AUTSE Outstanding Achievement Awardee
2020 AUTSE Outstanding Achievement Awardee
| Professor Ken Okazaki (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) |
2020 AUTSE Outstanding Achievement Awardee
| Professor Sang Yong Lee (KAIST, Korea) |
2017 AUTSE Outstanding Achievement Awardee
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The Executive Committee of AUTSE has decided that Professor Zeng-Yuan Guo of Tsinghua University shall be awarded the first Outstanding Achievement Award for his life-time achievements in thermal sciences and engineering. The committee valued his original research encompassing thermofluid dynamics, thermal synergy, micro/nano heat transfer mechanisms, thermomass theory and entransy, which has transformed our understanding of the physical mechanisms in many kinds of thermal systems and led to very effective methods to optimize thermal designs. The award lecture and ceremony will be given during the 1st Asian Conference on Thermal Sciences (ACTS), which is going to be held in Jeju, Korea in March 2017. The details can be found in the webpage of ACTS, http://acts2017.org. |
| Professor Zeng-Yuan Guo (Tsinghua University, China) |
AUTSE Young Scientist Awardee
2022 AUTSE Young Scientist Awardee
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Dr. Aoran Fan is an assistant research fellow of the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics in the School of Aerospace Engineering at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. She received her B.E. degree and Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University, respectively in 2015 and 2021. Her research results have been published in 21 journal articles. And she has authorized 20 patents. She received three awards from Asian Thermophysical Properties Conference in 2022, 2019 and 2016, and two awards form Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics in 2021 and 2019. |
| Dr. Aoran FAN (Assistant Research Fellow, Tsinghua University, China) |
2022 AUTSE Young Scientist Awardee
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Dr. Hyeong-U. Kim received his B.S. from Hanyang University in 2013 and his PhD degree in 2019 from Sungkyunkwan University. He is currently a senior researcher in the Department of Plasma Engineering at the Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM). He made an excellent research and achievements in the areas of plasma engineering, nanometer-scaled engineering, plasma monitoring, electrochemistry and 2D materials. His research was related to the improvement of the plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) synthesis methods for the application to 2D materials such as thin films for semiconductor futuristic industry. |
| Dr. Hyeong-U KIM (Senior Researcher, Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials, Korea) |
2022 AUTSE Young Scientist Awardee
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Dr Yutaku Kita is a Lecturer in Engineering at King’s College London. He studied mechanical engineering at National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), Miyakonojo College and then Kyushu University. He was also a visiting student at the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of Edinburgh. He received his PhD in 2018. Prior to joining King’s College London in 2023, he was an Assistant Professor in Kyushu University, Japan between 2019 – 2022. He made an excellent research and achievement in the areas of phase change (boiling, evaporation and condensation) heat transfer, multiphase flow (drops, droplets), wetting and interfacial phenomena and flow thermal imaging techniques. He devoted to experimental understanding of the droplet dynamics on interfaces whose temperatures and wettability has gradients. |
| Dr. Yutaku KITA (Lecturer, King’s College London, UK) |
2020 AUTSE Young Scientist Awardee
| Dr. Boxiang Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) |
2020 AUTSE Young Scientist Awardee
| Dr. Tsuyoshi Nagasawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) |
2020 AUTSE Young Scientist Awardee
| Dr. Yongseok Jeon (Korea Maritime & Ocean University, Korea) |
2018 AUTSE Young Scientist Awardee
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Dr. Li’s research on energy economics, supercritical CO2 power cycle, energy storage, and microalgae carbon sequestration has brought impressive results that will contribute significantly to advancement of energy systems from basic research to applications. |
| Dr. Mingjia LI (Lecturer, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China) |
2018 AUTSE Young Scientist Awardee
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Prof. Chen’s research on microchannel flow dynamics and heat transfer of near-critical fluid brought impressive results that will contribute significantly to the heat transfer and energy conversion societies. Prof. Chen’s research has also broadened our understanding of the high-pressure multi-scale heat transfer for utilizing oceanic methane hydrate. |
| Dr. Lin CHEN (Ass. Professor, Tohoku University, Japan) |
2018 AUTSE Young Scientist Awardee
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Prof. Kim’s research on heat and mass transfer in PEM Fuel Cells and organic Rankine cycles (ORC) brought impressive results that will contribute significantly to improve performance of energy conversion systems including PEMFC and ORC. |
| Dr. Dong Kyu KIM (Ass. Professor, Chung-Ang University) |
2017 AUTSE Young Scientist Awardee
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The Executive Committee of AUTSE has decided that Professor Li Chen of Xi’an Jiaotong University shall be awarded the first Young Scientist Award for his accomplishments in thermal sciences and engineering. The committee valued his work on the physicochemical mechanisms of multiscale thermal processes in porous media which have applications in many fields. His experimental and numerical investigations of these complex processes have led to new multi-scale models for these complex, coupled micro-macro scale flow and thermal transport phenomena. The award ceremony will be given during the 1st Asian Conference on Thermal Sciences (ACTS), which is going to be held in Jeju, Korea in March 2017. The details can be found in the webpage of ACTS, http://acts2017.org. |
| Professor Li Chen (Xi’an Jiaotong University, China) |
2017 AUTSE Young Scientist Awardee
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The Executive Committee of AUTSE has decided that Professor Haidong Wang of Kyushu University shall be awarded the first Young Scientist Award for his accomplishments in thermal sciences and engineering. The committee valued his work on the thermophysical properties of low-dimensional materials and nano-manufacturing techniques. His contribution has led to breakthroughs that will impact the development and use of nano-sensors. His research has also advanced our understanding of micro/nanoscale heat transfer phenomena. The award ceremony will be given during the 1st Asian Conference on Thermal Sciences (ACTS), which is going to be held in Jeju, Korea in March 2017. The details can be found in the webpage of ACTS http://acts2017.org. |
| Professor Haidong Wang (Kyushu University, Japan) |
