Deyu Li is an associate professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt. He received his B.E. in Engineering Thermophysics from the University of Science and Technology of China (1992), M.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Tsinghua University, China (1997) and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley (2002), respectively. He worked as a post-doctoral research associate at UC Berkeley in 2003. He joined the faculty of Vanderbilt Mechanical Engineering as an assistant professor in January, 2004. In fall 2010, he got promoted to be an associate professor.

Dr. Li's research interest includes Micro/Nano scale energy and molecular transport phenomena, Micro/Nanofabrication techniques, Molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulation, and Micro/Nanofluidics. He has 46 refereed journal publications in well-respected journals such as Nature Nanotechnology, Nano Letters, Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters, Small, Lab-on-a-chip, Analytical Chemistry, and Journal of Heat Transfer. His journal publications have been cited for more than 2400 times, with 9 publications each cited over 100 times. He is recipient of National Science Foundation Career Award in 2007.

In 2005 Virginia Pensabene got her Laurea degree (equivalent to B.S. + M.S.) in Biomedical Electronic Engineering from the University of Pisa (Italy) and then got her Ph.D. in Humanoid Technologies from Università di Genova, Genova, Italy in 2009. After graduation, she worked as a PostDoc at the Center for MicroBiorobotics of the Italian Institute of Technology from 2009 to 2011. On August 2011, she camed to Vanderbilt as a Post Doctoral Research Associate. Her research interests cover ultrathin films, micro and nano fabrication.

Came from School of Mechanical Engineering at Southeast University, China, Min Chen studied in MNTFL at Vanderbilt as a visiting student from Septermber, 2008 to September, 2010. His research interest includes nano- scale electrokinetic phenomena; micro- and nano- scale phase change phenomena; parallel molecular dynamics simulation methods. In his spare time, he likes playing soccer.

Jiashu Sun received her B.S. degree in materials science from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2006. She joined MNTFL at Vanderbilt as a Ph.D. student in fall 2006 and graduated with a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering in December 2010. Her research field is microfluidics with projects such as characterization of electric current leakage through thin PDMS structures and development of novel resistive pulse-sensing techniques to measure cell-volume growth rate and characterize cell separation performance. Jiashu is now working at National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China.

Yanyan Ge

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Juekuan Yang

yangjk@seu.edu.cn

Juekuan Yang received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Southeast University (2004), China. He worked at MNTFL as a postdoc research associate from March 2008 to October 2011. His research activity at MNTFL included contact thermal resistance measurement between individual nanostructures, and thermoelectric properties investigation of Boron-based one-dimensional nanostructures. He is currently an associate professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at Southeast University, China.