Seungha Shin

Biography

2020-Present
Associate Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Tennessee

2014-2020
Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Tennessee

2013-2014
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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Education

• PhD (ME), 2013, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• MS (ME), 2008, Seoul National University
• BS (ME), 2003, Seoul National University

Research

• Fundamentals and innovative applications of energy transport and conversion (Heat transfer physics) – Multiscale, multiphysics simulations (ab initio, molecular dynamics, and meso or Boltzmann).
• Thermal energy transport and conversion in nonequilibrium, heterostructures (interfaces, molecular junctions), graphene, and energy conversion devices.

Professional Service

• Member, ASME and MRS
• Member, The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, University of Michigan, 2010-2013
• Journal and conference proceeding reviewer for  Physical Review B (APS), AIP Advances (AIP), Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering (Taylor & Francis), Heat Transfer 2013, IMECE 2014 (ASME)

Publications

• S. Shin, C. Melnick, and M. Kaviany, “Phonon recycling”, JSME Mechanical Engineering Reviews, 1, TEP0002-1-10, (2014).
• S. Shin and M. Kaviany, “Entropy production in hot-phonon energy conversion to electric potential”, Journal of Applied Physics, 114, 083710-1-9 (2013).
• S. Shin, C. Melnick, and M. Kaviany, “Heterobarrier for converting hot-phonon energy to electric potential”, Physical Review B, 87, 075317-1-6 (2013).
• S. Shin and M. Kaviany, “Interflake thermal conductance of edge-passivated graphene”, Physical Review B, 84, 235433-1-8(2011).
• N. Sergueev, S. Shin, M. Kaviany, and B. Dunietz, “Efficiency of thermoelectric energy conversion in biphenyl-dithiol junctions: effect of electron-phonon interactions”, Physical Review B, 83, 195415-1-12, (2011).
• S. Shin, and M. Kaviany, T. Desai and R. Bonner, “Roles of atomic restructuring in interfacial phonon transport”, Physical Review B, 82, 081302-1-4 (2010).
• S. Shin, and M. Kaviany, “Enhanced laser cooling of CO₂-Xe gas using (02⁰0) excitation”, Journal of Applied Physics, 106, 124910-1-6 (2009).