Awards & Talks

Research awards

Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award (2025)

An international foundation award for outstanding doctoral research in the sciences, engineering, and medicine. Recipients come from a small set of partner research universities, and only about 20 awards are given worldwide each year. Awarded for my research in physics and AI. Details

Graduate Student Gold Award, Materials Research Society (2025)

The highest recognition the Materials Research Society gives to graduate students, awarded at the 2025 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit based on research quality and significance, published record, and presentation. I also served as a session chair of Symposium SF01: Thermal Transport in Materials. Details

Magoon Research Excellence Award, Purdue University College of Engineering (2025)

For outstanding research performance during the Ph.D.; limited to four students per year across the College of Engineering. Details

Warren and Judy Stevenson Scholarship, Purdue School of Mechanical Engineering (2024)

Awarded to a small number of graduate students each year for outstanding research in applied optics. Details

Outstanding Presentation Awards (×2), ASME IMECE (2024)

Two awards at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, for talks in the sessions Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science for Thermal Processes, Heat Transfer and Energy Systems and Radiation Across Scales. Details

Best Presentation Award, ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference (2023)

Awarded for the best presentation in the session at the ASME 2023 Heat Transfer Summer Conference. Details

Fellowships and honor societies

Systems Collaboratory Fellowship, Purdue College of Engineering (2024)

A competitive fellowship supporting interdisciplinary research at the intersection of scientific computing and machine learning. Details

Member, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society (2024)

Invitation-only membership for the top 10% of seniors and graduate students across all disciplines. Details

Ross Fellowship, Purdue Graduate School (2021)

Purdue’s most prestigious graduate fellowship, awarded to incoming doctoral students with exceptional academic and research records.

Undergraduate honors (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China (2018, 2019, 2020)

The highest-level academic award for students in China, given to roughly the top 1% nationwide. Received three years in a row.

Exemplary Merit Student Award (2019)

HUST’s highest honor for undergraduate students.

Invited talks

• Integrating AI, High-Performance Computing (HPC), and Multiscale Physics for Solving Energy Transport Problems. Guest speaker, SYS 350: Systems Methods, Purdue University. Details
• Advancing Scientific Computing for Energy Transport: Accelerating Phonon Scattering Simulation through System Thinking. Invited speaker, Purdue System Thinkers Research Colloquium, Sep. 2024.

Conference presentations

2025

• Multiscale Multiphysics Simulation of hBN Thermal and Radiative Properties. Oral, MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit, Mar. 2025.
• ML-accelerated Phonon Scattering Simulation for Energy Transport: Methods and Applications. Poster, MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit, Mar. 2025.

2024

• ML-assisted Acceleration of Phonon Scattering Simulation: Methods and Applications. Oral, ASME IMECE, Nov. 2024.
• Inverse Design of Colored Radiative Cooling Paint. Oral, ASME IMECE, Nov. 2024.
• ML-accelerated Phonon Scattering Simulation for Energy Transport: Methods and Applications. Poster, RCAC Cyberinfrastructure Symposium, Oct. 2024.
• Machine Learning-assisted Phonon Scattering Simulation for Energy Transport: Methods and Applications. Poster, Hawkins Memorial Lecture Series, Sep. 2024.

2023

• Accelerated Prediction of Thermal and Mid-IR Optical Properties Through Maximum Likelihood Approximation of Phonon Scattering Rates. Oral, ASME Heat Transfer Summer Conference (SHTC), Jul. 2023.
• Fast and Accurate Machine Learning Prediction of Phonon Scattering Rates and Lattice Thermal Conductivity. Oral, ASME Heat Transfer Summer Conference (SHTC), Jul. 2023.