Prof. Yi Zheng is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and the Director of Nano Energy Laboratory at Northeastern University in Boston, MA, United States. Prior to joining Northeastern, Prof. Zheng was an assistant professor from 2014 to 2019 and promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2019 at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI, United States. His research interests include theoretical, computational and experimental investigations on enhanced energy transport phenomena, thermal/optical/electromagnetic sensing, physical properties of nanoengineered metamaterials, and their applications in energy conversion, storage, and harvesting systems, thermophotovoltaics, wavelength selective thermal emitters/absorbers, near-field thermal diodes and transistors, and photon-based radiative cooling technique.
Prof. Zheng serves as an editorial board member for Scientific Reports and associate editor for the Journal of Photonics for Energy, and reviewer for peer-reviewed journals, such as Nature Communications, Nano Energy, Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters, Scientific Reports, Nano Letters, and serves as topic/session chair at international conferences, such as ASME IMECE Conference and ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference.
Education:
Ph.D. (2015), Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY
M.S. (2011), Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY
B.S. (2009), Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Teaching Interests:
Classical and Small-Scale Heat Transfer
Thermodynamics
Fluid mechanics
Solar Thermal Engineering
Micro and Nanotechnology
