TIANLI (ANDY) FENG

Adjunct Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering

  • Adjunct Associate Professor
    Mechanical Engineering
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor
    Electrical & Computer Engineering

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Our research is to push the frontiers of thermal energy transport, conversion, and storage in complex systems to extremes. Specifically, we are interested in fundamental problems in solid materials and heterostructures at extreme conductions with extreme thermal transport properties. We aim to solve the long-standing thermal challenges in ultrahigh temperature thermal protection, thermal management of electronic devices, and thermal insulations, etc.

GRANTS

  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    PLASMON-ENHANCED RADIOISOTOPE THERMOPHOTOVOLTAIC (PRTPV) POWER GENERATION FOR INTERSTELLAR MISSIONS
    1 Jun 2026 - 31 May 2027
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    SUB-CONTINUUM THERMAL TRANSPORT ACROSS BURIED AIR/VACUUM NANOGAPS AND PRISTINE INTERFACES
    12 Nov 2025 - 30 Sep 2026
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    MICROSTRUCTURE-BASED PREDICTIONS OF PLASMA-FACING MATERIAL PROPERTY DEGRADATION
    26 Nov 2024 - 30 Sep 2026
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    DEVELOPMENT OF MOISTURE-RESISTANT OXIDE THERMAL-DISSIPATING FILLERS WITH NITRIDE-BASED CERAMIC-LEVEL HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY FOR NEXT-GENERATION MOBILITY APPLICATIONS
    KOREA INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE1 Jul 2024 - 31 Dec 2025
    KOREA INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    CAREER: PREDICTION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THERMAL TRANSPORT ACROSS SUCCESSIVE INTERFACES
    1 Feb 2024 - 31 Jan 2029
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    BUILDING ENVELOPE AIR LEAKAGE DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATION BY A NOVEL TRANSIENT IR IMAGING METHOD
    2 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2026
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    PHONON TRANSPORT IN SUPERIOR HEAT CONDUCTORS UNDER IRRADIATION
    DOE BATTELLE ENERGY ALLIANCE, LLC6 Feb 2023 - 30 Sep 2025
    DOE BATTELLE ENERGY ALLIANCE, LLC
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    PREDICTION OF THERMAL TRANSPORT IN DIELECTRICS AND INSULATORS AT ULTRA-HIGH TEMPERATURES
    NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION1 Jun 2022 - 31 May 2026
    NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    PREDICTION OF THERMAL TRANSPORT IN DIELECTRICS AND INSULATORS AT ULTRA-HIGH TEMPERATURES
    NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION1 Jun 2022 - 31 May 2026
    NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    DEVELOP MULTISCALE SIMULATION AND MACHINE LEARNING MODELS TO PREDICT THE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF POROUS INSULATION MATERIALS
    4 May 2022 - 30 Sep 2026