By Li Han
Staff Writer of the Tsinghua News Center
Tsinghua University recently announced the recruitment of three outstanding faculty in the sciences and engineering.The new appointees are Professor Wang Yayu in the Department of Physics, Professor Zhang Hui in the Department of Engineering Physics, and Professor Ren Jing in the Department of Thermal Engineering.
(Professor Wang Yayu)
Wang Yayu obtained his B.S. degree in physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1998 and his Ph.D. degree in physics from Princeton University in 2004. For the next three years he was a Miller Research Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. He joined the Department of Physics at Tsinghua as a full professor in December of 2007 after a brief visiting fellowship at MIT. Professor Wang’s main research interest is in experimental investigations into the exotic behavior of electrons in low dimensional materials with strong electron correlations as exemplified by copper-oxide high temperature superconductors. He has published 27 articles in a variety of scientific journals including Nature, Science, PNAS, Nature Materials, Nature Physics, and Physical Review Letters. His papers have been cited over 1500 times. His work has been recognized with the prestigious William L. McMillan Award in 2006 for Outstanding Contributions in Condensed Matter Physics. He was also honored in 2006 as a Changjiang Professor.
(Professor Zhang Hui)
Dr. Zhang Hui received his BS and MS degrees in engineering thermophysics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1986 and 1989. He received his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Polytechnic University, USA. He was a tenured Associate Professor (2002-2007) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the Director of the Process Modeling Laboratory before he was appointed Professor in the Center for Public Safety Research at Tsinghua University in 2007. Zhang Hui 's primary research lies in the area of thermal/fluid science, crystal growth, public safety, and energy systems. Based on adaptive grid generation schemes, front tracking, level sets, and meshless particle methods, he has developed several high-fidelity models for crystal growth, plasma coating, and disaster simulation. He was credited with the design for a crystal growth furnace to produce the world largest silicon tube for photovoltaic application. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (USA) in 1999 and the Yangzi Scholar Award (China) in 2007. Dr. Zhang has published 7 book chapters, 91 journal articles and 110 refereed conference papers. He is a reviewer for over 30 journals and 6 government agencies. He is a member of the American Society for Mechanical Engineering, the American Association for Crystal Growth, ASM International, the Materials Research Society, and the Thermal Spray Society.
(Professor Ren Jing)
Ren Jing received her Bachelor degree from the Beijing Agricultural and Engineering University in 1992. She got her doctoral degree from the China Agriculture University in 1997. From 1997 to 1999, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tsinghua University. From 1999 to 2008, she worked at RWTH Aachen University in Germany and successively served as Project Manager and Group Leader at Aachen's Gas and Steam Turbine Institute. Since March 2008, she has been a Professor in Tsinghua's Department of Thermal Engineering. She has been engaged in 18 energy related research and industrial projects. Her research focuses mainly on advanced cooling technology in gas turbines. The fruits of her research have been incorporated into new gas turbine products. In addition, Professor Ren has developed sophisticated numerical methods for modeling internal air cooling systems which accurately reveal complex flow patterns, an outstanding contribution in this area. She developed also a heterogeneous nucleation model for condensation in steam turbine engines and proposed a new method for improving machine anti-erosion performance. In these areas, she has been a pioneer. Professor Ren has published nearly 50 papers on energy topics. She has given several seminars at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the University of Karlsruhle inGermany. As a sponsor, she has organized several international symposia and workshops.
