Team Members

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Sunmi Shin, Ph.D. (UC San Diego)

Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Dr Shin Sunmi joined the NUS faculty in August 2019. Prior to joining NUS, she received her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from UC San Diego in 2019 under the supervision of Prof. Renkun Chen. She specializes in an experimental investigation on fundamental nanoscale heat transport for thermal management and development of personalized thermo-regulators and energy harvesting devices using thermoelectric energy conversion. Her research interests include a multidisciplinary approach for efficient and active energy technologies across mechanical and electrical engineering and materials science. 

Office: EA 05-15

Tel: +65 6516 6350

Email: mpeshin@nus.edu.sg

Akash Mohapatra, Ph.D., Research Fellow

Akash joined the group in Feb 2024 as a Research Fellow. He completed his PhD. from the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai in Sep 2023. He is currently working on nanoscale heat transfer in the HEAT lab. 

Email: akash09@nus.edu 

Sichao Li, PhD candidate

Sichao joined the group in Aug 2020 for his PhD study after obtaining his M.S and B.S. from National University of Singapore and Dalian University of Technology (China) in 2019 and 2020, respectively. He works on nanoscale heat transfer under the supervision of Prof. Sunmi Shin and also co-supervised by Prof. Guangya Zhou. 

Email: e0452771@u.nus.edu 

Liang Zhang, PhD candidate

Liang joined the group in Aug 2020 for his PhD study after obtaining his M.S and B.S. from Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech, China) in 2018 and 2020, respectively. He works on nanoscale heat transfer under the supervision of Prof. Sunmi Shin and also co-supervised by Prof. Seeram Ramakrishna (NUS) and Prof. Liang Guo (SUSTech). 

Email: e0546055@u.nus.edu

Jingxuan Wang, PhD candidate

Jingxuan joins the group in Jan 2020. He obtained his B.S and M.S from Honors School in Harbin Institute of Technology(China) in 2016 and 2018 separately. He works on thermoelectrics and thermal engineering of soft materials under the supervision of Prof. Sunmi Shin and also co-supervised by Prof. Seeram Ramakrishna.

Email: wangjingxuan@u.nus.edu

Yi-Ming Zhao, PhD candidate

Yi-Ming joined the group in Aug 2021 for his PhD study after obtaining his M.S. and B.E. from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Dalian University of Technology (China) in 2021 and 2018, respectively. He works on high-throughput calculations and machine learning for accelerating discovery of 2D thermoelectric materials under the supervision of Prof. Sunmi Shin and also co-supervised by Dr. Shen Lei and Prof. Zhang Chun.

Email: e0792525@u.nus.edu

Yue Wen, PhD candidate

Paiting Liu, MS 

Paiting joined the group in Aug 2021 for his research-based Master's degree, after obtaining his B.S. from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2021. He works on nanoscale heat transfer under the supervision of Prof. Sunmi Shin and co-supervised by Prof. Kaiyang Zeng. 

Email: paiting_liu@u.nus.edu

Kefan Wu, Visiting Ph.D student

Kefan joined the group in Jan 2024 for his China Scholarship Council (CSC) study from Xi'an Jiaotong University for 12 months. He works on the thermoelectric property of hydrogels under the supervision of Prof. Sunmi Shin.

Email: e1331320@u.nus.edu

Xue Han, Visiting Ph.D student

Xue joined the group in Sep 2023 for her China Scholarship Council (CSC) study from Donghua University for 12 months. She works on thermoelectric supercooling under the supervision of Prof. Sunmi Shin.

Email: e1293541@u.nus.edu

Tian Li, Visiting Ph.D student

Tian joined the group in Sep 2023 for her China Scholarship Council (CSC) study from Xi'an Jiaotong University for 6 months. She works on thermal engineering of semi-crystalline materials under the supervision of Prof. Sunmi Shin.

Email: e1307208@u.nus.edu

Linfeng Yu, Visiting Ph.D student

Linfeng joined the group in Jan 2024 for his China Scholarship Council (CSC) study for 12 months. He works on the calculation of phonon transport under the supervision of Prof. Sunmi Shin.

Email: e1331211@u.nus.edu

FYP Undergraduate Students

Xu Kexin (Aug 2021 - current)

Lu Zhengye (Aug 2021 - current)

Poh Jun Hui (Aug 2021 - current)

Chua Yi Ru (Aug 2021 - current)

Yeo Yong Wei, Shawn (Aug 2021 - current)

Dylan Wong Eng Wai (Aug 2021 - current)

Chan Yu Bin, Benjamin (Jan 2021 - current)

Joesph Paul Shutler (Aug 2020 - April 2021, topic: wearable heating gloves) 

Attenborough Ashley Ken (Aug 2020 - April 2021, topic: thermal engineering of soft mataerials)

Matthew Chong Lyen Zhen (Aug 2020 - April 2021, topic: thermal engineering of soft materials)

Tan Hong Yu (Aug 2020 - April 2021, topic: thermal engineering of soft materials)

Ong Yong Jie, Kelvin (Aug 2020 - April 2021, topic: thermoelectrics)

Muhammad Zaki Bin Ramli (Aug 2020 - April 2021, topic: thermoelectrics)

Chen Yangjun (Aug 2020 - April 2021, topic: thermal engineering of plastics)

Attenborough Ashley Ken Jun Ming (Aug 2020 - April 2021, topic: thermal engineering of plastics)


Alumni

Pengpeng Zhang M.Eng Student Grad Student at Northwestern

Zonglin Li M.Sc Student Huawei

Prasad Harinder M.Sc Student

Luyang Liang Visiting Ph.D Student ( Zhengzhou University )

Tianying Qin Visiting Ph.D Student ( University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC))

Wenqi Wang Visiting Ph.D student (Xi’an Jiaotong University)

Duo Pan Visiting Ph.D student (Zhengzhou University)