SHEN LAB
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Sheng Shen is a Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He also holds courtesy appointments in both the Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Materials Science and Engineering Departments at CMU. He received his PhD degree from the Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT, and BS and MS degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China. Prior to joining CMU in 2011, he conducted his postdoctoral research at UC-Berkeley. Professor Shen is a recipient of NSF CAREER Award, DARPA Director's Fellowship, DARPA Young Faculty Award, and Elsevier/JQSRT Raymond Viskanta Award for Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. He also received the CMU Dean's Early Career Fellowship, the Philomathia Foundation Research Fellowship in Alternative Energy Research from UC-Berkeley, a Hewlett-Packard Best Paper Award from ASME Heat Transfer Division, and a Best Paper Award in Julius Springer Forum on Applied Physics.
GROUP MEMBERS



Rui Cheng
Postdoctoral SCHOLAR
Research interest:
Thermophotovoltaics, Polymer fibers, Electrochemical cells
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Hakan Salihoglu
Postdoctoral SCHOLAR
Research interest:
Thermal radiation, Nanoscale heat transfer, Energy transport
Email:
Hyeong Seok Yun
Postdoctoral SCHOLAR
Research interest:
Nano-fabrication, Nano-photonics, and terahertz spectroscopy (THz-TDS).
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Xiao Luo
PhD CANDIDATE
Research interest:
Functional material fabrication and characterization, Thermal measurement
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Yusuf Mert Senturk
PhD CANDIDATE
Research interest:
Manufacturing, Polymer fibers, Electrochemical drilling
Email:
Lin Jing
PhD CANDIDATE
Research interest:
Thermal interface materials, Near-field thermal radiation
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Hyeonggyun Kim
PhD CANDIDATE
Research interest:
Fabrication of nanophotonic devices
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Zhuo Li
PhD CANDIDATE
Research interest:
Near-field thermal radiation, Phontonics, First principle simulation
Email:
Xiu Liu
PhD CANDIDATE
Research interest:
Direct thermal radiation measurement,
Infrared Detection, Energy Harvesting
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Zexiao Wang
PhD STUDENT
Research interest:
Nanoscale heat transfer, Manufacturing
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Tianyi Huang
PhD STUDENT
Research interest:
2D material, High frequency circuit, Digital circuit
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Hannah Zhai
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT
Research interest:
Mechanical Engineering
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ALUMNI
Bowen Yu (PhD, 2021)
Shen Du (Visiting PhD student, 2020)
Phil Smith (PhD, 2020)
Jiayu Li (PhD, 2020)
Wei Gong (PhD, 2019)
Ramesh Shrestha (PhD, 2018)
Baoan Liu (PhD, 2016)
Jiawei Shi (PhD, 2015)
Pengfei Li (PhD, 2015)
Devarsh Vispute (MS, 2020)
Yuxuan Luan (MS, 2019)
Siddharth Padmanabha (MS, 2018)
Li-Yang Chang (MS, 2017)
Jeffrey Sze (MS, 2015)
Feifei Lu (MS, 2014)
Chenji Ji (MS, 2013)
Yutian Cai (BS, 2020)
Qian Yang (BS, 2019)
James Zhang (BS, 2019)
Yunheng Zhang (BS, 2018)
Kemuel Noriega (BS, 2016)
Yingqiu Lee (BS, 2016)
Guochen Shen (BS, 2014)
Li Yen Ng (BS, 2014)
Kaiyang Liew (BS, 2013)