Sheng Shen - Carnegie Mellon University

EDUCATION
University of California at Berkeley
Sheng Shen
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Tel.: 412-268-3393, Email: sshen1@cmu.edu
2010 - 2011 Postdoc., Mechanical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Xiang Zhang)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2005 - 2010 Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Gang Chen)
Minor in Electrical Engineering
Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China
2000 - 2003 M. S. in Engineering Thermophysics
1996 - 2000 B. S. in Power Engineering (with highest honors)
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2011 - present Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, CMU
2010 - 2011 Philomathia Fellow, UC-Berkeley
2005 - 2010 Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
2012 Keynote Speaker, The Annual Techno-management Festival- Techniche 2012,
Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati, India
2010 JALA Ten 2010. Top ten breakthroughs listed by Journal of Association for
Laboratory Automation
2010 The Philomathia Foundation Research Fellowship in Alternative Energy
Research, UC-Berkeley
2010 Outstanding Graduate Student, Wunsch Foundation Silent Hoist and Crane
Award, Mechanical Engineering, MIT
2008 Hewlett-Packard Best Paper Award (First Place), ASME Heat Transfer Division
2008 Best Paper Award, Julius Springer Forum on Applied Physics
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Session Chair: 7th US-Japan Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena, ASME 3rd
Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer International Conference
Proposal Reviewer: Army Research Office, National Science Foundation
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Memberships: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Materials Research Society
Journal Articles Reviewer: ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Chemical Engineering Communications,
Carbon, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Journal of Applied Physics D, Journal of
Micromechanics and Microengineering, Nanotechnology, Optical Express, Physics of Fluids,
Proceedings of the Royal Society A, Surface Science
Conference Proceedings Reviewer: ASME/JSME 2011 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference,
ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, ASME 2012 Summer
Heat Transfer Conference
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
2012 Keynote Lecture, The Annual Techno-management Festival- Techniche 2012, Indian
Institute of Technology-Guwahati, India
2012 Seminar, Thermal Science & Materials Branch, Materials & Manufacturing Technology
Directorate, The Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), Ohio
2011 Seminar, 7th US-Japan Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena, Shima, Japan
2010 Seminar, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at
Urbana–Champaign, Illinois
2010 Seminar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pennsylvania
2009 Workshop on Physics of High Heat Flux Devices and their Applications, organized by
Defense Science Research Council(DSRC), Washington DC
PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapter
1. S. Shen, Experimental studies of radiative heat transfer between bodies at small separations,
Annual Review of Heat Transfer, 2012.
2. S. Shen and G. Chen, Molecular gas lubrication, Encyclopedia of Tribology, Springer, New
York, 2011.
Refereed Journal Articles
1. S. Shen, A. Henry, J. Tong, R. T. Zheng and G. Chen, Polyethylene nanofibers with very high
thermal conductivities, Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 5, 251-255, 2010.
See also "Ultrathin fibres heat up", Nature, Vol. 464, 328, 2010.
2. S. Shen, R. G. Yang and G. Chen, Nonlocal formulation of the Reynolds equation for rarefied
gas flow with steep pressure variation, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 107, 104316, 2010.
3. S. Shen, A. Narayanaswamy, and G. Chen, Surface phonon polariton mediated energy
transfer between nanoscale gaps, Nano Letters, Vol. 8, 2909-2913, 2009.
See also " Close heat", Nature, Vol. 460, 934, 2009.
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4. A. Narayanaswamy, S. Shen, L. Hu, X. Chen, and G. Chen, Breakdown of the Planck blackbody
radiation law at nanoscale gaps, Applied Physics A, Vol. 96, 357-362, 2009.
5. S. Shen, A. Narayanaswamy, S. Goh and G. Chen, Thermal conductance of bimaterial
microcantilevers, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 92, 063509, 2008.
Selected for Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, 2008.
6. S. Shen and G. Chen, A kinetic theory analysis on the heat transfer in hard drive air bearing,
Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 103, 054304, 2008.
7. A. Narayanawamy, S. Shen, and G. Chen, Near-field radiative transfer between a sphere and
a substrate, Physical Review B, Vol. 78, 115303 (1-4), 2008.
8. S. Shen, G. Chen, R. M. Crone, and M. Anaya-Dufresne, A Kinetic-theory based 1st order slip
boundary condition for gas flow, Physics of Fluids, Vol. 19, 085101, 2007.
9. S. Shen, J. L. Xu, J. J. Zhou and Y. Chen,Flow and heat transfer in microchannels with rough
wall surface, Energy Conversion and Management, Vol. 47, 1311-1325, 2006.
10. J. L. Xu, S. Shen, Y. H. Gan, Y. X. Li, W. Zhang and Q. C. Su, Transient flow pattern based
microscale boiling heat transfer mechanisms, Journal of Micromechanics and
Microengineering, Vol. 15, 1344-1361, 2005.
11. S. Shen, W. Liu and W. Q. Tao, Analysis of field synergy on the natural convective heat
transfer in porous media, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 30,
1081-1090, 2003.
12. W. Liu, S. Shen, and S. B. Riffat, Heat transfer and phase change of liquid in an inclined
enclosure packed with unsaturated porous media, International Journal of Heat and Mass
Transfer, Vol. 45, 5209-5219, 2002.
Conference Proceedings/Presentations
1. S. Shen, J. Tong, R. T. Zheng and G. Chen, Ultra-high thermal conductivity polyethylene
nanofibers, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Denver,
CO, 2011
2. S. Shen, A. Narayanaswamy, and G. Chen, Near-field radiative heat transfer between a
sphere and substrates of different materials, Energy Nanotechnology International
Conference, Jacksonville, FL, 2008.
3. S. Shen, A. Narayanaswamy, S. Goh and G. Chen, Thermal conductance of bi-material
microcantilevers, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition,
Boston, MA, 2008.
4. A. Narayanaswamy, S. Shen, and G. Chen, Measurement of near-field radiative heat
transfer and implications for Casimir force measurements, APS March Meeting, New
Orleans, LA, 2008.
5. S. Shen, G. Chen, R. M. Crone, and M. AnayaDufresne, A new slip model for gas lubrication,
ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Chicago, IL, 2006.
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Media or News Reports
1. Nanoscale thermal radiation breaking down Planck’s law
“Breaking the law, at the naoscale” MIT News (July 2009)
“Close heat” Nature Magazine (Aug 2009)
“Breaking the law at the naoscale” MIT Technology Review (Dec 2009)
“Breakdown In Planck's Law: Bringing Objects Close Together Can Boost Radiation Heat Transfer”
ScienceDaily (July 2009)
“Breaking the Planck’s law, at the naoscale” PhysOrg (July 2009)
“Exposing the flaw in Planck’s law” PhysicsWorld (Aug 2009)
“Heat transfer breaks limits of Planck’s Law” R&D Magazine (July 2009)
“MIT Experts Demonstrate Planck's Law Breakdown” Softpedia (July 2009)
“Exposing the flaw in Planck’s law” Nanotechweb (July 2009)
“Heat Transfer: Planck's Law Demon Gets Pushed Farther Out (A Lot)” Science 2.0 (July 2009)
“New MIT study shows breakdown in Planck’s law” e Science News (July 2009)
“New MIT study shows breakdown in Planck’s law” LifeSciencesWorld (July 2009)
“Breaking the law, at the naoscale” Communications of the ACM News (July 2009)
“Breaking Planck's Law at the Nanoscale” The A to Z Nanotechnology News (July 2009)
2. Highly thermal conductive polymers
“Insulators made into conductors” MIT News (Mar 2010)
“Ultrathin fibres heat up” Nature Magazine (Mar 2010)
“Insulators Made Into Conductors: Polymers Coaxed to Line Up, Transformed Into Materials That
Could Dissipate Heat” ScienceDaily (Mar 2010)
“Insulators made into conductors” Institute of Nanotechnology News (Mar 2010)
“Insulators made into conductors” e-Science News (Mar 2010)
“Insulators made into conductors” UK Nanomagazine News (Mar 2010)
“Polyethylene nanofibers with remarkable thermal conductivity” The 2010 JALA Ten
Breakthroughs (Aug 2010)
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“MIT researchers show how to draw Polyethylene as nanofibers and get a very high thermal
conductivity” PlasticsTrends News (Mar 2010)
“MIT Scientists Transform Polyethylene Into a Heat-Conducting Material” InSciences News (Mar
2010)
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