Prof Shuhuai YAO's Profile

August 19th, 2009
Name: 
Prof Shuhuai YAO
Position: 
Assistant Professor
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Brief Introduction: 
Professor Yao received the B.S. degree in engineering mechanics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2000, and the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford in 2001 and 2005, where her research investigated electrokinetic transport phenomena in porous media for microelectronics cooling. Before joining the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, She worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where she was engaged in developing ultrafast microfluidic mixers for studies of protein folding kinetics.
Membership: 
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME)
  • American Physical Society (APS)
Research Interests: 
  • Micro-/nano-scale fluid dynamics and heat transfer
  • Micropumping and micromixing
  • Thermal management for microelectronics
  • Energy saving and energy harvesting devices
  • Chemi/bioanalytical devices
Representative Publications: 
  • S. Yao and O. Bakajin, “Improvements in mixing time and mixing uniformity in mixers for studies of protein folding kinetics,” Analytical chemistry, 79, pp. 5753-5759, 2007.
  • C.-W. Lin, S. Yao, J. Posner, A.M. Myers, and J.G. Santiago, “Toward orientation independent design for gas recombination in closed-loop electroosmotic pumps,” Sensors and Actuators B, 128(#1), pp. 334-339, 2007.
  • L. J. Lapidus, S. Yao, K.S. McGarruty, D.E. Hertzog, E. Tubman, and O.Bakajin, “Protein Hydrophobic Collapse and Early Folding Steps Observed in a Microfluidic Mixer,” Biophysical Journal, 93(#1), pp. 218-224, 2007.
  • T.W. Kenny, K.E. Goodson, J.G. Santiago, E. Wang, J.-M. Koo, L. Jiang, L. Zhan, D.W. Fogg, S. Yao, R. Flynn, C.-H. Cheng, and C.H. Hidrovo, “Advanced Cooling Technologies for Microprocessors,” International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems, 16(1), pp. 301-313, 2006.
  • S. Yao, A.M. Myers, J. Posner, K.A. Rose, and J.G. Santiago, “Electroosmotic pumps fabricated from porous silicon membranes,” Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 15(#3), pp. 717-728, 2006.
  • S. Yao and J.G. Santiago, “Porous glass electroosmotic pumps: theory,” Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 268, pp. 133-142, 2003.
  • S. Yao, D.E. Hertzog, S. Zeng, J.C. Mikkelsen, and J.G. Santiago, “Porous glass electroosmotic pumps: design and experiments,” Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 268, pp. 143-153, 2003.
  • L. Jiang, J. C. Mikkelsen, J.-M. Koo, D. Huber, S. Yao, L. Zhang, P. Zhou, J. G. Maveety, R. Prasher, J.G. Santiago, T.W. Kenny, and K.E. Goodson, “Closed-loop electroosmotic microchannel cooling system for VLSI circuits,” IEEE Transactions on Components & Packaging Technologies, 25(#3), pp.347-355, 2002.
  • K.E. Goodson, J.G. Santiago, T.W. Kenny, L. Jiang, S. Zeng, J.-M. Koo, L. Zhang, S. Yao and E.Wang, “Electroosmotic microchannel cooling system for microprocessors,” Electronics Cooling, 8, pp. 46-47, 2002.
Inventions: 
  • US Patent 7231839, Electroosmotic micropumps with applications to fluid dispensing and field sampling
  • US Patent Application 20060254913, Orientation independent electroosmotic pump
  • US Patent Application 20070009366, Controlling electrolytically generated gas bubbles in in-plane electroosmotic pumps