I am a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Frances Willson Thompson Fellow at the University of Michigan-Flint. Prior to joining Univerity of Michigan in 2013, I was an Assistant Professor at University of North Texas. My research interests include heat transfer in microelectronics and nanostructures, thermal properties of thin films of new and existing materials, multimodal sensing of human behavior, computational modeling of forced and natural heat convection. I am the recipient of several awards including the 2006 Harvey Rosten Award for Excellence for “outstanding work in the field of thermal analysis of electronic equipment”, the best paper awards at PETRA conference (2016), Semitherm conference (2013 and 2006), the Young Engineer of the Year from the North Texas Section of ASME (2006), a Leadership Award from SMU (2002), and a Valedictorian Award (1995).


Projects


My research projects are in the areas of heat transfer in microelectronics and nanostructures, the thermal properties of thin films of both new and existing materials, thermal imaging and biosensors for human behavior modeling (such as thermal comfort, driver alertness, cognitive load, affect, stress, and lie detection), medical diagnosis, and the computational modeling of forced and natural heat convection.