeju Island, Korea, 2011

2010
Filling in the Gap: Property Scaling Effects of Aligned-CNT-based Materials via Controlled Nanostructure Morphology
Materials Research Society Symposium, Boston, MA, 2010.

2009
Nanostructured Interfaces for Thermoelectrics
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Thermoelectrics, Freiburg, Germany, July 26-30, 2009.
Thermal Conductivity and Boundary Resistance of Aligned Carbon Nanotube Films and their Polymeric Composites
Materials Research Society Symposium, San Francisco, CA, 2009
Thermal Properties of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube-Nanocomposites Boundary Resistance and Inter-Carbon Nanotube Contact: Experiments and Modeling
APS March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, 2009.

2008
Temperature-Dependent Permeability of Microporous Membranes for Vapor Venting Heat Exchangers
IMECE 2008, Boston, MA, 2008
Hydrodynamic and Thermal Performance of a Vapor-Venting, Micromachined Copper Heat Exchanger
Sixth International ASME Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels, Darmstadt, Germany, 2008.
Micromachined step-tapered high frequency waveguide inserts and antennas
IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference, 2008, pp. 22-23

2007 and Earlier
Microfabricated THz-regime Waveguides
IEEE 34th International Conference on Plasma Science, 2007, pp. 648-648.
Material Considerations for the Development of THz Regime Waveguides
Materials Research Society Symposium, San Francsico, CA, 2007.
Microfabrication of Terahertz Regime Folded Waveguide Traveling Wave Tubes
International Conference on Plasma Science, Traverse City, MI, 2006
Generation of Terahertz Regime Radiation by Microfabricated Folded Waveguide Traveling Wave Tubes
IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference 2006, pp. 421-422, 2006.
Solid Phase Crystallization of Hot-Wire CVD Amorphous Silicon Films
Materials Research Society Symposium, San Francisco, CA, 2005
Athermal, Photonic Effects on Boron Diffusion and Activation in Silicon During Microwave Rapid Thermal Annealing
Fourth World Congress on Microwave and RF Applications, Austin, TX, 2004
Microwave-induced mass transport effects in nanoporous aluminum oxide membranes
Fourth World Congress on Microwave and RF Applications, Austin, TX, 2004