Principal Investigator
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Ming-Chang Lu, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University
Professor Ming-Chang Lu received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2010. He served on the faculty of National Chiao Tung University from 2010 to 2019 before joining the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Taiwan University in August 2019, where he is currently a Professor. Prof. Lu was elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in 2025, Fellow of the Asian Union of Thermal Science and Engineering (AUTSE) in 2023, and Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM) in 2022. He also served as Chair of the Taiwan Heat and Mass Transfer Society from 2020 to 2022. His honors include the Distinguished Young Scholar Award from the Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, R.O.C., and the Ta-You Wu Memorial Award from Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology, both received in 2015. Prof. Lu’s research focuses on micro/nanoscale heat transfer and phase-change heat transfer, with major applications in electronics cooling.
Office: Mechanical Engineering Building, Room 616
Telephone: +886-2-3366-2729
Email: mingchanglu@ntu.edu.tw
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Saumyadwip Bandyopadhyay
Dr. Saumyadwip Bandyopadhyay has done his bachelor from Institution from Engineers (India). He received his Associate Membership of Institution of Engineers, India (AMIE)) in Mechanical engineering in the year 2011. Dr. Saumyadwip Bandyopadhyay received his M.Tech. degree from Mechanical Engineering Department, of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur under the guidance of Prof. Suman Chakraborty in the year 2014. He also did his PhD from the same institute under the joint supervision of Prof. Suman Chakraborty and Prof. Rabibrata Mukherjee. He got his PhD from the Advanced Technology Development Center of IIT Kharagpur in the year 2022. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow working on Pool boiling and Flow boiling phenomenon, with a focus on enhancing the heat transfer phenomenon using structured and chemically treated metallic surfaces.
Dr. Inbaoli A
Dr. Inbaoli A obtained his PhD from Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut in the year 2025. His doctoral research focused on enhanced immersion cooling for high-energy-density systems. Presently, he is the postdoctoral fellow working on the liquid-vapour phase change heat transfer and Hydrogen Evolution Reaction.
Ph.D. Students
Kuang-Yu Chen 陳光宇
Kuang-Yu graduated from department of Mechanical Engineering at National Central University. His now a Ph.D student focusing on examining the thermal conductivity of polymer nanofibers, including amorphous PVDF nanofibers, nylon-6 nanofibers, and others.
Hung-Chih Chen 陳宏志
Hung-Chih graduated from department of Mechatronic Engineering at National Taiwan Normal University. His research focuses on Micro/Nano structures for cooling performance.
M.S. Students
Hsiang-Wei Chiu 邱祥瑋
Siang-Wei graduated from department of Chemistry at Soochow University. His research focuses on thermal conductivity of polymer nanowire under low temperature annealing condition.
Ying-Jie Gao 高英傑
Ying-Jie graduated from Department of Energy and Refrigeration Air-Conditoning Engineering at National Taipei University of Technology. His research focuses on Leidonfrost effect of refrigerant droplets on heated microstructure surfaces.
Tzu-Jui Cho 卓子睿
Zih-Ruei graduated from department of Mechanical Engineering at National Taiwan University. His research focuses on heat transfer of condensates on two-tier structured surfaces.
Yu-Cheng Chang 張育誠
Yu-Cheng graduated from department of Bio-Industrial Mechatronics Engineering at National Chung Hsing University. His research focuses on heat transfer of pool boiling for copper pillars.
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Song-Lin Tsai 蔡松霖
Song-Lin graduated from department of Mechanical Engineering at Chung Yuan Christian University. His research focuses on heat transfer of flow boiling for microstructures.
Cheng-En Li 李承恩
Cheng-En graduated from department of Mechanical Engineering at National Taipei University of Technology. His research focuses on thermal conductivity of ferromagnetic nanowires under different magnetic fields.
Shu-Jhe Yang 楊書哲
Shu-Jhe graduated from department of Mechanical Engineering at Chung Yuan Christian University. His research focuses on enhancement of critical heat flux by means of micro- and nano-structure on copper surface.
Pin-Yu Huang 黃品瑜
Pin-Yu is graduated from the department of mechanical engineering at Yang-Ming Chiao-Tung University, whose current research focuses on the heat transfer of ice slurry in the shell-tube heat exchanger
Ting-You Liu 劉亭佑
Ting-You graduated from the Department of Aerospace and Systems Engineering at Feng Chia University. Her research focuses on PIV-based observation of bubble dynamics and fluid motion on copper samples to investigate the mechanisms of heat transfer in pool boiling.
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Ci Zeng 曾琦
Ci-Zeng graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Chung Yuan Christian University. His research focuses on heat transfer in pool boiling for electrowetting-on-dielectric.
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Wei-Quan Su 蘇威全
Wei-Quan graduated from department of Mechanical Engineering at Yuan Ze University. His research focuses on Electronics cooling using the reduced diamond film for beat spreading.
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Kai-Hsu Hsieh 謝鎧旭
Kai-Hsu graduated from department of Chemistry at National Tsing Hua University. His research focuses on thermal conductivity of polymer nanofiber.
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Ming-Chen Chang 張銘宸
Ming-Chen graduated from department of Mechanical Engineering at National Cheng Kung University. His research focuses on heat transfer of flow boiling for microstructures.