Principal Investigator
Ming-Chang Lu (呂明璋), 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 the 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 the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Central University (NCU). He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at National Taiwan University (NTU). His research focuses on polymer and soft-material systems, including PEO, Nylon 6, PMIA, PCL, and liquid-crystalline materials, with an emphasis on the coupled relationship between molecular dynamics, static molecular structure, and thermal transport.
Office: Mechanical Engineering Building, Room 411
Telephone: +886-2-3366-1789
Email: f08522117@ntu.edu.tw
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Hung-Chih Chen 陳宏志
Hung-Chih graduated from the Department of Mechatronic Engineering at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU). He is currently a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at National Taiwan University (NTU). His research focuses on micro/nano-engineered surfaces and phase-change phenomena for advanced thermal management, which explores how engineered interfaces can control droplet dynamics, wetting, liquid spreading, vapor transport, and heat transfer.
M.S. Students
Hsiang-Wei Chiu 邱祥瑋
Hsiang-Wei graduated from the Department of Chemistry at Soochow University.
His research focuses on the thermal conductivity of polymer nanowire under low temperature annealing condition.
Ying-Chieh Kao 高英傑
Ying-Chieh graduated from the Department of Energy and Refrigeration Air-Conditoning Engineering at National Taipei University of Technology.
His research focuses on Leidonfrost effect of dielectric droplets on superheated micro/nano structure surfaces.
Tzu-Jui Cho 卓子睿
Tzu-Jui graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Taiwan University.
His research focuses on condensation heat transfer on 3D hybrid structure.
Yu-Cheng Chang 張育誠
Yu-Cheng graduated from the Department of Bio-Industrial Mechatronics Engineering at National Chung Hsing University.
His research focuses on heat transfer performance of pool boiling using EWOD.
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Sung-Lin Tsai 蔡松霖
Sung-Lin graduated from the 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 the 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 the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Chung Yuan Christian University.
His research focuses on the enhancement of critical heat flux by means of micro- and nano-structures on the copper surface.
Pin-Yu Huang 黃品瑜
Pin-Yu is graduated from the department of mechanical engineering at Yang-Ming Chiao-Tung University.
His 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 AI-predicted heat transfer performance of flow boiling.
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Wei-Cyuan Su 蘇威全
Wei-Cyuan graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Yuan Ze University.
His research focuses on diamond thin films for heat spreading.
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Kai-Hsu Hsieh 謝鎧旭
Kai-Hsu graduated from the Department of Chemistry at National Tsing Hua University.
His research focuses on the thermal conductivity of polymer nanofibers.
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Ming-Chen Chang 張銘宸
Ming-Chen graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Cheng Kung University.
His research focuses on heat transfer of flow boiling for microstructures.
Yun-Shing Tsai 蔡雲行
Yun-Shing graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Taiwan University.
His research focuses on reduced graphene oxide for heat spreading.
Hsin-Kai Wang 王信凱
Hsin-Kai graduated from the Department of Systems and Naval Mechatronic Engineering at National Cheng Kung University.
His research focuses on impingement/spray coolings on the structured surfaces.
Chao-Jih Ku 古朝日
Chao-Jih graduated from the 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.
You-Rong Lin 林佑融
You-Rong graduated from the Department of Mechanical and Computer-Aided Engineering at Feng Chia University.
His research focuses on enhancing hydrogen evolution reaction.
Yen-Chi Lu 呂彥棋
Yen-Chi graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Chung Hsing University.
His research focuses on heat transfer of flow boiling for microstructures.
Yu-Hsin Chen 陳伃新
Yu-Hsin graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Chung Hsing University.
Her research foucuses on condensation heat transfer on 3D hybrid surfaces.
Shao-Chien Shu 許少謙
Shao-Chien graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Cheng Kung University.
His research focuses on enhancement of critical heat flux by means of micro- and nano-structure on silicon surface.
Chih-I Yang 楊之逸
Chih-I graduated from the Department of Chemical Engineering at National Taiwan University.
His research focuses on heat transfer in magnetic nanowires.