Profile of Principle Investigator

Faculty

Dr. Ben Xu, Assistant Professor, Presidential Frontier Faculty Fellow

Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of Houston

Office: N206 Engineering-1

Contact: bxu12@central.uh.edu

TEL: 713-743-7298

Education

• Ph.D. - Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona, 2015

• M.S. – Fluid Mechanics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2010

• B.S. – Thermo-fluids Engineering, Wuhan University, 2007

Employment

• 01/2023 - present: Assistant Professor, Presidential Frontier Faculty Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston

• 08/2020 - 12/2022: Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University

• 09/2016 - 08/2020: Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Enigneering, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

• 09/2015 - 08/2016: Postdoc Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Drexel University

• 06/2014 - 09/2014: Summer Research Internship, Bosch Research and Technology Center North America

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5ZSxNcQAAAAJ&hl=en

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-xu-95117028/