Professional Service

  • Nano Letters. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript and revision. 11/2023 - 01/2024
  • Scientific Reports. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 09/2023 - 10/2023
  • Optics Letters. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 08/2023 - 09/2023
  • Measurement. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript and revision. 08/2023 - 09/2023
  • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript and revision. 08/2023 - 09/2023
  • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 05/2023 - 06/2023
  • DoE Basic Energy Sciences. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed one proposal. 05/2023 - 05/2023
  • Solar Energy Materials and Solar Energy. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 04/2023 - 05/2023
  • Applied Thermal Engineering. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 03/2023 - 04/2023
  • The 14th World Conference on Thermophotovoltaic Generation of Electricity (TPV-14). Role: Program Committee. Reviewed 5 extended abstracts. 03/2023 - 03/2023
  • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 01/2023 - 02/2023
  • NSF Thermal Transport Processes. Role: Review panel. Reviewed 6 proposals. 01/2023 - 02/2023
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program 2022. Role: Review Panel. Reviewed 14 fellowship applications in Mechanical Engineering II. 11/2021 - 01/2022
  • The 13th World Conference on Thermophotovoltaic Generation of Electricity (TPV-13). Role: Program Committee. Served as a member of the Program Committee. 09/2021 - 04/2022
  • Materials Today Physics. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 07/2021 - 07/2021
  • Review of Scientific Instruments. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 01/2021 - 01/2021
  • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 08/2020 - 08/2020
  • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 08/2020 - 08/2020
  • Applied Thermal Engineering. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 03/2020 - 03/2020
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program 2020. Role: Review Panel. Reviewed 17 fellowship applications packets in Physics II . 11/2019 - 01/2020
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) . Role: External Reviewer. Reviewed a proposal. 11/2019 - 01/2020
  • ACS Applied Nano Materials. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 10/2019 - 11/2019
  • Scientific Reports. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 10/2019 - 10/2019
  • Journal of Heat Transfer. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 09/2019 - 10/2019
  • The 4th International Workshop on Nano-Micro Thermal Radiation (NanoRad 2020). Role: International Science Committee. Served a member of the international scientific committee. 08/2019 - 06/2020
  • Small. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 07/2019 - 07/2019
  • Europe Materials Research Society (E-MRS) . Role: Scientific Committee. Served the Scientific Committee for Symposium B (Advances in thermophotovoltaics: materials, devices and systems) in 2020 Spring Europe Materials Research Society (E-MRS) Meeting. 05/2019 - 05/2020
  • French National Research Agency. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a proposal. 04/2019 - 05/2019
  • ASME IMECE Conference. Role: Topic Co-organizer. Co-organized a topic (Spatially resolved thermophysical property measurements (9-15 K7-1)). 03/2019 - 11/2019
  • Nature Communications. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 03/2019 - 07/2019
  • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 03/2019 - 04/2019
  • Journal of Heat Transfer. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 03/2019 - 04/2019
  • Applied Physics Letters. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript (including revision). 03/2019 - 04/2019
  • Physica Status Solidi A: Applications and Materials Science. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript (including revision). 02/2019 - 06/2019
  • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript (including revision). 02/2019 - 04/2019
  • DoE Technology Commercialization Fund . Role: Reviewer. Reviewed one proposal . 02/2019 - 04/2019
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program 2019. Role: Review Panel. Reviewed 12 fellowship applications packets (Mechanical Engineering). 02/2019 - 03/2019
  • Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA). Role: Symposium co-organizer. Organized a Mechanical, Aerospace and Naval Engineering (MAN) symposium in US-Korea Conference on Science and Technology (UKC) 2018. 01/2019 - 08/2019
  • Applied Optics. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 12/2018 - 01/2019
  • Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA). Role: Co-organizer. Organized the Scientists and Engineers Early Career Development (SEED) 2018 Workshop. 10/2018 - 12/2018
  • Journal of Photonics for Energy. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 10/2018 - 10/2018
  • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 09/2018 - 09/2018
  • Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 09/2018 - 09/2018
  • Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA). Role: President. Utah Local Chapter. 08/2018 - 07/2020
  • International Journal of Thermal Sciences. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 08/2018 - 08/2018
  • Journal of Applied Physics. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 04/2018 - 04/2018
  • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 03/2018 - 03/2018
  • Journal of Heat Transfer. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 03/2018 - 03/2018
  • Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA). Role: Symposium co-organizer. Organized a Mechanical, Aerospace and Naval Engineering (MAN) symposium in US-Korea Conference on Science and Technology (UKC) 2018. 01/2018 - 08/2018
  • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 01/2018 - 01/2018
  • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 01/2018 - 01/2018
  • National Science Foundation. Role: Review panel. Served a review panel for Thermal Transport Processes. 12/2017 - 01/2018
  • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 11/2017 - 11/2017
  • Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a journal. 11/2017 - 11/2017
  • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 09/2017 - 09/2017
  • Optics Express. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 08/2017 - 08/2017
  • IEEE Transactions of Nanotechnology. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 07/2017 - 07/2017
  • Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 07/2017 - 07/2017
  • Energy Conservation and Management. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 07/2017 - 07/2017
  • Journal of Applied Physics. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 05/2017 - 05/2017
  • Journal of Mechanics. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 05/2017 - 05/2017
  • Journal of Applied Physics. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 03/2017 - 03/2017
  • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 03/2017 - 03/2017
  • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a manuscript. 02/2017 - 02/2017
  • Analytical Chemistry. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a journal manuscript. 11/2016 - 12/2016
  • Nanoscale and Microscope Thermophysical Engineering. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed a journal manuscript. 07/2016 - 08/2016
  • ASME. Role: Session Organizer. Nanoscale Thermal Metrology Session, ASME IMECE 2013, San Diego, CA, November 2013. 11/2013 - 11/2013

Honors & Awards

  • Oversea Research Fellowship awarded. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), 01/2020
  • Top 15% Instructor Recognition in Spring 2018. College of Engineering, University of Utah, 06/2018

Internal Service

  • RPT Subcommittee (Tianli Feng). Chair, 12/2022 - present. Department service.
  • Faculty Search Committee of Aerospace. Member, 12/2022 - 03/2023. Department service.
  • Seminar Committee. Chair, 08/2022 - present. Department service.
  • Data Committee. Member, 08/2022 - present. Department service.
  • RPT Subcommittee (Amir Arzani). Member, 07/2022 - 09/2023. Department service.
  • Conflict of Interest Committee. Member, 01/2022 - present. University service.
  • RPT Subcommittee (Haohan Zhang). Member, 08/2021 - present. Department service.
  • Curriculum Committee. Member, 08/2019 - 07/2020. Department service.
  • Seminar Committee. Chair, 09/2018 - 12/2020. Department service.
  • RPT Subcommittee (Roseanne Warren). Member, 09/2018 - 12/2020. Department service.
  • RPT Subcommittee (Sameer Rao). Member, 09/2018 - 12/2020. Department service.
  • Conflict of Interest Committee. Member, 09/2018 - 12/2020. University service.
  • RPT Subcommittee (Steven Naleway). Member, 08/2018 - 12/2020. Department service.
  • Served a faculty search committee in the Thermal Sciences position. Search committee member, 12/2017 - 03/2018. Department service.

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