Biography
Yuan is the Director of the Laboratory for Sustanable and Nano-Manufacturing and also the Director of the DOE Industrial Assessment Center at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, working with dozens of manufacturing companies on sustainable manufacturing research and practices. Currently he is the Chair of ASME Life Cycle Engineering Technical Committee, and also an editor for International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment (impact factor: 3.988). He is a recipient of the 2014 National Science Foundation Career Award, the 2014 State of Wisconsin "Citation of Commendation" Award, the 2013 Gustav Olling Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), as well as the LEO Best Paper Award from the 2013 CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering. He is the Conference Program Co-Chair of the International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST) during 2012-2015, and also a Symposium Chair for ASME Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC) during 2011-2014. He is an active reviewer for 50+ international journals including Environmental Science and Technology, ACS Nano, Advanced Materials, Nano Energy, Journal of Power Sources, Applied Energy, etc., and also for such premier conference proceedings including ASME MSEC, ASME IDETC, ASME IMECE, ASME ISFA, CIRP LCE, IEEE ISSST, IEEE CASE, etc. He is a panel reviewer of the ISSST Student Paper Competition and also a Judge of the ISSST Student Poster Competition. He served fequently on funding proposal panel reviews for National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, and the ACS Petroleum Research Fund (PRF). He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a seniore member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and a Research Affiliate of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP).
Research Interest
Nanotechnology, Advanced NanoMaterials, Nano Energy.
Biography
Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering and the director of Aerospace Research and Education Center at Washington University in St. Louis. From 1994 to 2001, he was the Sam Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University in Kansas. From 1978 to 1994, he worked in various scientific and managerial positions at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories in St. Louis. He became the Program Director and McDonnell Douglas Fellow in 1990. Dr. Agarwal received Ph.D. in Aeronautical Sciences from Stanford University in 1975, M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1969 and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1968. Over a period of 35+ years, Professor Agarwal has worked in various areas of Computational Science and Engineering - Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Computational Materials Science, Computational Electromagnetics (CEM), and Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization. He is the author and coauthor of over 400 publications. He has also worked in Nanotechnology and Renewable Energy, in particular in nanoparticles properties, synthesis, and their applications in drug delivery and their health effects, and energetic materials for solar energy applications. He has given many plenary, keynote and invited lectures at various national and international conferences worldwide. Professor Agarwal continues to serve on many academic, government, and industrial advisory committees.Agarwal is a Fellow sixteen societies including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society (APS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Royal Aeronautical Society and American society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He has received many prestigious honors and national/international awards from various professional societies and organizations for his research contributions.
Research Interest
Nanotechnology and Renewable Energy, in particular in nano particles properties, synthesis, and their applications in drug delivery and their health effects, and energetic materials for solar energy applications.
Biography
Cengiz Ozkan is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Riverside since 2009. He was an Associate Professor from 2006 to 2009 and an Assistant Professor from 2001-2006. Between 2000-2001, he was a consulting professor at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University in 1997. His advisors were W. Nix and H. Gao.Ozkan’s areas of expertise include nanomaterials for energy storage; synthesis and processing including graphene, III-V and II-VI materials; novel battery and supercapacitor architectures; nanoelectronics; biochemical sensors; and nanopatterning for beyond CMOS. He organized and chaired 14 scientific and international conferences; He has more than 200 technical publications including journal papers, conference proceedings and book chapters; over 50 patent disclosures, has given more than 100 presentations worldwide and is the recipient of more than 30 honors and awards. His important contributions include: the first time growth of hierarchical three dimensional graphene nanostructures; development of a unique high-throughput metrology method for large-area CVD grown graphene sheets; doping and functionalization of CVD grown and pristine graphene layers; study of digital data transmission in graphene and InSb materials; memory devices based on inorganic/organic nanocomposites, novel lithium-ion batteries based on nano-silicon from beach sand and silicon dioxide nanotubes; fast charging lithium-ion batteries based on silicon decorated three dimensional nano-carbon architectures; and high performance supercapacitors based on three dimensional graphene foam architectures.
Research Interest
Nanotechnology,nano-carbon,nano-silicon,silicon dioxide nanotubes.