Ph.D. Alumni
Quang Pham
qpham1@uci.edu
Quang Pham received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2015. His current research focuses on nanostructure and microporous media for two-phase heat transfer. He is supported by the Departmental Fellowship and Federal Work Study Fellowship. He is working at Northrop Grumman (2020).
Jonggyu Lee
jonggyul@uci.edu
Jonggyu Lee received his B.S. and M.S. both in Environmental Material Science from Seoul National University. His research interests lie in the fabrication methods of innovative nanostructures for thermal management. He was supported by the Departmental Fellowship. He received his Ph.D in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC Irvine in 2021. He is working for Samsung Electronics since Fall of 2021.
Kimia Montazeri
kmontaze@uci.edu
Kimia Montazeri received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. in Renewable Energies from the University of Tehran, Iran. Her research is focused on numerical methods and computational algorithms for multiphase flow analysis within nanoscale porous structures. She is supported by the Departmental Fellowship. She is working for Tesla (2021)
Lin Cheng-Hui
linc28@uci.edu
Cheng-Hui Lin received his B.S.in Mechanical Engineering from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan in 2011, and M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taiwan in 2013. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in UC Irvine. His research focuses the development of new porous structures and their hydraulic resistance characterization. He is supported by the National Chung Shan Institute of Science & Technology Fellowship
Anhthu (Annie) Dinh
anhthd1@uci.edu
Anhthu (Annie) Dinh received her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from California State University, Long Beach in 2021. She is currently pursuing her M.S. in Biomedical Engineering at UC Irvine. Her current research interests include image processing and using machine learning for image recognition with cell images.
Di Fan
fandi@uci.edu
Di Fan received his B.S. in Measurement and Control Technology from Jilin University, China in 2017, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California in 2020 and Computer Science from University of Southern California in 2021. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Irvine. His research focuses on image processing and computer vision.
Master Alumni
Kuan-Wei Chen
z9y8x71234@
gmail.com
Master MAE 2016. Kuan-Wei Chen received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2015 and his master in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from UCI. His research focuses on the manufacturing of soft nanostructured materials. Now he is working for TSMC in Taiwan. (2027)
Pranav Dubey
ppdubey@uci.edu
Master MSE 2017. Pranav Dubey received his B.Tech in Metallurgical Engineering from the College of Engineering, Pune in 2015 and his MS in Materials Science and Engineering from UCI. His research focuses on controlling copper surfaces’ wetting behaviors. Now he is working for Intel.
Bowen Shao
shaob1@uci.edu
Bowen Shao received his B.E. in Material Science and Engineering from the Southeast University, Nanjing, China in 2016. His current research focuses on anti-frost and self-clean performance of superhydrophobic surface and improvement of nano-structured materials via electrochemical methods. He is pursuing his Ph.D. degree at RPI.
Shuai Hao
shuaih5@uci.edu
Shuai Hao received his B.E. in Thermal Energy and Power Engineering from Sichuan University, Chengdu, China in 2016. His current research focuses on numerical analysis for two-phase flow including phase change phenomena in porous media and bubble behavior in the nucleate boiling regime.
Ronald Kwok
kwokr@uci.edu
Ronald Kwok received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in 2016. He is currently pursuing his M.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC Irvine. His current research focuses on fog harvesting with nanostructured surface of modified wettability.
Peter Simadiris
psimadir@uci.edu
Peter Simadiris received his B.S in Mechanical Engineering from UC Irvine in 2020. He is a first-year graduate student pursuing his M.S in Mechanical Engineering at UC Irvine.
His research focuses on image annotation used to predict boiling heat transfer.
Marissa Lee
marissnl@uci.edu
Marissa Lee is a first-year graduate student pursuing her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering. Her current research focuses on nanoscale phase change heat transfer.
Tiffany Inouye
inouyet@uci.edu
Tiffany Inouye is a first-year undergraduate student pursuing her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering. Her current research focuses on studying bubble and droplet dynamics during different types of heat transfer modes.
Yiming Shen
yimings10@uci.edu
Yiming Shen received his B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2021. He’s a first-year graduate student pursuing his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at UC Irvine.
Zelin Zhang
zelin5@uci.edu
Zelin Zhang received his B.S in Mechanical Engineering from North Dakota State University, North Dakota, in 2021. He is currently pursuing his M.S.in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in UC Irvine
Former Visitor
Shiwei Zhang
shiweiz4@uci.edu
Shiwei Zhang received his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from the South China University of Technology, China in 2017. He was a visiting student at Columbia University from 2015 to 2017 supported by a national fellowship from China. He studied nano/micro-structure-based boiling heat transfer and nanoscale interfacial properties by using molecular dynamics simulations in Won lab.
Undergraduate Alumni
Jamie Kim
jyesdhdy@gmail.com
Jamie Kim is a high school student who wants to experience Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. She worked as an intern during her summer break. She analyzed data and helped to make a homepage during her internship in 2017.
Hyunjin Cho
Hyunjc3@uci.edu
Hyunjin Cho received B.S in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Irvine in 2016. He worked with Professor Won for research Junior Specialist in 2017.
Mario Soler
msoler@uci.edu
Mario Soler is an Undergraduate Chemical Engineering student at UC Irvine. His current research focuses on utilizing different methods to obtain data in analyzing the wettability of nano-structured surfaces. He is a project manager for an Undergraduate Project called Chem-E-Car where students design and build a car that runs and stops based on chemical reactions.
Kush Thukral
kthukral@uci.edu
Kush Thukral is an Undergraduate in Chemical Engineering, with two minors: Material science Engineering, and Business Management. His research focuses on the preparation of the copper substrates for nanostructuring processes. He is completing his term on the Executive Board of the only Co-Ed Professional engineering fraternity on campus: Theta Tau. He also Is spearheading a High School Outreach program: “Samueli Academy”.
Ellie Duong Vy Le
duongvl@uci.edu
Ellie Duong Vy Le is currently a 4th year Chemical Engineering undergraduate. She is the 2017-2018 President of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers at UCI. She is also a member of the Engineers for Sustainable World and Chem-E-Car. Her research focuses on the evaporative heat transfer phenomena using nanostructured surfaces.
Emiko Soroka
esoroka@uci.edu
Emiko Soroka is an undergraduate Aerospace Engineering student minoring in Computer Science. She is a founding member and mechanical team lead for UCI CanSat. Her current research is with the design of thermal evaporator.
Amy Huynh
ahuynh10@uci.edu
Amy Huynh is a first-year undergraduate student pursuing her B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Her current research focuses on the material analysis of semi-ordered nanostructures.
Kayla Kim
kak14@rice.edu
Kayla Kim will be a first-year undergraduate student pursuing her B. S. in Biochemistry at Rice University. Her current research focuses on different types of heat transfer on a nanoscale.
Dale Lu
daleyl@uci.edu
Dale Lu is a fourth-year undergraduate student pursuing his B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering. His current research focuses on applying machine learning techniques to study heat transfer.