Hongwei Sun
Associate Prof. & Associate Chair
University of Massachusetts Lowell
USA
Biography
Prof. Hongwei Sun graduated with a Ph. D. degree from Institute of Engineering Thermophysics at Chinese Academy of Science in 1998. Prior to joining UML in 2005, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Rhode Island (URI) and later a research scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is an associate professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and serves as the director of Multiscale Thermal Science Lab (MTSL) at UML. He has published more than 30 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as board members of several committees such as NSF PIER Advisory Board and ASME Micro/Nanofluidic symposium committee.
Research Interest
Prof. Sun works in the areas of microfluidics/BioMEMS, Thermal Energy Storage Materials, Acoustic Sensors, Interfacial Thermal Transport, Nanoimprinting, MEMS Design and Fabrication, and Microchannel Cooling. His current research focuses on fundamental understanding of thermal transport phenomena at the interfaces between phases and from macro to nanoscales and its applications in thermal management, energy storage and material processing.