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Group News:
09/2024:Student Award. Daniel received the 1st Place Award in the Hawkins Memorial Lecture Student Poster Session. Congrats, Daniel!
7/2024:Invited Talk. Prof. Ruan gave an invited talk at the 5th International Workshop on Nano-Micro Thermal Radiation (NanoRad 2024) held in Sapporo, Japan.
7/2024:Invited Panel Talk. Prof. Ruan gave an invited panel talk at the Heat Transfer for Sustainable Energy and Climate panel at the ASME Summer Heat Transfer COnference.
7/2024:Presentation Awards. Xiaojie and Andrea each received a Session Best Presentation Award at the ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference. Congrats!
6/2024:Invited Talk. Prof. Ruan gave an invited talk at the Nanoscale and Microscale Heat Transfer VIII Conference held at Girona, Spain.
5/2024:Student Award. Andrea has received the Most Outstanding Interdisciplinary Project Award (MOIPA) from Purdue. Congrats, Andrea!
5/2024:Student Award. Ziqi Guo received one of the two Systems Fellowships from Purdue University. Congrats, Ziqi!
5/2024:Faculty Award. Prof. Ruan received the Discovery in Mechanical Engineering Award from the School of Mechanical Engineering.
4/2024:Faculty Award. Prof. Ruan received the 2024 ASME McDonald Mentoring Award, for "for leadership in sustainable energy and nanoscale transport research and for serving as a role model for diverse, inclusive, and effective mentoring".
4/2024:PhD Dissertation Defense. Zherui defended his PhD dissertation. He will join Stanford University as a postdoctoral fellow. Congrats, Dr. Han!
4/2024:Student Awards. Zherui received the College of Engineering Graduate Student Outstanding Research Award. Ziqi Fang received the Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching. Congrats, Zherui and Ziqi!
2/2024: Student Award. Emily received the TRAvel for CollaborativE Research (TRACER) Grant. Congrats, Emily!
2/2024: New Student and Award. Andrew Witty, who is currently a senior in Purdue ME and a student-athelet in the Purdue swimming team, will join our group as a graduate student in summer 2024. He received the Cordier Fellowship. Congrats and welcome, Andrew!
1/2024: Alumni Award. Former PhD student Dr. Tianli Feng, now professor at the University of Utah, received the NSF CAREER Award. Congrats, Tianli!
12/2023: Student Award. Daniel received the Lambert Teaching Fellowship. Congrats!
12/2023: Student Featured. Andrea was featured in the November/December issue of the Diversity in Action Magazine! See the digital magazine here.
11/2023: News coverage. Zherui's research story "Is graphene the best heat conductor ever? Purdue researchers investigates with four-phonon scattering" was covered by multiple news media! Read more at Purdue, AZoNano, ScienceDaily, etc.
11/2023: Student Award. Ioanna received the Stevenson Scholarship from the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue. Congrats!
11/2023: Student Award. We are at the 2023 ASME IMECE conference. Andrea received a Second Place Best Poster Award at the Society-Wide Micro and Nanotechnology Forum, and Krutarth received Heat Transfer Division K-9 Session Presentation Award. Congrats!
10/2023: Best Inventions of 2023! Our invention of the ultrawhite radiative cooling paint, including the thin and lightweight hBN-acrylic paint, was named one of the Best Inventions of 2023 by Time Magazine! Read more here.
08/2023: Student Featured. Emily and Abdulrahman were featured in the NBC News on August 10, 2023! Watch the news here.
   
08/2023: Student Award. Ioanna received the Lambert Teaching Fellowship. Congrats!
07/2023: Student Award. Ziqi Guo received a Heat Transfer Division K-9 Session Presentation Award at the 2023 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference. Congrats!
07/2023: New York Times front page. Our ultrawhite radiative cooling paint story was featured on the front page of New York Times! Read more here.
06/2023: Brillouin Medal. Prof. Ruan, together with Prof. Tianli Feng from the University of Utah, have received the 2023 Brillouin Medal from the Interntional Phononics Society, for "their formulation of four-phonon scattering theory and associated computational studies". The medal is awarded biennially (every two years) to a specific seminal contribution in the field of phononics. We are honored and humbled to receive this amazing recognition named after Leon Brillouin, a pioneer in quantum mechanics, solid state physics, and phononics. Read more here.
03/2023: SXSW Innovation Award in Sustainability. Our thin and lightweight radiative cooling paint technology won the SXSW 2023 Innovation Award for Sustainability! Read more here.
12/2022: Student Award. Zherui received the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship. Congrats, Zherui!
10/2022: News Media Coverage. Our invention of thin and lightweight radiative cooling paint has been covered by numrous news reports globally, including US NEWS & World Report, Independent, Smithsonian, Fast Company, Popular Mechanics, C&EN, Materials Today, GIZMODO, and many more!
10/2022: Student Award. Zherui received the Best Poster Award at the Hawkins student poster session. Congrats, Zherui!
08/2022: Three former PhD students joined faculty. Former PhD student Dr. Jingjing Shi has joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida as an assistant professor; Dr. Xiangyu Li has joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Tennessee as an assistant professor, and Dr. Zuyuan Wang joined the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China as a professor. Congratulations! In total, 9 PhD graduates and 5 postdoctoral alumni of our group have joined faculty.
07/2022: Student Awards. Undergraduate student Luis Romaguera (co-advised with Prof. Justin Weibel) has won the 3rd Place in SROP Poster Presentaion Award, and Navdeep Vansal has won the Outstnading First Time Researcher Award in the SURF program. Their graduate student mentors Orlando Gonzalez and Emily Barber have done a great job in mentorship. Congratulations to all!
06/2022: PhD Dissertation Defense. Joe Peoples has defended his PhD dissertation and is joining Intel. Congratulations!
05/2022: Poster Award Nomination. Andrea Felicelli's poster has been nominated for the Best Poster Award at the 2022 MRS Spring Meeting. Congrats, Andrea!
04/2022: Faculty Award. Dr. Ruan has received the Purdue University College of Engineering Faculty Excellence in Research Award. Congrats!
03/2022: Faculty Award. Dr. Ruan has received the College of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award. Congrats!
03/2022: Student Award. Joe Peoples has received the College of Engineering Outstanding Service Scholarship. Congrats, Joe!
11/2021: Student Award. Zherui received a Best Poster in Symposium Award at the 2021 MRS Fall Meeting. Congrats, Zherui!
09/2021: Guinness World Record! Our ultrawhite radiative cooling paint has won a Guinness World Record of the "World's Whitest Paint"! Congrats to our entire team to make it happen!
08/2021: Student Award. Ioanna received an Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award from the SURF program. Congrats, Ioanna!
5/2021: Former PhD student received the prestigeous NSF CAREER Award. Professor Yan Wang at the University of Nevada at Reno, who obtained his PhD in our group, has received the prestigeous NSF CAREER Award. Heartest congratulations, Yan!
5/2021: Student Award. Joe received the Second Place Best Poster Award at the CTRC Meeting poster session.
04/2021: Global News Media Coverage. Our invention of ultra-white paints for below-ambient radiative cooling has received tremendous global attention and is the most publicized research story from Purdue in 2021! It won the Guinness World Record of the "Whitest Paint"and generated more than 4 billion reads globally via coverage by more than 2,000 news reports, including Purdue News,
BBC News, BBC News (TV), CNN, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, USA TODAY, Science Magazine,
New Scientist,
Fast Company, PBS News Hour, abc, NBC LX, CBS42, and many more in different countries and languages. It was even featured in Jimmy Fallon's "The Tonight Show", Stephen Colbert's "The Late Show", and the "Saturday Night Live". See the
compiled image below (not exhaustive on the news outlets). Read our
journal paper published in
Cell Reports Physical Science (a new sister journal to Cell) and ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. We are currently working with partners towards commercializing this exciting technology.
3/2021: Student Award. Prabudhya Chowdhury Received the Best Poster Award (tied for first place) at the Hawkins Lecture poster session.
3/2021: Student Award. Prabudhya Chowdhury Received the very competitive College of Engineering Outstanding Research Award. Congratulations! See the College announcement.
01/2021: Former PhD student accepts tenure track faculty position. Dr. Tianli Feng, who obtained PhD from our lab and is curently an associate staff scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will join the University of Utah as a tenure-track assistant professor. Congratualtions and good luck with the new journey, Tianli!
01/2021: Student Award. Prabudhya Chowdhury Received the Kohr Scholarship from the School of Mechanical Engineering. Congratulations!
12/2019: Letter from Purdue President Mitch Daniels. Purdue President Mitch Daniels sent us a letter indicating that our radiative cooling paint research was covered by more than 250 news media and ranked in the top ten in the year 2020 for Purdue research media hits.
10/2020: Global News Media Coverage of Our Radiative Cooling Paint Research. Excited to see that our invention of below-ambient radiative
cooling paint has received remarkable global attention!
Click on the links to read: BBC News, Purdue News, Science Magazine, New York Post, New Scientist, Fast Company, and many others. It also appeared in
major news media in many other countries and languages.
See the compiled image below (not exhaustive on the news
outlets). Read our journal paper published in Cell Reports Physical Science (a new sister journal to
Cell). We are currently working with partners towards commercializing this exciting technology.
08/2020: Student award. Andrea Felicelli received the Graduate Mentor Award for 2020 SURF. Her mentee is Fernando Barrios who completed an excellent SURF project. Congrats, Andrea and Fernando!
04/2020: Student award.
Joseph Peoples received the prestigious NASA Space
Technology Graduate Research Opportunity Fellowship. Congratulations,
Joe! See the award announcement here: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/News/2020/me-students-receive-nasa-research-fellowships?utm_source=cerkl&utm_medium=email.
04/2020: News release:
Our research received news coverage with a title "Four-phonon scattering in infrared and Raman demonstrated
for the first time",
https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/News/2020/fourphonon-scattering-affects-materials-infrared-and-raman-spectra.
03/2020: News release: Prabudhya's
research was covered by news with the title "Machine
learning discovers unexpected behavior in superlattices",
https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/News/2020/machine-learning-in-superlattices
01/2020: Student award.
Prabudhya Roychowdhury received the Bilsland Dissertation
Fellowship from Purdue.
Congratulations, Prabudhya!
12/2019: PRTEC conference.
Dr. Ruan, Prabudhya, and Joseph traveled to the
beautiful Maui Island in
Hawaii to attend the PRTEC 2019 conference. Dr. Ruan organized a
panel discussion, and Prabudhya and Joseph each gave two
talks that were well received. We also met our lab alumni
Professor Yan Wang and many other friends.
08/2019: Student award.
Zherui Han received the prestigious Ross Fellowship from
Purdue University. Congratulations, Zherui!
08/2019: Student award. Andrea Felicelli
received the prestigious National Science Foundation
Graduate Fellowship and Purdue Doctoral Fellowship.
Congratulations, Andrea!
08/2019: Welcome New
Students. Andrea Felicelli, Zherui Han, and Zixin Xiong have joined our group
as new graduate students. Welcome!
06/2019: Invited talk.
Dr. Ruan gave an invited talk at the Phononics Conference.
06/2019: M.S. thesis
defense. Jacob Faulker has successfully defended his MS
thesis and will join the Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory. Congratulations, Jacob!
04/2019: M.S. thesis
defense. Victoria Zhao has successfully defended her MS
thesis. Congratulations, Victoria!
12/2018: PhD dissertation
defense. Xiangyu successfully defended his PhD
dissertation. He will join Professor Evelyn Wang's lab at
MIT as a postdoctoral fellow. Congratulations, Xiangyu!
11/2018: Invited talk.
Dr. Ruan gave an invited talk at ASME IMECE.
10/2018: Student award.
Xiangyu received the third-place Best Poster Award at the
2018 CTRC Fall Meeting. Congratulations to Xiangyu!
09/2018: M.S. thesis
defense. Dedeepya successfully defended her M.S. thesis.
Congratulations!
08/2018: Student award.
Jacob Faulkner joined our
group as an MS student and receives the Lozar Fellowship
from the School of Mechanical Engineering.
Congratulations, Jacob!
08/2018: Student award.
Luis Delgado joined our
group as a Ph.D. student and receives the Carver Fellowship
from Purdue.
Congratulations, Luis!
08/2018: Welcome New
Students. Luis Delgado, Jacob Faulkner, and Peiyan Yao have joined our group. Welcome!
07/2018: PhD dissertation
defense. Jingjing and Zexi successfully defended their PhD
dissertations. Jingjing will join Professor Samuel Graham's
lab as a postdoctoral fellow, and Zexi will join the Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow. Congratulations,
Jingjing and Zexi!
12/2017: News release:
Our work of four-phonon scattering
has been covered by Purdue News Services and numerous other
scientific media with the title: "Researchers solve
‘four-phonon’ thermal-conductivity obstacle key to tech
applications”:
10/2017: Student award.
Xiangyu received the third-place Best Poster Award at the
2017 CTRC Fall Meeting. Congratulations to Xiangyu!
10/2017: Invited Seminar.
Dr. Ruan gave an invited seminar at
the University of California at Santa Barbara.
08/2017: Student award.
Joseph Peoples joined our
group as a Ph.D. student and receives the Winkelman Fellowship
from the School of Mechanical Engineering.
Congratulations, Joe!
08/2017: Welcome New
Students. Joseph Peoples and Zhixuan (Victoria) Zhao have joined our group. Welcome!
07/2017: PhD dissertation
defense. Tianli successfully defended his PhD
dissertation and will join Oak Ridge National
Laboratory/Vanderbilt University as a postdoc fellow. Congratulations,
Tianli!
07/2017: Invited Talk.
Dr. Ruan
give an invited talk at the 9th US-Japan Joint Seminar on
Nanoscale Transport Phenomena held in Tokyo, Japan.
04/2017: Faculty Award.
Dr. Ruan
was named a University Faculty Scholar of Purdue University.
02/2017: Faculty Award.
Dr. Ruan received the
B.F.S. Schaefer Award from School of Mechanical Engineering.
02/2017: PhD dissertation
defense. Zuyuan successfully defended his PhD
dissertation. Congratulations, Zuyuan!
11/2016:
Invited Seminar. Dr. Ruan gave an invited seminar at
the University of Texas at Austin.
11/2016:
Tutorial Lectures. Dr. Ruan delivered a tutorial lecture
and two panel talks at 2016 ASME IMECE Conference.
10/2016:
Faculty Award. Dr. Ruan received the Purdue Seed for
Success Award.
10/2016:
Invited Seminar. Dr. Ruan gave an invited seminar at
the California Institute of Technology.
08/2016: Student award.
Prabudhya Roychowdhury joined our
group as a Ph.D. student. Prabudhya receives the Ross Fellowship
from the School of Mechanical Engineering.
Congratulations, Prabudhya!
08/2016: Welcome New
Students. Prabudhya Roychowdhury and Dedeepya Valluripally have joined our group. Welcome!
05/2016-06/2016:
Invited Seminars. Dr. Ruan visited China and gave
invited seminars at Xi'an Jiaotong University, Tsinghua University,
North China University of Electric Power, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Harbin Institute of Technology, and Huazhong
University of Science and Technology.
05/2016: PhD dissertation
defense.
Kelly successfully defended her PhD dissertation.
Congratulations, Kelly!
05/2016: PhD dissertation
defense.
Yan successfully defended his PhD dissertation and will join
the University of Nevada at Reno as a tenure-track assistant professor.
Congratulations to the soon-to-be Professor Wang!
05/2016: Student Award.
Zuyuan received the Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Congratulations, Zuyuan!
04/2016: Faculty Award.
Professor Ruan received the School of Mechanical Engineering
Outstanding Engineering Graduate Student Mentor Award.
02/2016: Faculty Award.
Professor Ruan received the College of Engineering Faculty
Early Career Research Award.
02/2016: Student Award.
Tianli received the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship.
Congratulations, Tianli!
11/2015: ASME Best Paper
Award. Yaguo Wang and Bo Qiu, former PhD students, and
Professors Xianfan Xu and Xiulin Ruan win ASME Best Paper
Award. See news press
here.
08/2015: DARPA award.
Professor Ruan won a DARPA grant as the PI. This is
our first DARPA award!
07/2015: Administrative
Appointment of Dr. Ruan. Professor Ruan took the
position of Associate Director for Graduate Recruitment and
Admissions in ME. He is passionate about attracting the best
students to our graduate program.
05/2015: Student Award.
Zuyuan Wang received the Lambert Teaching Fellowship.
Congratulations, Zuyuan!
04/2015: M.S. thesis
defense. Chris Robinson has successfully defended his MS
thesis. Congratulations, Chris!
04/2015: Invited Talk.
Dr. Ruan gave an invited talk at the 2015 MRS Spring
Meeting.
03/2015: Student Award.
Yan Wang received the College of Engineering Outstanding
Graduate Student Research Award. Congratulations, Yan!
03/2015: M.S. thesis
defense. Eshaan Mathew has successfully defended his MS
thesis. Congratulations, Eshaan!
10/2014:
Invited
Seminars. Dr. Ruan was invited to
visit Taiwan and give seminars at National Cheng Kung
University, National Taiwan University, and National Tsing
Hua University.
08/2014: Faculty Award.
Dr. Ruan received the Purdue University Bravo Award. [link]
06/2014:
Student Award. Kelly Rickey received the
Ingersoll-Rand Fellowship from the School of Mechanical
Engineering. Congratulations, Kelly!
06/2014:
Invited Seminars. Dr. Ruan visited China and gave
invited seminars at Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, Wuhan University, and the Huazhong University of
Science and Technology.
06/2014:
Short Course. Dr. Ruan gave a 2-hour lecture, "First
Principles-Based Predictions of Optical and Infrared
Properties”, as part of a 1.5-day short course at the
2nd International Workshop on Nano-Micro
Thermal Radiation, Shanghai,
China.
04/2014: Student Award.
Christopher Robinson received the
Lozar
Fellowship from School of Mechanical Engineering.
Congratulations, Chris!
03/2014: Invited Seminar:
Dr.
Ruan was invited to visit the RWTH Aachen University in
Germany, and he gave a seminar entitled “Engineering Thermal
Transport at the Nanoscale: A Multiscale Multiphysics
Simulation Approach".
02/2014: Student Award.
Yan Wang received the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship for his
outstanding performance during PhD. This is the third
such award in our group (Hua and Bo were previous recipients). Congratulations,
Yan!
01/2014: News release:
Our work of thermal rectification in graphene nanoribbons
has been covered by Purdue News Services and numerous other
scientific media with the title: “Research could bring new
devices that control heat flow”. This work was done by Yan,
Ajit, Bo, and with collaborators Jiuning Hu and Professor
Yong Chen.
• Purdue News Services:
http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2014/Q1/research-could-bring-new-devices-that-control-heat-flow.html•
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www.hpcwire.com:
http://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/research-bring-new-devices-control-heat-flow/
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Phys.org:
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-devices.html
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Sciencedaily.com:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140128113326.htm?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=inorganicnews
11/2013: MS thesis defense:
Tianli Feng has defended his MS thesis, and he will continue
PhD in our group. Congratulations, Tianli!
09/2013: PhD graduate
joined industry: Liangliang Chen defended his PhD
dissertation and joined Western Digital. Congratulations,
Liangliang!
06/2013: PhD graduate
accepted faculty position. Yalin Dong defended his PhD
dissertation and accepted a tenure-track faculty position at
the University of Akron. Congratulations to soon-to-be
Professor Dong!
05/2013: Student Award.
Kelly Rickey received the Cordier Fellowship from the School
of Mechanical Engineering. Congratulations, Kelly!
04/2013: Faculty Promotion
and Tenure.
Dr. Ruan was promoted to associate professor with tenure.
11/2012: Faculty Award.
Dr. Ruan received the Seed for Success Award from Purdue
University.
11/2012: Invited Talk.
Dr. Ruan gave an invited talk at the 2012 ASME IMECE
conference.
09/2012: Undergraduate
Research Recognition.
Undergraduate student Chris Robinson was selected to attend
the SRC TECHON Conference.
Congratulations, Chris!
08/2012: Student Awards.
New students Xiangyu Li and Zexi Lu have received the Ross
Fellowship from the School of Mechanical Engineering.
Congratulations, Xiangyu and Zexi!
08/2012: Welcome New
Students. Tianli Feng, Xiangyu Li, Zexi Lu, Jingjing
Shi, and Zuyuan Wang have joined our group. Welcome!
08/2012: Best Student Presentation
Award. Kelly Rickey received the Best Student
Presentation Award (1st Place) at the Nanostructured Thin
Films Conference, a conference within the 2012 SPIE Optics
and Photonics Conference. Congratulations, Kelly!
08/2012: Appointment of
Editorial Board Member: Dr. Ruan has been appointed as
an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports, a
journal published by the Nature Publishing Group (publisher
of Nature).
07/2012: PhD dissertation
defense.
Bo successfully defended his PhD dissertation. He will join
MIT as a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Gang Chen. He turned down
multiple industry positions. Congratulations, Bo!
04/2012: Best Poster Award.
Bo won a Best Poster Award at the US-India Symposium of
Nanomaterials for Energy, held at Purdue.
03/2012: Best Paper Award
Nomination.
Our paper, "Thermal Radiative Properties of Thin Vertical
Graphitic Arrays", was nominated for the Best Paper Award at
the 2012 ASME Microscale and Nanoscale Heat and Mass
Transfer (MNHMT) Conference.
The authors are Subrahmanya (Bhagirath) Duvvuri, Anurag
Kumar, Hua Bao, Haoxiang Huang, Timothy Fisher, and Xiulin
Ruan.
02/2012: MS thesis
defense.
Bhagirath successfully defended his MS thesis and joined
Cummins.
02/2012: Faculty Award.
Dr. Ruan received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award.
02/2012: Student Award.
Bo Qiu received the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship for his
outstanding performance during PhD. It is probably the most
competitive and prestigious award Purdue
gives to PhD candidates, and only 2-3 awards are given to ME
PhD candidates every year. This is the second consecutive
award in our group (last year Hua) which is truly
exceptional. Congratulations, Bo!
02/2012: PhD dissertation
defense.
Hua successfully defended his PhD dissertation and will join
the University of Michigan and Shanghai Jiaotong University
Joint Institute as a tenure-track assistant professor.
Congratulations to the soon-to-be Professor Bao!
12/2011: Invited Seminar.
Dr. Ruan gave a seminar at the University of
Louisville.
10/2011: Our first PhD
graduate accepted
a faculty position.
Hua Bao accepted a tenure-track faculty position at the University of
Michigan-Shanghai Jiaotong University Joint Institute.
Congratulations to the soon-to-be Professor Bao!
06/2011: MS thesis Defense.
Aaron Sisto has successfully defended his M.S. thesis.
Congratulations, Aaron!
06/2011: Invited Seminar.
Dr. Ruan gave a seminar at the Air Force Research Laboratory
located in the Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton,
Ohio.
04/2011: Invited Talk.
Bo (on behalf of Dr. Ruan) gave an invited talk at the Materials Research
Society (MRS) Spring Meeting in San Francisco.
02/2011: Student Award.
Hua received the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship for
his outstanding performance during PhD work. It is probably
the most competitive and prestigious award Purdue
gives to PhD candidates, and only 2-3 awards are given to ME
PhD candidates each year. Congratulations, Hua!
02/2011: Student Award.
Kelly Rickey joined our group as a direct PhD student. Kelly
receives the Winkelman Fellowship (a two-year fellowship)
from the School of Mechanical Engineering. Congratulations
and welcome, Kelly!
02/2011: Faculty Award.
Dr. Ruan was selected to be an Air Force Summer Faculty
Fellow.
02/2011: Invited Seminar.
Dr. Ruan gave an invited seminar at the Department of
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of
Pennsylvania.
10/2010: Invited Seminar.
Dr. Ruan gave an invited
seminar at the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and
Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
08/2010: Student Award.
Bao Hua received the Lambert Teaching Fellowship from
the School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue.
Congratulations, Hua!
08/2010: Student Award.
Yan Wang joined our group as a direct PhD student. Yan
receives the Andrews Fellowship (a two-year fellowship) from
the School of Mechanical Engineering. Congratulations and
welcome, Yan!
08/2010: Invited Talk.
Dr. Ruan gave an invited presentation at the International Heat
Transfer Conference held at Washington DC.
08/2010: Invited Talk.
Dr. Ruan gave an invited talk at the SPIE Optics and
Photonics Conference held at San Diego.
04/2010: Student Award.
Aaron Sisto received the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Graduate Fellowship (a three-year fellowship).
Congratulations, Aaron!
03/2010: Student Award.
Aaron Sisto received the Department of Energy (DOE)
Computational Science Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations, Aaron!
02/2010: Faculty Award.
Dr. Ruan was selected to be an Air Force Summer Faculty
Fellow.
01/2010: Invited Seminar.
Dr. Ruan gave an invited seminar at the Department of
Physics, Purdue University.
01/2010: Student Award.
Aaron Sisto joined our
group as an M.S. student. Aaron receives
the Chappelle Fellowship from Purdue
and Winkelman Fellowship from School of Mechanical
Engineering. Congratulations and welcome, Aaron!
09/2009: Student Award. Hua
received the the Warren
and Judy Stevenson Graduate Scholarship from the School of
Mechanical Engineering. Congratulations, Hua!
08/2009: Invited Seminar.
Dr. Ruan gave an invited seminar at the School of Mechanical
Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology.
08/2009: Invited Talk.
Dr. Ruan gave an invited talk at the SPIE Optics and
Photonics Conference held at San Diego.
06/2009: Invited Seminar.
Dr. Ruan gave an invited seminar at the School of Aerospace
Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
08/2008: Best Presentation
Award. Bo received the
Best Student Presentation Award at the 2008 ASME Energy
Nanotechnology International Conference. His presentation
was entitled "Multiscale Simulations of the Thermoelectric
Properties of PbTe". Congratulations, Bo!
06/2008: Student award. Hua Bao received the
Purdue Computing Research Institute (CRI) Fellowship.
Congratulations, Hua!
06/2008: Student award. Bo Qiu joined our
group as a Ph.D. student. Bo receives the Ross Fellowship
(a one-year fellowship) from the School of Mechanical Engineering.
Congratulations and welcome, Bo!
1/2007: Dr. Ruan (not official yet, PhD degree to be awarded in
April 2007) arrived at Purdue and started the "Nanoscale
Energy Transport and Conversion Laboratory".
5/2006: Xiulin Ruan accepted a tenure-track assistant
professor position at Purdue University. He
will assume his new position in January 2007. He is so
excited to start his independent academic career.
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