T.E.A. Lab @ UCSB
Transport for Energy Applications
TEAM
Going-away lunch for Basamat at Freebirds
Tenure gift: a fig tree!
Undergrad research fair
Going-away lunch for Basamat at Freebirds
Bolin Liao
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UCSB
Bolin is originally from Sichuan, China. He received his Bachelor's degrees from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, in 2010. Then he moved to the US to study at MIT advised by Prof. Gang Chen, and earned his Ph.D. in 2016. After a one-year stay at Caltech as a Kavli Postdoc Fellow hosted by late Prof. Ahmed Zewail, Bolin started as an assistant professor at UCSB in July 2017 and was promoted to an associate professor in July 2023.
Email: bliao@ucsb.edu
Phone: 805-893-7251
Office: ESB 3231E
Fanghao Zhang
Postdoctoral Scholar, June 2022 - Present (co-advised with Prof. Yangying Zhu)
Fanghao obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Houston in 2022 under the supervision of Prof. Zhifeng Ren. While at UH, Fanghao worked on synthesizing amphiphilic Janus nanosheets for enhanced oil recovery and rational designs of efficient catalysts for seawater electrolysis using the strategy of surface modification. His current research topic at UCSB is the gas evolution and the thermal effect in the alkaline seawater electrolysis process and thermal properties measurements using PPMS.
Email: fzhang23@ucsb.edu
Runqing Yang
Graduate Student, Sep. 2019 - Present
Undergraduate Researcher, Feb. 2018 - Aug. 2019
Runqing received his BS in Physics from UCSB in 2019. He has been an undergraduate researcher in TEALab since his junior year and has recently started as a graduate student. His research interest is the theoretical study of phonon transport.
Email: runqingyang@ucsb.edu
Yujie Quan
Graduate Student, Sep. 2019 - Present
Yujie received her Bachelor's degree in Applied Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2019 and has been a member of the TEALab since then. She used to be an undergraduate researcher at the University of Texas, Austin in summer 2018 and her research focused on condensed matter theory. Her research interests include ab-initio study on thermal transport.
Email: yquan@ucsb.edu
Yubi Chen
Graduate Student, Jul. 2022 - Present
Yubi is a graduate student in the department of physics at UCSB. Yubi received her bachelor's degree in physics at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2018 and got a master's degree in physics at the University of Chicago in 2019. Before joining TEAlab in 2022, she focused on defects in semiconductors for quantum applications. Her current research interests include the thermal properties of topological materials, the thermal transport of magnetic materials, etc.
Shantal Adajian
Graduate Student, Sep. 2022 - Present
Shantal is originally from Anjar, Lebanon and she received her B.S. degree in Engineering Sciences from The American University of Armenia in 2022. After that, she joined the TEA Lab upon her enrollment at UCSB for a PhD program in Mechanical Engineering. Her research interests include energy transport, fluid mechanics, and nanoelectromechanical systems and their application in renewable energy technologies.
Zeyu Xiang
Graduate Student, Aug. 2023 - Present
Zeyu received his BS and MS in Thermophysics Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2023 and has been a member of the TEALab since then. His research interest focuses on phonons, including both the theoretical and experimental aspects.
Email: zeyuxiang@ucsb.edu
Ashlynn Overholser
Graduate Student, July 2024 - Present
Ashlynn received her Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine in December 2023. She joined the TEALab upon her enrollment at the University of California, Santa Barbara for her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. Her research interests include thermal and energy transport in materials and how they contribute to renewable energy resources and sustainable practices. Outside of research, Ashlynn enjoys playing volleyball, rock climbing, reading, and baking.
Email: zeyuxiang@ucsb.edu
Matthew Delmont
Graduate Student, September 2024 - Present
Matthew received his Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine in June 2024. He joined the TEALab upon enrollment at the University of California, Santa Barbara for his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include materials thermal transport, thermal switching, and thin film growth.
Email: mdelmont@ucsb.edu
Joshua Ancheta
Graduate Student, September 2024 - Present
Joshua was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Merced, in May 2024. He joined the TEALab upon enrolling at the University of California, Santa Barbara, for his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include fabricating and characterizing materials for their energy and thermal transport properties, contributing to renewable energy.
Email: jancheta@ucsb.edu
Alumni
Razan Nughays, Visiting Ph.D. Student, Jul. 2024 - Sep. 2024.
Ryan Gnabasik, Postdoctoral Scholar, Sep. 2021 - Aug. 2024. Next Position: Euclid Techlabs
Lokanath Patra, Postdoctoral Scholar, Dec. 2021 - July 2024. Next Position: Research Scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology
Basamat Shaheen, Postdoctoral Scholar, May 2022 - July 2024.
Jiaoyue Yuan, Ph.D. Student, Jun. 2019 - Mar. 2024. Next Position: Software engineer at Google
Usama Choudhry, Ph.D. Student, Sep. 2017 - Dec. 2023.
Melanie Adams, Ph.D. Student, Jan. 2019 - Aug. 2023. Next Position: Postdoc Fellow at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Wenkai Ouyang, Ph.D. Student, Aug. 2018 - Jul. 2023. Next Position: R&D Engineer at Applied Materials
Xiangying Zuo, Undergraduate Researcher, Mar. 2020 - Jun. 2023. Next Position: Graduate Student at Harvard University
Alex Ackerman, Undergraduate Researcher, Jul. 2018 - Jun. 2021; Master Student, Jul. 2021 - Jun. 2023. Next Position: R&D Engineer at Avicena
Taeyong Kim, Postdoctoral Scholar, Sep. 2020 - July 2022. Next Position: Assistant Professor at Seoul National University, South Korea
Shengying Yue, Postdoctoral Scholar, Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2021. Next Position: Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Jeewan Ranasinghe, Postdoctoral Scholar, Jan. 2020 - Jan. 2021. Next Position: Postdoc at Penn State University
Bowen Deng, Undergraduate Researcher, Feb. 2019 - Jun. 2020. Next Position: Graduate Student at UC Berkeley
Yu Li, Postdoctoral Scholar, Sep. 2019 - Jun. 2020. Next Position: Research Scientist at University of Science and Technology of China
Ruotong Zhang, Undergraduate Visiting Student, Jul. 2019 - Sep. 2019. Next Position: Graduate Student at Johns Hopkins University
Tashi Xu, Undergraduate Researcher, Apr. 2018 - Jun. 2019. Next Position: Graduate Student at University of Tokyo
Isabella Ramirez, Master Student, 2018-2019. Next Position: MBA Student at University of Washington
Jessica Jauregui-Gonzalez, Undergraduate Researcher, Feb. 2018 - Sep. 2018
Chenxi Sui, Visiting Undergraduate Student, Jul. 2018 - Oct. 2018. Next Position: Graduate Student at University of Chicago
Alejandro Vega-Flick, Postdoctoral Scholar, Jan. 2018 - Jan. 2019