I am an Associate 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 broad area of heat transfer in microelectronics and nanostructures, multimodal sensing of human behavior, computational modeling of forced and natural heat convection.

Sensing of Human Behavior

We are exploring a new generation of computational tools for joint modeling of human behavior. Using information drawn from physiological sensing (e.g., heart rate, respiration rate, galvanic skin response, skin temperature), gesture analysis, and linguistic signals, we develop models able to detect and analyse various human behaviors, including thermal discomfort, driver alertness, acute stress. Our data-driven learning approaches take advantage of the recent progress in early, late, and temporal fusion models

Thermoreflectance

One of our main research goals is to advance the understanding of the thermal behavior of modern microelectronic devices. We focus on using experimental, numerical, and analytical tools to improve the design of to-be-built devices, to analyze the thermal behavior of existing devices, and to characterize the thermophysical properties of nanoscale films. An important result of our research in this area is the fact that it is now possible to rapidly design and build a thermoreflectance system and to easily identify the optimal composition and geometry of the samples to be tested.

Multimodal detection of deception

We work on the automatic identification of deception in a multimodal setting, using data collected from lab experiments as well as from real-life situations (e.g., trial data). Our multimodal deception detection system relies on both verbal and non-verbal clues to discriminate between truthful and deceptive statements, with accuracies in the range of 60-75%, which exceeds by a large margin the non-expert human performance on this task.

Multimodal detection of thermal comfort

Publications

2021

Michalis Papakostas, Kapotaksha Das , Mohamed Abouelenien , Rada Mihalcea and Mihai Burzo, “Distracted and Drowsy Driving Modeling Using Deep Physiological Representations and Multitask Learning”, Applied Sciences, volume 11, number 1, January 2021.


Michalis Papakostas, Karis Riani, Andrew Gasiorowski, Yan Sun, Mohamed Abouelenien, Rada Mihalcea, and Mihai Burzo, “Understanding Driving Distractions: A Multimodal Analysis on Distraction Characterization”, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2021), April 2021 - Honorable Mention for Outstanding Paper Award.

Yiqun Yao, Michalis Papakostas, Mihai Burzo, Mohamed Abouelenien, Rada Mihalcea, “ MUSER: MUltimodal Stress Detection using Emotion Recognition as an Auxiliary Task”, in Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Association of Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2021), June 2021.


Hussein Kokash. Mihai Burzo, Khalil Khanafer, Bharat Gokeda, “Investigation of a Coanda-Effect Enhanced HVAC Diffuser Using CFD Analysis,” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2021, November 1-5, online.


2020

Umut Sen, Veronica Perez-Rosas, Berrin Yanikoglu, Mohamed Abouelenien, Mihai Burzo, Rada Mihalcea, ”Multimodal Deception Detection using Real-Life Trial Data”, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing Journal, December 2020. Impact factor 7.51


Mimansa Jaiswal, Cristian-Paul Bara, Yuanhang Luo, Mihai Burzo, Rada Mihalcea, Emily Mower Provost, MuSE: a Multimodal dataset of Stressed Emotion, Proceedings of LREC, Marseille, France, online, May 2020, pp. 1492‑1503. Impact Score 3.13


Kais Riani, Michalis Papakostas, Hussein Kokash, Mohamed Abouelenien, Mihai Burzo, Rada Mihalcea, “ Towards Detecting Levels of Alertness in Drivers Using Multiple Modalities”, in Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 2020), online, June 30, 2020.


Y. Yao, V. Perez-Rosas, M. Abouelenien, and M. Burzo "MORSE: MultimOdal sentiment analysis for Real-life SEttings," in Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '20), Netherlands, November 2020.


Yiqun Yao, Mihai Burzo, Veronica Pérez-Rosas, Mohamed Abouelenien, Rada Mihalcea, Multimodal Affect Detection for Raw Videos and Imbalanced Labels, International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), Utrecht, the Netherlands, October 25-29, 2020.


Kais Riani, Michalis Papakostas, Hussein Kokash, Mohamed Abouelenien, Mihai Burzo, Rada Mihalcea, Towards Detecting Levels of Alertness in Drivers Using Multiple Modalities, PETRA, Corfu, Greece, June 30-July 3, 2020.


C. Hessler, M. Abouelenien, and M. Burzo “A Non-contact Method for Extracting Heart and Respiration Rates,” in the 2020 17th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), IEEE, Ottawa, ON, Canada, May 2020.


2019

Mihai Burzo, Veronica Perez-Rosas, Daniel McDuff, Louis-Philippe Morency, Alexis Narvaez, Rada Mihalcea, “Sensing Affective Response to Visual Narratives”, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, Volume 14, Issue 2, pp 54-66, May 2019.

Mohamed Abouelenien and Mihai Burzo, Detecting Thermal Discomfort of Drivers Using Physiological Sensors and Thermal Imaging, IEEE Intelligent Systems, Volume 34, Issue 5, pp 3-13, September - October 2019.

M. Abouelenien, M. Burzo, V. Pérez-Rosas, R. Mihalcea, H. Sun and B. Zhao, “Gender Differences in Multimodal Contact-Free Deception Detection,” in IEEE MultiMedia Journal, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 19-30, July – September 2019.


Mimansa Jaiswal, Zach Aldeneh, Cristian Paul Bara, Yunghan Luo, Mihai Burzo, Rada Mihalcea, Emily Mower Provost, Muse-ing on the Impact of Utterance Ordering on Crowdsourced Emotion Annotations, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing 2019 (ICASSP 2019).


Mimansa Jaiswal, Zakaria Aldeneh, Cristian-Paul Bara, Yuanhang Luo, Mihai Burzo, Rada Mihalcea, Emily Mower Provost, “MUSE-ing on the impact of utterance ordering on crowdsourced emotion annotations,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brighton, UK, May 2019.


2018

Mohamed Abouelenien, Mihai Burzo, Veronica Perez-Rosas, Rada Mihalcea, Haitian Sun, Bohan Zhao, “Gender Differences in Multimodal Contact-Free Deception Detection”, IEEE Multimedia, 2018.


Mihai Burzo and Ming Li, “Investigation of pressure dependence of interface thermal resistance in thermal greases by transient Thermoreflectance,” in Proceedings of the 34th IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement, Modeling, and Management Symposium (SEMITHERM), San Jose, CA, pp. 190-196, March 19-22, 2018.


Christian Hessler, Mohamed Abouelenien, and Mihai Burzo, “A Survey on Extracting Physiological Measurements from Thermal Images,” Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA '18), June 26 - 29, 2018, Corfu, Greece.


2017

Mohamed Abouelenien, Veronica Perez-Rosas, Rada Mihalcea, Mihai Burzo, “Detecting Deceptive Behavior via Integration of Discriminative Features from Multiple Modalities”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 12, no.5, pp. 1042-1054, 2017.


Mohamed Abouelenien, Veronica Perez-Rosas, Rada Mihalcea, and Mihai Burzo, “Multimodal Gender Detection,” in Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2017), Glasgow, Scotland, pp. 302-311, November 2017, 18% acceptance rate.


Mohamed Abouelenien, Veronica Perez-Rosas, Bohan Zhao, Rada Mihalcea and Mihai Burzo, “Gender-based Multimodal Deception Detection,” in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2017), Marrakech, Morocco, pp. 137-144, May 2017, 23% acceptance rate.


Mihai Burzo, Mohamed Abouelenien, David Van Alstine, Kristen Rusinek, “Thermal Discomfort Detection Using Thermal Imaging,” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Tampa, Florida, USA, pp. 1-11, November 3–9, 2017.


Mohamed Abouelenien, Mihai Burzo, Rada Mihalcea, Kristen Rusinek, David Van Alstine, “Detecting Human Thermal Discomfort via Physiological Signals,” Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA '17), pp. 146-149, June 2017.


Konstantinos Tsiakas, Michalis Papakostas, Michail Theofanidis, Morris Bell, Rada Mihalcea, Shouyi Wang, Mihai Burzo and Fillia Makedon, “An Interactive Multisensing Framework for Personalized Human Robot Collaboration and Assistive Training Using Reinforcement Learning,” Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA '17), pp. 423-427, June 2017.


2016

Mohamed Abouelenien, Mihai Burzo, Rada Mihalcea, Human Acute Stress Detection via Integration of Physiological Signals and Thermal Imaging, in Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 2016), Corfu, Greece, July 2016. [pdf] Best paper award


Mohamed Abouelenien, Rada Mihalcea, Mihai Burzo, Analyzing Thermal and Visual Clues of Deception for a Non-Contact Deception Detection Approach, in Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 2016), Corfu, Greece, July 2016. [pdf]


Mohamed Abouelenien, Rada Mihalcea, and Mihai Burzo, “Analyzing Thermal and Visual Clues of Deception for a Non-Contact Deception Detection Approach”, in Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 2016), Corfu, Greece, pp. 1-4, July 2016.


2015

Yu-Cheng Liu, Mihai G. Burzo, Scott Sier and Cassandra Ellis, Improved Thermal Comfort of Office Occupants Through Better Air Diffuser Designs, under review in the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Houston, November 2015.

Veronica Perez-Rosas, Mohamed Abouelenien, Rada Mihalcea, Mihai Burzo, Deception Detection using Real-life Trial Data, in Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2015), Seattle, November 2015. [pdf]


Rada Mihalcea, Pallavi Moghe, Mihai Burzo, Women in Mechanical Engineering: The Gender (Im)balance by the Numbers, Proceedings of ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE), Houston, TX, November 2015. [pdf]


Veronica Perez-Rosas, Mohamed Abouelenien, Rada Mihalcea, Yao Xiao, CJ Linton and Mihai Burzo, Verbal and Nonverbal Clues for Real-life Deception Detection, in Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2015), Lisbon, Portugal, September 2015.[pdf]


Mohamed Abouelenien, Mihai Burzo, Rada Mihalcea, Cascaded Multimodal Analysis of Alertness Related Features for Drivers Safety Applications, in Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 2015), Corfu, Greece, July 2015.[pdf]


Mohamed Abouelenien, Rada Mihalcea, Mihai Burzo, Trimodal Analysis of Deceptive Behavior, Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Multimodal Deception Detection, Seattle, WA, November 2015.[pdf]


2014

Veronica Perez-Rosas, Cristian Bologa, Mihai Burzo, Rada Mihalcea, Deception Detection Within and Across Cultures, in ``Text mining,'', Springer, 2014.[pdf]


Mohamed Abouelenien, Veronica Perez-Rosas, Rada Mihalcea, Mihai Burzo, Deception Detection Using a Multimodal Approach, in Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2014), Istanbul, Turkey, November 2014.[pdf]


Mihai Burzo, Mohamed Abouelenien, Veronica Perez-Rosas, Cakra Wicaksono, Yong Tao, Rada Mihalcea, Using Infrared Thermography and Biosensors to Detect Thermal Discomfort in a Building's Inhabitants, in Proceedings of ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE 2014), Montreal, Canada, November 2014.[pdf]


Mihai Burzo, Cakra Wicaksono, Mohamed Abouelenien, Veronica Perez-Rosas, Rada Mihalcea, Yong Tao, Multimodal Sensing of Thermal Discomfort for Adaptive Energy Saving in Buildings, in Proceedings of the Net Zero Symposium, Florida, March 2014.[pdf]


Veronica Perez-Rosas, Rada Mihalcea, Alexis Narvaez and Mihai Burzo, A Multimodal Dataset for Deception Detection, in Proceedings of the Conference on Language Resources and Evaluations (LREC 2014), Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2014.[pdf]


2013

Veronica-Perez Rosas, Rada Mihalcea, Mihai Burzo, Automatic Detection of Deceit in Verbal Communication, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2013), Sydney, Australia, December 2013. [pdf]


Veronica Perez-Rosas, Alexis Narvaez, Mihai Burzo, Rada Mihalcea, Thermal Imaging for Affect Detection, in the International Conference on Pervasive Technologies for Assistive Environments (PETRA 2013), Rhodes Island, Greece, May 2013.


Ickchan Kim, Mihai G. Burzo, Pavel L. Komarov, Peter E. Raad, Thermal Conductivity Measurements of Ultra-thin Amorphous Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) Films using the Transient Thermoreflectance Method, ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, San Diego, CA, November 2013.


Mihai G. Burzo, Cakra Wickasono*, Choi Tae, Peter E. Raad, and Pavel L. Komarov, Measurement of Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluids and Thermal Interface Materials Using the Laser-Based Transient Thermoreflectance Method, 29th Semiconductor Thermal Measurement, Modeling, and Management Symposium (SEMITHERM), San Jose, CA, March 18-22, 2013 - Best paper award


2012

Mihai Burzo, Alexis Narvaez, Measurement of Thermal Conductivity and Interface Thermal Resistance of Multilayered Thin-Films Using Variable Pulse-Width Transient Thermoreflectance, ASME 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Houston, November 2012.


Mihai G. Burzo, Peter E. Raad, Taehun Lee, and Pavel L. Komarov, Thermal Conductivity Measurements of Novel SOI Films using Submicron Thermography and Transient Thermoreflectance, 28th Semiconductor Thermal Measurement, Modeling, and Management Symposium (SEMITHERM), San Jose, CA, March 18-22, 2012.


Mihai Burzo, Daniel McDuff, Rada Mihalcea, Louis-Philippe Morency, Alexis Narvaez and Veronica Perez-Rosas, Towards Sensing the Influence of Visual Narratives on Human Affect, in Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Santa Monica, October 2012.


Rada Mihalcea and Mihai Burzo, Towards Multimodal Deception Detection -- Step 1: Building a Collection of Deceptive Videos, in Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Santa Monica, October 2012.


2011

Peter E. Raad, Pavel L. Komarov, Mihai G. Burzo, Taehun Lee, Moon J. Kim, and, Jim Wilson, Thermal Mapping of Delphi Thermal Test Dies, 27th Semiconductor Thermal Measurement, Modeling, and Management Symposium (SEMITHERM), San Jose, CA, March 20-24, 2011.


Taehun Lee, Mihai G. Burzo, Pavel L. Komarov, Peter E. Raad, and M. J. Kim, Direct observation of heat transport in AlN film using thermal imaging and transient thermal reflectance method, Solid State Letters 14, H184-186, 2011.


2010

I. Haneef, M. Burzo, S. Z. Ali, 4, P. Komarov, F. Udrea, P. E. Raad, Thermal Characterization of SOI CMOS Micro Hot-plate Gas Sensors, 16th International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems (THERMINIC), Barcelona, Spain, pp. 1-4, 6-8 October, 2010.


Taehun Lee, Mihai G. Burzo, Peter E. Raad, Ali E. Aliev, Pavel L. Komarov, and Moon J. Kim, New SOI substrates with high thermal conductivity for high performance mixed-signal applications, Electrochemical Society Transactions, Vol. 33, Issue 4, pp. 145-151, 2010. – Best paper award


2009

Mihai G. Burzo, Pavel L. Komarov and, Peter E. Raad, Pixel-by-Pixel Calibration of a CCD Camera Based Thermoreflectance Thermography System with Nanometer Resolution, 15th International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems (THERMINIC), Leuven, Belgium, pp. 130-135, 7-9 October, 2009.


Peter E. Raad, Mihai G. Burzo and, Pavel L. Komarov, Numerical simulation of complex submicron devices with experimentally determined power maps, 15th International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems (THERMINIC), Leuven, Belgium, pp. 36-39, 7-9 October, 2009.


Peter E. Raad, Pavel L. Komarov and Mihai G. Burzo, Numerical Simulation of Complex Submicron Devices, Electronics Cooling, Vol. 15, No. 2, page 18-22, May 2009.


2008

Peter E. RAAD, Pavel L. Komarov, Mihai G. Burzo, Challenges in Submicron Thermal Measurements and Computations, International Symposium on Thermal Design and Thermophysical Property for Electronics, Tsukuba, Japan, June 18-20, 2008.


Peter E. Raad, Pavel L. Komarov, and Mihai G. Burzo, Thermo-Reflectance Thermography for Submicron Temperature Measurements, Electronics Cooling, Vol. 14, No. 1, page 28-29, February 2008.


P. E. Raad, P. L. Komarov, and M. G. Burzo, Thermal characterization of embedded electronic features by an integrated system of CCD thermography and self-adaptive numerical modeling, Microelectronics Journal, Vol. 39, Issue 7, pp. 1008-1015, 2008.


2007

Peter E. Raad, Pavel L. Komarov and Mihai G. Burzo, An Integrated Experimental and Computational System for the Thermal Characterization of Complex Three-Dimensional Submicron Electronic Devices, IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, Vol. 30, pp 597 – 603, 2007.


Raad, P.E., Komarov, P. L., and Burzo, M. G., Non-Contact Surface Temperature Measurements Coupled with Ultrafast Real-Time Computation, 23rd Semiconductor Thermal Measurement, Modeling, and Management Symposium (SEMITHERM), San Jose, CA, pp. 57-63, 2007.


Pavel L. Komarov, Mihai G. Burzo and, Peter E. Raad, Influence of transparent surface layer on effective thermoreflectance coefficient of typical stacked electronic structures, 13th International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems (THERMINIC), Budapest, Hungary, pp. 126-127, September 17-19, 2007.


2006

Pavel L. Komarov, Mihai G. Burzo and, Peter E. Raad, CCD thermoreflectance thermography system : methodology and experimental validation, 12th International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems (THERMINIC), Nice, Côte d’Azur, pp. 126-127, September 27-29, 2006.


Peter E. Raad Pavel L. Komarov and, Mihai G. Burzo, A Coupled Thermoreflectance Thermography Experimental System and Ultra-Fast Adaptive Computational Engine for the Complete Thermal Characterization of Three-Dimensional Electronic Devices: Validation, 12th International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems (THERMINIC), Nice, Côte d’Azur, pp. 126-127, September 27-29, 2006.


Mihai G. Burzo, Pavel L. Komarov, and Peter E. Raad, Optimized Thermo-Reflectance System for Measuring the Thermal Properties of Thin-Films and Their Interfaces, 22nd Semiconductor Thermal Measurement, Modeling, and Management Symposium (SEMITHERM), Dallas, Texas, March 14-16, 2006.


Pavel L. Komarov, Mihai G. Burzo, and Peter E. Raad, A Thermoreflectance Thermography System for Measuring the Transient Surface Temperature Field of Activated Electronic Device, 22nd Semiconductor Thermal Measurement, Modeling, and Management Symposium (SEMITHERM), Dallas, Texas, March 14-16, 2006.


Peter E. Raad, Pavel L. Komarov and Mihai G. Burzo, Coupling Surface Temperature Scanning and Ultra-Fast Adaptive Computing to Thermally Fully Characterize Complex Three-Dimensional Electronic Devices, 22nd Semiconductor Thermal Measurement, Modeling, and Management Symposium (SEMITHERM), Dallas, Texas, March 14-16, 2006 – Best paper award


2005

Peter E. Raad, Pavel L. Komarov and Mihai G. Burzo, An Integrated Experimental and Computational System for the Thermal Characterization of Complex Three-Dimensional Submicron Electronic Devices, 11th International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems (THERMINIC), Belgirate, Lake Maggiore, Italy, 27 - 30 September 2005.


Mihai G. Burzo, Pavel L. Komarov, and Peter E. Raad, An Optimized Thermo-Reflectance Technique for Thermal Conductivity Measurements of Thin-Film Electronic Materials, 28th International Thermal Conductivity Conference (ITCC) and the 14th International Thermal Expansion Symposium (ITES), New Brunswick, Canada, June 26-29, 2005.


Pavel L. Komarov, Mihai G. Burzo, and Peter E. Raad, A Thermoreflectance Thermography System for Measuring the Transient Surface Temperature of Active Microelectronic Devices, 15th European Microelectronics and Packaging Conference & Exhibition, Brugge, Belgium, June 12 - 15, 2005,


Mihai G. Burzo, Pavel L. Komarov, and Peter E. Raad, Non-Contact Transient Temperature Mapping Of Active Electronic Devices Using The Thermoreflectance Method, in IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, 2005.


Pavel L. Komarov, Mihai G. Burzo, and Peter E. Raad, Thermal Characterization of Pulse-Activated Microelectronic Devices by Thermoreflectance-Based Surface Temperature Scanning, in The Pacific Rim/ASME International Electronic Packaging Technical Conference and Exhibition on Integration and Packaging of MEMS, NEMS and Electronic Systems (InterPACK’05), San Francisco, Ca, July 17-22, 2005.


2004

Mihai G. Burzo, Pavel L. Komarov, and Peter E. Raad , Minimizing the Uncertainties Associated with the Measurement of Thermal Properties by the Transient Thermo-Reflectance Method, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, 2004.


Mihai G. Burzo, Dani Fadda and Peter E. Raad, Fluid Flow Regimes in a Combustion Duct Induced by Natural Convection, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2004.


Mihai G. Burzo, Pavel L. Komarov, and Peter E. Raad, Non-Contact Transient Temperature Mapping of Active Electronic Devices Using the Thermoreflectance Method, 10th International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems, Sophia Antipolis, Côte d'Azur, France, September 29 - October 1, 2004.


Mihai G. Burzo, Pavel L. Komarov, and Peter E. Raad, Non-contact Thermal Conductivity Measurements of Gold Covered Natural and Isotopically-Pure Silicon and Their Respective Oxides, 5th International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Thermo-mechanical Simulation and Experiments in Micro-electronics and Micro-systems (EUROSIME 2004), Brussels, Belgium, May 10-12, 2004


2003

Mihai G. Burzo, Pavel L. Komarov, and Peter E. Raad, Thermal Transport Properties of Gold-Covered Thin-Film Silicon Dioxide, IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 80-88, March 2003.


Pavel L. Komarov, Mihai G. Burzo, Gunhan Kaytaz and Peter E. Raad, Transient Thermo-Reflectance Measurements of the Thermal Conductivity and Interface Resistance of Metallized Natural and Isotopically-Pure Silicon, Microelectronics Journal (published by Elsevier Science), Vol. 34, No. 12, pp. 1115-1118, 2003.


Mihai G. Burzo, Pavel L. Komarov, and Peter E. Raad, Minimizing the Uncertainties Associated with the Measurements of Thermal Properties by the Transient Thermo-Reflectance Method, 9th International IEEE Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems (THERMINIC), Aix-en-Provence, France, September 24-26, 2003.


2002

Mihai G. Burzo, Transient Thermoreflectance Measurements of the Thermal Properties of Metallized Thin Film Electronics Materials, Ph.D. Dissertation, SMU, Dallas, TX, 2002


Mihai G. Burzo, Pavel L. Komarov, and Peter E. Raad, A Study of the Effect of Surface Metallization on Thermal Conductivity Measurements by the Transient Thermo-Reflectance Method, Journal of Heat Transfer (ASME), December 2002, Vol. 124, pp. 1009-1019, 2002.


Mihai G. Burzo, Pavel L. Komarov, and Peter E. Raad, Influence of a Metallic Absorption Layer on the Quality of Thermal Conductivity Measurements by the Transient Thermo-Reflectance Method, Microelectronics Journal (published by Elsevier Science), Vol. 33, pp. 697-703, 2002


Mihai G. Burzo, Pavel L. Komarov, and Peter E. Raad, Thermal Transport Properties of Gold-Covered Thin-Film Silicon Dioxide, ITherm 2002 (ASME/IEEE International Conference on Thermal, Mechanics and Thermo-mechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems), May 29 - June 1, 2002, San Diego, California - Nominated for best paper award.


Pavel L. Komarov, Mihai G. Burzo, Gunhan Kaytaz and Peter E. Raad, Transient Thermo-Reflectance Measurements of the Thermal Conductivity and Interface Resistance of Metallized Natural and Isotopically-Pure Silicon, 8th International IEEE Workshop on THERMal INvestigations of ICs and Systems (THERMINIC), October 1-4, 2002, Madrid, Spain.


Mihai G. Burzo, Pavel L. Komarov, and Peter E. Raad, A Study of the Effect of Surface Metallization on Thermal Conductivity Measurements by the Transient Thermo-Reflectance Method, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), November 17-22, 2002, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.


2001

Mihai G. Burzo, Pavel L. Komarov, and Peter E. Raad, Influence of a Metallic Absorption Layer on the Quality of Thermal Conductivity Measurements by the Transient Thermo-Reflectance Method, 7th International IEEE Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems (THERMINIC), September 24-27, 2001, Paris, France.


Mihai G. Burzo, Dani Fadda, and Peter E. Raad, Buoyancy Induced Flow in a Vertical Combustion Discharge Duct, Proceedings of the 3rd ASME/JSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference, July 18-23, 1999, San Francisco, California.

Mihai G. Burzo, Dani Fadda, and Peter E. Raad, Instability Regimes for Buoyancy Induced Flows in a Non-uniformly Cooled Duct, American Physical Society - Division of Fluid Mechanics Meeting, November 22-24, 1998, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.


Teaching


I have been teaching several graduate and undergraduate classes in mechanical engineering, in the areas of thermodynamics, statics, heat transfer, dynamics, and others.


EGR 230 Statics

Understanding of the principles of mechanics and their application to the solution of engineering problems, especially in equilibrium state. Free-body diagrams introduced; equilibrium problems and resultants of general force systems stressed.


EGR 353 Thermodynamics

Study of the first and second laws of thermodynamics and their applications to the analysis of processes involving the control and utilization of energy. Properties and behavior of pure substances, ideal gases, and mixtures; heat engine and refrigeration cycles.


EGR 355 Thermal Sciences Laboratory

Laboratory experiments in the thermal properties of matter, including thermodynamic states, transport and transfer of thermal energy, momentum and mass, with and without internal thermal sources, and the transient and steady-state thermal properties of matter.


EGR 350 Fluid Mechanics

Introduction to the mechanics of fluids. Fluid properties, kinematics, fluid statics, Bernoulli equation, control volume; differential forms of the fundamental laws, dimensional analysis, similitude and fluid/flow phenomena. Computational fluid dynamics.


EGR 356 Heat Transfer

Conductive, convective, and radiative heat transfer in steady state and transient conditions. Convection in external and internal flow, and free convection.


EGR 370 Dynamics

Application of principles of mechanics and other engineering science to analysis of force systems in motion, including kinematics of particles and rigid bodies; kinetics of particles and rigid bodies by Newton’s laws; work and energy methods; impulse and momentum.


EGR 532 Advance Thermodynamics

Advanced classical thermodynamics. Thermodynamic Relations, equations of state for non-ideal gases, mixtures and solutions, phase and chemical behavior, combustion. Applications to internal combustion engines, refrigeration and air conditioning.

Contact

Mihai Burzo, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Frances Willson Thompson Fellow

University of Michigan-Flint

483E Murchie Science Building Expansion

415 E. Kearsley

Flint, MI, 48503

(tel) 810-237-6677

mburzo at umich.edu


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