September 2016

JI WELCOME NEW FACULTY!

Dr. Yanfeng Shen Joined Faculty as Assistant Professor and Associate Special Research Fellow

Before joining JI, Dr. Yanfeng Shen was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Depart-ment of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan. He was actively working with Professor Carlos E. S. Cesnik on US army and navy structural health monitoring projects in the Active Aeroelasticity and Structures Research Laboratory (A2SRL). Before joining the University of Michigan, Dr. Shen received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of South Carolina, where he worked as a Research Assistant in the Laboratory for Active Materials and Smart Structures (LAMSS), under the guidance of Professor Victor Giurgiutiu. His research interest covers structural health monitoring,

guided waves, nonlinear ultrasonics, active materials and smart structures, and advanced computational mechanics. He has been actively participating in various professional services. He is an invited reviewer for several top tier internation-al journals in his field. He was invited by the Nondestructive Structural Monitoring and Diagnosis Technical Commit-tee under ASME and became the youngest member on the committee.

Dr. Chong Han Joined Faculty as Assistant Professor and Associate Special Research Fellow

Chong Han received the Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 2011. He obtained the Master of Science and the Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engi-neering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2012 and 2016, respectively. Dr Han joined JI in June 2016 as Assistant Professor and Associate Special Research Fellow. He has been mentoring several undergraduate and graduate students. Dr. Han was the recipi-ent of the Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Scholarship, Australia, 2010-2011, and the National Information Communica-

tions Technology Research Centre (NICTA) of Excellence Summer Scholarship, Australia, 2009-2010. His current research interests include Terahertz Band Communication Networks, Electromagnetic Nanonetworks, 5G Cellular Networks, Graphene-enabled Wireless Communications. In these areas, he has published multiple peer-reviewed scien-tific publications, in prestigious journals and top-rated conferences in IEEE and ACM. He is a guest editor for IEEE Access special issue on “Nano-antennas, Nano-transceivers and Nano-networks/Communications”, 2017. He has been a member of the technical program committees of ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Com-munication (Nanocom) 2016, Global Symposium on Millimeter-Waves (GSMM) 2016, Global Symposium on Milli-meter-Waves (GSMM) 2015, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2015 Spring. He has been a reviewer for multiple IEEE, ACM and Elsevier journals. He is a member of the IEEE.

Dr. Jiajia Luo Joined Faculty as Assistant Professor and Associate Special Research Fellow

Dr. Jiajia Luo received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Mich-igan in 2012. Before joining the JI, he was a Research Fellow in the Biomechanics Research Laboratory in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on applying innovative medical device and patient specific computer modeling to understand the biomechanics of female pelvic floor disorders, and utilizing this information to establish new preventive strategies and new clinical treatment strate-gies to improve women’s health. He was a recipient of Best Scientific Paper Award from the American Urogynecologic Society (2010), and PhD Competition 3rd Place Award

from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Summer Bioengineering Conference (2013). He also got a career development award as the Principal Investigator from Postdoctoral Translational Scholars Program (PTSP) in Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR) (2014). His work on female pelvic floor biomechanics was highlight-ed in Journal of Biomechanics (2015).

Dr. Jaehyung Ju Joined Faculty as Associate Professor and Special Research Fellow

Dr. Jaehyung Ju is currently Associate Professor and Special Research Fellow at the University of Michigan - Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute. He is the recipient of 2015 Orr Best Paper Award of ASME Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology and 2012 Young Engineer of the Year Award from ASME North Texas Section.His current research interests are in mechanics and design of metamaterials with lattice (cellular) solids. His group has explored both fundamental and applied research to realize metamaterials at structural applications – nonpneumatic tires,

morphing wings, and biomedical devices. Advanced manufacturing methods, e.g., 3D and 4D Printing technologies, have been used for supporting the mechanics and design of mechanical metamaterials.He has experience in the U.S. academic positions for 11 years after his Ph.D. including 5 years at the rank of Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas (UNT), 1 year at Visiting Assistant Professorship at Texas A&M Universi-ty–Kingsville, 5 years as a postdoctoral scholar at Clemson University and Texas A&M University-College Satiation. He received Ph.D. degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University-College Station in 2005. He had worked in the CAD/CAM research center at Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) (1996-2000) as a Research Scientist and at Dongyang Technical University (1999-2000) as a Lecturer.As a PI and co-PI, he has lead multiple projects (~$500,000) funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) and indus-try sponsors. He has published more than 80 refereed journal articles and conference proceedings in the area of mechan-ics, design, and manufacturing of metamaterials, cellular solids, composites, sandwich structures, smart materials, and non-pneumatic tires. One of his papers was selected for 2015 Orr Best Paper Award, the award annually given to the best paper in ASME Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology. He has five US patents as an inventor of non-pneumatic tire components and a biomedical implant associated with design of mechanical metamaterials while collaborating with industry partners.He has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in solid mechanics, dynamics, and manufacturing; i) Graduate - Continuum Mechanics and Advanced Mechanics of Materials, ii) Undergraduate - Mechanics of Materials, Finite Element Analysis, Mechanical Vibration, Machine Tool Design, and CNC Manufacturing. Dr. Ju has demonstrated his teaching skills with excellent evaluation scores from students who have been highly motivated in his classes. He is serving as technical committee and a session/topic organizer of i) Mechanics and Design of Cellular Materials - Applied Mechanics Division of ASME, ii) Tire and Wheel Technology of SAE, and iii) Tire Performance of Tire Soci-ety. He has served as a referee in many international journals.

WORKSHOPS

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE)

Prof. Victor Giurgiutiu, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Laboratory for Active Materials and Smart Structures (LAMSS) at the University of South Carolina, was invited by Prof. Yanfeng Shen for a talk about Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE).

Speaker BioDr. Victor Giurgiutiu received his BSc (Eng) in Aeronautics and his PhD in Aeronautical Structures from Imperial College, London, UK in 1972 and 1977, respectively. He has a wide research interest in structural mechanics that spans active materials, smart structures, structural health monitoring, mechatronics, and other multi-physics applications. Dr. Giurgiutiu is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Labora-tory for Active Materials and Smart Structures (LAMSS) at the University of South Carolina. He has published 7 books, 16 book chapters, 102 archival journal articles, and many conference papers. He is widely cited worldwide with h-index=39. His book on Structural Health Monitoring with Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors (Elsevier Academic Press, now at the 2ndEd.) has been cited ~750 times, and two of his seminal papers have received ~500 and ~400 citations, respectively. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), Fellow of ASME, and Associate Fellow of AIAA. Dr. Giurgiutiu serves as Special Issues Editor to theStructural Health Monitoring – An International Journal (Sage, UK). He is Associate Editor to the Aeronautical Journal of RAeS and Associate Editor to the International Journal of Sustainable Materials and Structural Systems (Inderscience Pub., Switzerland). He was recognized with Structural Health Monitoring Person of the Year Award 2003 and asNondestructive Evaluation Lifetime Achievement Award 2016. He has recently completed his duty as co-chair of the SPIE Symposium on Smart Structures and NDE which com-prises 10 parallel conferences and has an international participation of over 800 attendees. During 2006-2009 he served as Structural Mechanics Program Manager with the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOS-R).i

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Recent Progress on Exploring High-Temperature Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect and Gate-Controlled Topological 1D Mode

Prof. Zhenhua Qiao, from University of Science and Technology of China, was invited by Prof. Yaping Dan for a talk about Recent Progress on Exploring High-Temperature Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect and Gate-Controlled Topological 1D Mode.

Speaker BioDr. Qiao received his PhD from the University of Hong Kong and carried out his postdoctoral research at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include carrier transport and topological properties in low dimensional materials. He has published more than 30 papers in high profile journals such as PRL and Nature Communications. He has won a few prestigious awards including the National “1000 Young Talents”.

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Graphene-enabled Nano/Bio Hybrids for Chemical Detection and Medical Diagnostics

Prof. A.T. Charlie Johnson, Professor from University of Pennsylvania, was invited by Prof. Yaping Dan for a talk about Graphene-enabled Nano/Bio Hybrids for Chemical Detection and Medical Diagnostics.

Speaker BioProf. A.T. Charlie Johnson is Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Director of Nano/Bio Interface Center and Executive Editor of AIP Advances in University of Pennsylvania. His group is interested in the nanometer-scale transport properties (charge, energy, spin, ...) of molecular and super-molecular systems. These systems are of rising interest both from the technological (possible future nanoelectron-ics) and fundamental points of view. In order to study the electronic properties, we must first connect nanometer size objects to the outside world. To this end we use a variety of nanofabrication techniques including optical lithography, electron beam lithography, thin film deposition and etching approaches. Much of our work relies on facilities in the University of Pennsylvania Micro/NanoFabrication Labora-tory. Once we have a molecular circuit, we measure its properties using a variety of techniques includ-ing: low-temperature magnetotransport, thermal conductivity measurement, and hybrid scanning probe techniques that let us measure local electronic properties with nanometer-scale resolution.

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Small-scale Solar Thermal Energy Systems

Prof. Abdulnaser Sayma, Professor of Energy Engineering and the Associate Dean for Post Graduate Taught Programmes from City University London, was invited by Prof. Qiang Zhang to talk about Small-scale Solar Thermal Energy Systems.

Speaker BioProf. Abdulnaser Sayma, Professor of Energy Engineering, joined City University on January 2013 and he is currently the Associate Dean for Post Graduate Taught Programmes. He has been a professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics at the University of Sussex since 2006. His main research area is the development of compressible flow CFD methods for turbomachinery applications and the development of turbo compressors and expanders. He has over 100 publications in this field and has worked on mod-elling gas turbine compressors and turbines for both aerospace and industrial applications. He has been leading a number of research projects in industrial gas turbines with particular emphasis on CFD model-ling and experimental validation of compressors and expanders in collaboration with industry and Euro-pean research institutions. He is currently leading a team developing a micro-gas turbine powered by concentrated solar power using a solar dish system with over £1 million funding for City University activities. He is also leading EPSRC funded research on the development of turbo expanders for Organ-ic Rankin Cycles. He has also been leading a work package on a major project on the future generation of industrial gas turbine technology fired by Hydrogen rich synthetic fuels. He is a fellow of the IMEchE and a member of the European Turbine Networ Project Board.

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Needs and Challenges for Ensuring Structural Integrity, Reliability and Safety for Airframes and Gas Turbine Engines – focus on Life Assessment and Prediction Technology

Prof. M.-H. Herman Shen, Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, from the Ohio State University, was invited by Prof. Chien-Pin Chen for a talk about Needs and Challenges for Ensuring Structural Integrity, Reliability and Safety for Airframes and Gas Turbine Engines – focus on Life Assessment and Prediction Technology.

Speaker BioProf. M.-H. Herman Shen, Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State Univer-sity, received his Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering from University of Michigan in 1989. He joined the faculty of the Aerospace Engineering at The Ohio State University in August 1989. For the past twenty seven years, he has pioneered developments in structural health management framework and fatigue life prediction schemes for gas turbine engines, advanced composites, and adhesive joints. He is a recipient of the Air Force Research Initiation Award in 1991, ALCOA Science Foundation Award in 1995, and The Ohio State University College of Engineering Lumley Research Award in 2001. Dr. Shen has published more than 125 journal papers, book chapters, and technical reports. Dr. Shen has received thirty research grants/awards with total over 6 million US dollars from NASA, AFRL, NAVAIR, ARO, NSF, DoE, GE, Idaho National Labs, Boeing, DAGSI, Pratt & Whitney, Lock-heed Martin, GM, Honda R&D, & Shanghai Electric. He is a fellow of ASME and an associate editor of the ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power (2015-2018).

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Exploiting Unique Characteristics of Beyond-CMOS Transistors for Spatial-Temporal Information Processing

Prof. Sharon Hu, Professor from the University of Notre Dame, was invited by Prof. Weikang Qian for a talk about Exploiting Unique Characteristics of Beyond-CMOS Transistors for Spatial-Temporal Information Processing.

Speaker BioSharon Hu is a professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. Her research interests include low-power system design, circuit and architecture design with emerging technologies, hardware/software co-design and real-time embedded systems. She has published more than 250 papers in these areas, and received the Best Paper Award from the Design Automation Conference in 2001 and from the IEEE Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures in 2009. She is the Program Chair of Design Automation Conference in 2016. She also served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on VLSI, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. Sharon Hu is a Fellow of the IEEE.

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Chemo-mechanical behavior of high-performance electrode materials for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries

Prof. Min Zhou, George W. Woodruff Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech., was invited by Prof. Shane Johnson for a talk about Chemo-mechanical behavior of high-performance electrode materials for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.

Speaker BioDr. Min Zhou is the George W. Woodruff Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech. He received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1993 and was a post-doctoral fellow at Caltech between 1993 and 1995. He joined the faculty at Georgia Tech in 1995. His research focuses on material behavior at several length scales, emphasizing molecular dynamics simu-lations, multiscale continuum modeling, and experiments with laser interferometry and digital diagnos-tics. Professor Zhou is a recipient of the US NSF’s CAREER award, the Sigma Xi Georgia Tech Chap-ter’s Best Paper Award, and Outstanding Overseas Young Investigator Award from the Natural Science Foundation of China. He is a Fellow of the American Society for Mechanical Engineers. He was named a Changjiang Professor by the Chinese Ministry of Education in 2007 and a World Class University Professor by the National Research Foundation of Korea in 2009. He has served as Associate Editor, Editor, or Editorial Board Member of a number of journals, including the ASME Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology and Science in China – Mechanics, Physics and Astronomy. He has given over 350 presentations in the United States, Europe and Asia, over 160 of which are invited talks, invit-ed seminars, invited keynote/plenary talks, or distinguished lectures.

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Micro/nanoscale Thermal Radiation Control Using Nanostructures and 2D Materials

A talk was given by Mr. Bo Zhao, from Georgia Tech., invited by Prof. Hua Bao, titled Micro/nanoscale Thermal Radiation Control Using Nanostructures and 2D Materials.

Speaker BioBo Zhao is a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He joined Professor Zhuomin Zhang’s group after graduating from University of Science of Technology of China in 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in Modern Mechanics. He has been researching in both near- and far-field thermal radiation, plasmonics, electromagnetic metamaterials, and radiative properties of 2D materials. He has 14 journal publications with more than 160 citations in total according to Google Scholar. His work on graphene was entitled the top downloads of the Optical Society (OSA) in June 2015. He has given over ten conference presentations and received the best poster award in 2013 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition. He is a reviewer for Journal of Quantita-tive Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Optics Express, Optics Letters, and Journal of Applied Phys-ics. He is a student member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and the Optical Society.

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First-Principles Studies of the Mechanical Properties of Transition Metal Alloys

Prof. Liang Qi, Assistant Professor at University of Michigan, was invited by Prof. Yongxing Shen for a talk about First-Principles Studies of the Mechanical Properties of Transition Metal Alloys.

Speaker BioProf. Liang Qi received his PhD in 2009 from University of Pennsylvania under the guidance of Prof. Ju Li. After that, he had his postdoctoral research experiences in Prof. Ju Li’s group and then worked as an assistant project scientist under the supervise of Prof. Mark Asta, Prof. Daryl Chrzan and Prof. John W. Morris at UC Berkeley. Prof. Qi began his independent academic career from last year (2015) as an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prof. Qi has extensive experiences to investigate the materials chemical and mechanical properties based on first-principles calculations, atomistic simulations and multi-scale modeling. He also has extensive experience in collaborating with researchers in experimental fields. Prof. Qi worked on first-principles calculations and multiscale simulations of surface chemistry and electrocatalysis for oxygen reduction reaction in PEM fuel cell for his PhD thesis, where both the catalytic activity and stability of Pt and Pt alloys were his major research subjects. Starting from his postdoctoral experiences, he worked on simu-lations of nanomechanics in both structural and functional materials by collaborating with in-situ char-acterization experimentalists. He also worked on the theoretical investigations of thermodynamics and electronic properties of complex ionic compounds as nuclear waste storage materials. In recent years one of his major research areas are focused on the material mechanical and interfacial defect properties starting from atomistic scales. He recently studied the dislocation core structures in Ti and how the dislocations interact with impurities atoms. Currently he is working on the improvement of intrinsic ductility of transition metals by tuning the electronic structures and ideal strengths. He is also develop-ing the methods to calculate the interfacial energies in alloys by applying statistical methods and first-principles calculations.

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A System Perspective of Power Integrity at Sub-22nm: Challenges and Solutions

Prof. Cheng Zhuo, Professor of Zhejiang University, was invited by Prof. Weikang Qian for a talk about A System Perspective of Power Integrity at Sub-22nm: Challenges and Solutions.

Speaker BioDr. Cheng Zhuo received B.S. and M.S degrees from Zhejiang University, in 2005 and 2007 respective-ly. He received Ph.D degree in Computer Science & Engineering in 2010 from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. After that he joined Intel Corp., USA, in 2011 and later led multiple research areas in Intel for sub-14nm technologies as Staff R&D. Dr. Zhuo joined Department of Information Science & Elec-tronic Engineering of Zhejiang University in 2016 and was selected in “National 1000 Talented Young Scholar Program". His current research interests include 3D IC design, power & signal integrity, high performance computing, and general VLSI EDA areas.

Dr. Zhuo has been invited to many technical program committees of top conferences in VLSI and EDA, and has published over 40 papers, and 1 book chapter. He has received 4 Intel Division Recognition awards, 2012 ACM SIGDA technical leadership award and Best Paper Nomination Award in DAC 2016. He is a senior member of IEEE.

Speaker BioProf. M.-H. Herman Shen, Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State Univer-sity, received his Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering from University of Michigan in 1989. He joined the faculty of the Aerospace Engineering at The Ohio State University in August 1989. For the past twenty seven years, he has pioneered developments in structural health management framework and fatigue life prediction schemes for gas turbine engines, advanced composites, and adhesive joints. He is a recipient of the Air Force Research Initiation Award in 1991, ALCOA Science Foundation Award in 1995, and The Ohio State University College of Engineering Lumley Research Award in 2001. Dr. Shen has published more than 125 journal papers, book chapters, and technical reports. Dr. Shen has received thirty research grants/awards with total over 6 million US dollars from NASA, AFRL, NAVAIR, ARO, NSF, DoE, GE, Idaho National Labs, Boeing, DAGSI, Pratt & Whitney, Lock-heed Martin, GM, Honda R&D, & Shanghai Electric. He is a fellow of ASME and an associate editor of the ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power (2015-2018).

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Optimal First-Order Convex Minimization Methods with Applications to Image Reconstruction and Machine Learning

Prof. Jeffrey Fessler, Professor of EECS at the University of Michigan, was invited by Prof. Yong Long for a talk about Optimal first-order convex minimization methods with applications to image reconstruction and machine learning.

Speaker BioJeff Fessler is the William L. Root Professor of EECS at the University of Michigan. He received the BSEE degree from Purdue University in 1985, the MSEE degree from Stanford University in 1986, and the M.S. degree in Statistics from Stanford University in 1989. From 1985 to 1988 he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow at Stanford, where he earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1990. He has worked at the University of Michigan since then. From 1991 to 1992 he was a Department of Energy Alexander Hollaender Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Division of Nuclear Medicine. From 1993 to 1995 he was an Assistant Professor in Nuclear Medicine and the Bioengineering Program. He is now a Professor in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Radiology, and Biomedical Engineering. He became a Fellow of the IEEE in 2006, for contributions to the theory and practice of image reconstruction. He received the Francois Erbsmann award for his IPMI93 presenta-tion, and the Edward Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist Award in 2013. He has served as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, the IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, and is currently serving as an associate editor for the IEEE Transac-tions on Computational Imaging. He has chaired the IEEE T-MI Steering Committee and the ISBI Steering Committee. He was co-chair of the 1997 SPIE conference on Image Reconstruction and Resto-ration, technical program co-chair of the 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), and general chair of ISBI 2007. His research interests are in statistical aspects of imaging prob-lems, and he has supervised doctoral research in PET, SPECT, X-ray CT, MRI, and optical imaging problems.

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Efficient Data-Driven Learning of Sparsifying Transform Models

Dr. Saiprasad Ravishankar, Research Fellow at the University of Michigan, was invited by Prof. Yong Long for a talk about Efficient Data-Driven Learning of Sparsifying Transform Models.

Speaker BioSaiprasad Ravishankar received the B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, in 2008. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering, in 2010 and 2014 respectively, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from February to May 2015, and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Coordinated Science Laboratory from February to August, 2015. Since August 10, 2015, he has been a Research Fellow at the University of Michigan, where he is working with Prof. Raj Rao Nadakuditi and Prof. Jeffrey A. Fessler. His current research interests include signal and image processing, dictionary learning, sparse modeling, medical imaging, data science, inverse problems, compressed sensing, and large-scale data processing.

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Towards A Theoretical Analysis of PCA for Heteroscedastic Data

Mr. David Hong from University of Michigan, was invited by Prof. Yong Long for a talk about Towards A Theoretical Analysis of PCA for Heteroscedastic Data.

Speaker BioDavid Hong received the B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mathematics in 2013 from Duke University and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering: Systems in 2015 from the Univer-sity of Michigan. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering: Systems at the University of Michigan. Research interests include algorithms, statistical signal processing, subspace and sparse models, and inverse problems.

PROJECT

Name Project Title Program

Type Grant(RMB)

Start and End

Dates

KWEE YAN TEH

Investigating cycle-to-cycle variation of fuel spray momentum flux

International Young Scientist

340000 2017-1

to 2018-12

Hong Zhu

High-throughput Computational Materials Design for Layered Ternary Compounds with "Phonon Glass- Electron Crystal" Features

Young Scientist

200000 2017-1

to 2019-12

Yanfeng Shen

Self-sensing and health monitoring of piezoelectric composite structures using liquid metal electrodes

Young Scientist

200000 2017-1

to 2019-12

Wenjie Wan

Self-referenced comb and Low-noise Microwave Generation in Microcavities

General Program

700000 2017-1

to 2020-12

Hua Bao First-principles investigation of electron-phonon coupling and non-equilibrium conduction

General Program

600000 2016-1

to 2020-12

Jun Zhang Quantum system identification and parameter estimation with their applications

General Program

640000 2016-1

to 2020-12

Wenjie Wan Awarded National Key Research and Development Program Specialized Fund (Former 973 Program, Youth Category)Prof. Wenjie Wan has been granted National Key Research and Development Program Specialized Fund (Former 973 Program, Youth Category) worth RMB4.98 million with duration of 5 years by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST). The funded project aims to study Non-Hermitian optics inside high-Q microcavity. Shanghai Jiao Tong University has two senior awardees and one junior awardee of Quantum Control and Quantum Information specialized project in 2016. Prof. Wenjie Wan wins the junior one and becomes the 1st awardee at the JI winning that fund.Since the end of 2015, MOST has reformed and merged previous funding schemes into National Key Research and Development Program. 42 Specialized Funds have been launched till now.

Six Faculty Members Win the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) GrantsSix JI faculty members have been awarded grants by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) for their research projects, according to a recent NSFC announcement on list of 2016 funded proj-ects. Awardees of this year are Kwee-Yan TEH, Hong Zhu, Yanfeng Shen, Wenjie Wan, Hua Bao and Jun Zhang. Congratulations! The following is the list of the funded projects.

SELECTED PAPERSParameter Design for a 6.78-MHz Wireless Power Transfer System Based on Analytical Derivation of Class E Current-Driven Rectifier

Liu, M (Liu, Ming)[ 1 ] ; Fu, MF (Fu, Minfan)[ 1 ] ; Ma, CB (Ma, Chengbin)[ 1,2 ]

[ 1 ] Shanghai Jiao Tong University, University of Michigan Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China[ 2 ] Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Mechnical Engineering, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of ChinaIEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, VOL 31, NO 6, Pages (4280-4291)

DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2015.2472565Manuscript received April 19, 2015; revised July 11, 2015; accepted August 15, 2015, Published June 2016

Ming Liu received the B.S. degree from SiChuan University, Sichuan, China, in 2007, and the M.S. degree from University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China, in 2011, both in mechatronic engineering. He is

currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering, University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. His researches include design and optimization of megahertz wireless power transfer systems and high frequency power electronic circuits.

Minfan Fu received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai,

China in 2010, 2013, and 2016 respectively. He is currently a visiting scholar in the Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA. His research interests include megahertz wireless power transfer, resonant converters, and circuit design optimization.

Chengbin Ma received the B.S. (Hons.) degree in industrial automation from East China University of Science and T e c h n o l o g y , Shanghai, China, in 1997, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees both in the electrical

engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2001 and 2004, respectively. Dr. Ma is currently an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering with the University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, Shanghai, China. Between 2006 and 2008, he held a post-doctoral position with the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, University of California Davis, USA. From 2004 to 2006, he was a R\&D researcher with Servo Laboratory, Fanuc Limited, Japan. His research interests include energy and battery management, megahertz wireless power transfer, mechatronic control, and applications from electronic devices to electric vehicles, microgrids, and smartgrids. Dr. Ma has established the Dynamic Control Systems laboratory. He is now serving as Vice chair, Energy Storage Technical Committee, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.

SELECTED PAPERS

AbstractMagnetic resonance coupling working at megahertz (MHz) is widely considered as a promising tech-nology for the mid-range transfer of a medium amount of power. It is known that the soft-switch-ing-based Class E rectifiers are suitable for high-frequency rectification, and thus potentially improve the overall efficiency of MHz wireless power transfer (WPT) systems. This paper reports new results on optimized parameter design of a MHz WPT system based on the analytical derivation of a Class E current-driven rectifier. The input impedance of the Class E rectifier is accurately derived, for the first time, considering the on-resistance of the diode and the equivalent series resistance of the filter induc-tor. This derived input impedance is then used to develop and guide design procedures that determine the optimal parameters of the rectifier, coupling coils, and a Class E PA in an example 6.78-MHz WPT system. Furthermore, the efficiencies of these three components and the overall WPT system are also analytically derived for design and evaluation purposes. In the final experiments, the analytical results are found to well match the experimental results. With loosely coupled coils (mutual inductance coeffi-cient k=0.1327), the experimental 6.78-MHz WPT system can achieve 84% efficiency at a power level of 20 Watts.

The IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS covers all issues of widespread or generic interest to engineers who work in the field of power electron-ics. Papers which treat new and novel device, circuit or system issues which are of generic interest to power electronics engineers are published. The publications are followed very carefully all over the world and almost every month the TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS has papers listed between the top 100 downloads from IEEE Xplore registered monthly.

VISIT

JI Associate Dean Visits GE

On June 7, 2016, JI Associate Dean Xinwan Li paid a visit to GE’s global research center in Shanghai and had a meeting with the Shanghai center’s management including General Manager & Technology Leader Bin Wei, Director Bing Zhang and Senior Principal Engineer Peng Li. During the meeting, Xinwan Li gave a detailed introduction of JI focusing on research and its collaboration with corporate partners. Bin Wei echoed Li’s introduc-tion with a presentation of GE and its past cooperation with JI featuring cap-stone projects. Both sides agreed that bilateral collaboration will be strengthened in the future with deeper understanding of mutual needs. A Memo of Understanding (MOU) is expected to be mapped out and signed soon, including topics such as workshops in 2016, fields of collaboration (numerical control cloud service, industrial internet, energy, medical care, etc.) joint laboratory and JI’s future educational model.

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JI Hosts CACES Research Symposium

To promote research collaboration among SJTU faculty members, the CACES (Center for Advanced Computational Engineering and Science) Research Symposium was held at JI’s multi-media classroom on September 10th. As a part of the JI Graduate Seminar Series, the symposium was attended by more than 40 graduate students, and eight of them presented their recent work. Professor Jinglai Li from the Institute of Natural Scienc-es, Professor Minhua Wen from the Center for High Performance Comput-ing, Professor Weipeng Li from the Department of Aeronautics and Astro-nautics, and Professor Li Jiang from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering were invited to talk. From the Joint Institute, Professor Xinwan Li, Associate Dean for Research, Professors David Hung, Hua Bao, Yongxing Shen, Lipo Wang, Hong Zhu, Weikang Qian, Yong Long, Mian Li, Yanfeng Shen and Jaehyung Ju participated.

Professor Xinwan Li gave a welcome address. On behalf of JI Office of Graduate Education, Professor David Hung strongly encouraged graduate students to improve themselves by joining the symposium. Afterwards, 14 professors and graduate students presented their current research progress followed by fruitful discussions. All faculty participants agreed that such symposiums should be held regularly to boost collaboration and graduate students’ performance.

ADMINISTRATION

Research Financial Reimbursement Policy UpdateTo solve common problems in research funding reimbursement, the JI Office of Research (Financial Services) have summarized tips below for your reference.

II. The Reimbursement of MealsThe maximum limit of meals is 50 RMB/person for people inside SJTU and 100 RMB/person for visitors outside. The statement of meals is needed and please do not exceed the upper limit.The reimbursement of food needs the list of details and also the statement which explains the usage and the people involved.

III. Situations Requiring A List of DetailsAll the manufacturing and repairing reimbursement need the details or contracts.Printing and copy reimbursement need the list or contract.Invoices with contents of “office supplies” need the details.Invoices with contents of “tools” need the details.The reimbursement of the lodging needs the details provided by the hotel.Please avoid using the payment tool such as Paypall.

IV. Problems Related to Business Card ReimbursementSince July 2016, purchasing of 16 categories below will only be paid by business bank card or remittance. The financial department of SJTU will not deal with the borrowing case for travel, office supplies, accommodation, supplies with low price and manufacturing fee.The 16 categories are:Office supplies, printing, consulting, commission, energy fee, delivery fee, property costs, travel, repairing, leasing, conference fee, training fee, accommodation fee, supplies, business vehicle management and other transportation fee.

I. Short-Term Oversea VisitFirst of all, for all the oversea visit reimbursement, faculty should estimate accurately the leaving and arriving dates (including the time difference) in the approval document from SJTU, or facul-ty need to change the approval before reimbursement.The materials you need to submit are as below:

All the materials above will be submitted to ‘my SJTU’ at http://my.sjtu.edu.cn/workflow/index by the JI Office of Research (Financial Services), faculty need to click approval before routing to the next step.All the receipts and invoices need Chinese illustration with purpose, amount (currency type and signature.If faculty cannot get the original copy of the payment bank, please provide the full screen capture photo of the online bank payment page.

i. Copy of your passport photo pageii. Copy of the visa pageiii. Passport’s copy of the exit and entry stamp page by the China Customsiv. The receipt of the passport from SJTU(for business passport)v. Summary of the visit (including what you do and the achievement during the visit)

CONTACTOffice of Research:Paula Tang, Room 320

University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute Shanghai Jiao Tong University

800 Dongchuan Road, Minhang DistrictShanghai, 200240, P. R. China

Phone: +86(21)34206045 Ext. 3202 Fax: +86(21)34206525

E-mail: wopaulatang@sjtu.edu.cn

For input, questions and suggestions, please feel free to contact the JI Office of Research.