Editor (Gang Chen)

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Gang Chen is the Warren and Towneley Rohsenow Professor in the department of mechanical engineering at MIT. He received a B.S. and M.S. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China (1987) and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley (1993). He has held positions at Duke University and UCLA and is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award (1994) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2002). Some of Professor Chen's professional activities include:

Chair of the ASME Nanotechnology Institute Advisory Board Co-Editor: Annual Review of Heat Transfer Associate Editor: ASME Journal of Heat Transfer Editor: Microscale Thermophysical Engineering Professor Chen's research interests include: micro- and nanoscale heat transfer and energy conversion with applications in thermoelectrics, photonics, and microelectronics; nano-mechanical devices and micro-electro-mechanical systems; radiation and electromagnetic metamaterials. His teaching interests are focused on heat transfer, thermodynamics, micro/nano transport and technology, and radiation. He has recently written a textbook on nanoscale energy transport and conversion.