Principal Investigator
Prof. Yogendra Joshi
John M. McKenney and Warren D. Shiver Distinguished Chair in Building Mechanical Systems
Contact Information:
Love Manufacturing Building, Room 338
Email: yogendra.joshi@me.gatech.edu
T: 404.385.2810
F: 404.894.8496
Research Areas: Heat Transfer, Combustion, and Energy Systems and Micro and Nano Engineering; Thermofluid issues in emerging technologies and microthermal systems
Background
Prior to joining the Georgia Tech faculty in 2001 as a Professor, Dr. Joshi held academic positions at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. He also worked in the semiconductor assembly industry on process thermal model development. He was named to the McKenney/Shiver Chair in 2004.
Research Engineers
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lorenzini@gatech.edu | Resume/CV | Research Daniel Lorenzini received his BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Guanajuato, Mexico (Summa Cum Laude Honors). He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2019. He has been a research intern at the University of Texas at Dallas and Rochester Institute of Technology. His interests include applied research, product thermal/structural design, simulation, manufacturing, testing, and optimization. Experienced in the analysis and design of cooling solutions (single-phase and phase-change), with a focus on microfluidic systems for thermal management of high-power electronics. |
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Name: Yunhyeok Im E-mail: yunhyeok.im@gatech.edu Role: Research Faculty, since March 2023 Background: Yunhyeok Im joined Georgia Tech as a research faculty in Mechanical Engineering in 2023. As a member of CHIMES (Center for Heterogeneous Integration of Micro Electronic Systems) in the JUMP 2.0 program, he is developing liquid cooling technology for 2.5D and 3D systems. Before joining Georgia Tech, he had been with Samsung Electronics for 23 years. As a principal engineer, he impacted advanced thermal design decisions for SOC, ASIC, and Memory products in the early design stage. He published 29 technical papers and 54 United States (US) patents in Samsung. He earned his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from KAIST. His current research interests include the thermal architecture of advanced packages, fabrication of nanostructures for liquid cooling, finding new materials for enhanced heat transfer, and developing efficient simulation methodology. Resume and Google Citation link/LinkedIn https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=y9nziP4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao |
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Name: Ubade Kemerli E-mail: ubade.kemerli@me.gatech.edu Role: Postdoctoral Researcher since August 2021 Background: Dr. Kemerli’s research focuses on periodic cellular metals and metal foams’ fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics. He has received a Ph.D. and Master of Science and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Trakya University, Türkiye. His research interests are convective heat transfer, electronics cooling, and molecular dynamics simulations. Resume and Google Citation link/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ubade-kemerli-a263a376/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=04XQksQAAAAJ&hl=tr&oi=ao |
Doctoral Students
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Name: Ahmet Mete Muslu E-mail: metemuslu@gatech.edu Role: Ph.D. Student Since January 2020 Background: Ahmet Mete Muslu’s research mainly focuses on integrated thermal management in SiC-based drive inverters for next-gen electric vehicles. Mete has received a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering in January 2020 and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering in June 2018 from Ozyegin University, Turkey. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. Resume and Google Citation link/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mete-muslu-b63541a0/ https://scholar.google.com.tr/citations?user=2j45TKIAAAAJ&hl=tr |
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Name: Ammar Osman
E-mail: aosman30@gatech.edu
Role: Graduate Research Assistant since Fall 2019 Background: Ammar received his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Menoufia University in Egypt. He was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship to continue his graduate studies at Georgia Tech in 2019. He completed his Master’s degree in Spring 2021 and then started his Ph.D. in Fall 2021. The focus of his Master’s was the study of single-phase jet impingement for the cooling of high-heat-flux power electronics. During his Ph.D., he will focus on understanding two-phase boiling at different length scales through experimental and numerical studies. LinkedIn:
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Name: Srinivas Shashank Mantha E-mail: smantha31@gatech.edu Role: Graduate Research Assistant Background: Srinivas received his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, India, in 2020. He completed his Master’s degree from the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, in the spring of 2023. His focus in his Master’s was on understanding the effect of the contact angle hysteresis on pool boiling critical heat flux. He had worked on pool boiling visualization, surface design and fabrication techniques. He joined METTL as a Ph.D. student during the fall of 2023, and his current focus is to study flow boiling in enhanced microgaps through experimental and numerical studies. |
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Name: Myriam Bouzidi E-mail: mbouzidi3@gatech.edu Role: Graduate Research Assistant Background: Myriam received a combined B.Sc./M.Sc. degree in General Engineering from Arts et Métiers, Bordeaux, France and a MS in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA in 2023. She is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical engineering with the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, with a focus on thermal management in the Microelectronics and Emerging Technologies Thermal Lab. She is currently working on Flexible, Multi-Functional Thermal Management System and Electro-Thermal Modeling for Ultra-Compact High Power Density Systems (Task I.4) as part of CHIMES. Her research interests include thermal management in microelectronics, two-phase cooling, flexible cooling structures, product thermal/structural design, multiphysics modeling and simulation, manufacturing, testing, and optimization. |
MS Students
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Name: Akshith Narayanan E-mail: anarayanan40@gatech.edu Role: Graduate Research Assistant Background: Akshith is a graduate student pursuing a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. He started studying at Georgia Tech in August 2021 after completing a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at Manipal Institute of Technology, India. Research topics and involved projects: Akshith is working on development of a full-fledged solution for thermal management of electric vehicle inverters in collaboration with DOE and NREL. Resume and Linkedin: |
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Name: Michael Ayers
E-mail: mayers33@gatech.edu Role: Graduate Research Assistant Background: Michael is a graduate student pursing a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, starting in the fall of 2021. He received his Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2015. After graduating he worked in the nuclear power industry, where he performed safety analyses and penned regulatory compliance reports. He then worked in a research and development lab in defense, where he primarily focused on the design and manufacture of test equipment. Research topics and involved projects: Michael is currently working on developing correlations for gasket sealing effectiveness for low ambient pressure compartments of electronics packages. Resume and LinkedIn: |
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Name: Samuel Glowacki E-mail: sglowacki3@gatech.edu Role: Graduate Research Assistant Background: Samuel is a graduate student currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, commencing his studies in the autumn of 2022. In the fall of 2023, he became a member of the METTL at Georgia Tech, undertaking an exchange program from Arts et Métiers, a distinguished French engineering school. Samuel holds both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Engineering from Arts et Métiers, awarded in 2021 and 2023, respectively. Research projects and involved topics : His research focus involves the thermal modeling of pressurized enclosures, with a particular emphasis on their analysis through the application of Machine Learning (ML) techniques. |
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Name: Junyoung Kim E-mail:jkim3786@gatech.edu Role Graduate Research Assistant Background: Junyoung is a graduate student pursuing master’s degree in mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech from 2024 Spring. He finished his bachelor’s from Georgia Tech in 2023 Fall. He has been part of the Microelectronics and Emerging Technologies Thermal Lab since Fall 2023. Research Interest : Junyoung is passionate about advancing thermal management in microelectronics with particular emphasize on two phase cooling systems. His work focuses on the thermal architecture of advanced electronics packages. He is currently working on Flexible, Multiple-Functional Thermal Management and Electro-Thermal Modeling for Ultra-Compact High Power Density Systems- Chimes project. He is also working on the design of Battery Thermal Management System for Electric Vehicle with 2-phase flow and wicking structures. |
Outdoor activities
Thanksgiving lunch of 2023
Spring term lunch of 2022
Christmas lunch of 2019
Alumni
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Amol Paranjape – M.S. – Summer 2023 Shuv Dey – Ph.D. – Spring 2023 Justin Broughton – Ph.D. – Fall 2022 Ryan Reinhold Smith – M.S. – Spring 2022 Lydia Mele – M.S. – Summer 2021 Sebastien Sequeira – M.S. – Spring 2021 Dhaval Patel – M.S. – Spring 2021 Nikhil Damle – M.S. Jeho Kim – M.S. Tomás Moreno – Research Intern, 2019 Xuefei Han – Ph.D. – Fall 2016 Daniel Gaddes – M.S. – Summer 2016 Rehan Khalid – M.S. – Summer 2016 Seungho Mok – M.S. – Summer 2016 Zhimin Wan – Ph.D. – Spring 2016 Thomas Sherer II – M.S. – Spring 2015 Yunji Gu – M.S. – Spring 2015 Ashish Sinha – Ph.D. Ethan Cruz – Ph.D Banafsheh Barabadi – Ph.D. Aravind Sathyanarayana – Ph.D. Rhajat Ghosh – Ph.D. Andrew McNamara – Ph.D. Steven Isaacs – M.S. Ludovic Burton – M.S. Carter Dietz – M.S. Daniel Gempesaw – Ph.D. Craig Green – Ph.D. Reza Khiabani – Ph.D. Shankar Narayanan – Ph.D Vivek Sahu – Ph.D Joshua Sharp – M.S. Jason Liang Gong – Visiting Scholar – Spring 2010 Krishna Kota– Postdoctoral Fellow – Summer 2010 Yunhyeok Im – Visiting Scholar – Fall 2009 Qihong Nie – Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering – Fall 2008 Ankit Somani – M.S. in Mechanical Engineering – Fall 2008 Shawn Shields – M.S. in Mechanical Engineering – Fall 2008 Richard Renqiang Xiong – Postdoctoral Fellow – Spring 2008 Graham Nelson – M.S. in Mechanical Engineering – Summer 2007 Adam Whelan – M.S. in Mechanical Engineering – Summer 2007 David Gerlach – Postdoctoral Fellow – Summer 2007 Lee Coggins – M.S. in Mechanical Engineering – Spring 2007 Camil Ghiu – Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering – Spring 2007 Aniruddha Pal – Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering – Spring 2007 Prajesh Bhattacharya – Postdoctoral Fellow – Fall 2006 Jeff Rambo – Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering – Spring 2006 Siva Gurrum – Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering – Fall 2005 Nathan Rolander – M.S. in Mechanical Engineering – Fall 2005 Robert Wadell – M.S. in Mechanical Engineering – Summer 2005 Xiaojin Wei – Postdoctoral Fellow – Summer 2005 Scott Wilson – M.S. in Mechanical Engineering – Spring 2005 Cherif Ould Lahoucine – Postdoctoral Fellow – Fall 2004 Stephane Launay – Postdoctoral Fellow – Fall 2004 Qinghua Wang – Postdoctoral Fellow – Fall 2004 Juan Carlos Jakaboski – M.S. in Mechanical Engineering – Summer 2004 Blake Jakaboski – M.S. in Mechanical Engineering – Summer 2004 Jason Cook – M.S. in Mechanical Engineering – Summer 2004 Adya Ali – M.S. in Mechanical Engineering – Summer 2004 Sunil Murthy – Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering – Fall 2003 Przemyslaw Robert Kaczorowski – M.S. in Mechanical Engineering – Fall 2002 Dong Won Yoo – M.S. in Mechanical Engineering – Summer 2001 Lang Yuan – M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2001 Srikaran Kalahasti – M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2000 Deepak Gopinath – M.S. in Mechanical Engineering – Fall 2000 Chandrashekhar (Shekhar) Ramaswamy – Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering – Fall 1999 Lan Tang – Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering – Fall 1998 Vance Adams – Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering – Spring 1998 Enchao Yu – Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering – Fall 1996 Debabrata Pal – Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering – Spring 1996 Vikram Sheshadri – M.S. in Mechanical Engineering – Spring 1996 |