People

Ljubica Milutinovic

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Email ljubicam@nospam65680761971c1.illinois.edu
Title Coordinator
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center

Administration

Nenad Miljkovic

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Email nmiljkov@nospam65680761997ce.illinois.edu
Title Professor, Kritzer Faculty Scholar
Director
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center

Research Principal Investigators

Andrew G. Alleyne

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Email alleyne@nospam656807619d41b.illinois.edu
Title Ralph & Catherine Fisher Professor, Director Power Optimization of Electro-Thermal Systems

M. Quinn Brewster

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Email brewster@nospam656807619ed29.illinois.edu
Title Hermia G. Soo Professor

Clark Bullard

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Email bullard@nospam65680761a046e.illinois.edu
Title Research Professor, Professor Emeritus
Founding Director

Lili Cai

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Email lilicai@nospam65680761a10d4.illinois.edu
Title Assistant Professor

Leonardo Chamorro

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Email lpchamo@nospam65680761a19df.illinois.edu
Title Associate Professor

Elif Ertekin

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Email ertekin@nospam65680761a22a0.illinois.edu
Title Associate Professor

Tony Jacobi

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Email a-jacobi@nospam65680761a347d.illinois.edu
Title Department Head, Richard W. Kritzer Distinguished Professor

Iwona M. Jasiuk

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Email ijasiuk@nospam65680761a4977.illinois.edu
Title Professor

Gabriel Juarez

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Email gjuarez@nospam65680761a5473.illinois.edu
Title Assistant Professor

William King

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Email wpk@nospam65680761a62f3.illinois.edu
Title Ralph A. Andersen Endowed Chair, Co-Director Illinois Advanced Manufacturing Institute

Chia-Fon Lee

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Email cflee@nospam65680761a6ec8.illinois.edu
Title Professor

Nenad Miljkovic

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Email nmiljkov@nospam65680761a7057.illinois.edu
Title Professor, Kritzer Faculty Scholar
Director
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center

SungWoo Nam

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Email swnam@nospam65680761a8023.illinois.edu
Title Associate Professor

Chenhui Shao

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Email chshao@nospam65680761a9c7c.illinois.edu
Title Assistant Professor

Kyle Smith

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Email kcsmith@nospam65680761ab4ec.illinois.edu
Title Assistant Professor

Nancy R. Sottos

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Email n-sottos@nospam65680761ac5b1.illinois.edu
Title Professor

Ke Tang

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Email ketang@nospam65680761ad26c.illinois.edu
Title Research Associate Professor

Surya Pratap Vanka

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Email spvanka@nospam65680761add8d.illinois.edu
Title Research Professor, Professor Emeritus

Sophie Wang

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Email wangxf@nospam65680761aeb29.illinois.edu
Title Research Assistant Professor

Hui Zhao

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Email huizhao@nospam65680761afb56.illinois.edu
Title Adjunct Research Assistant Professor

Postdoctoral Research Associates

Muhammad Jahidul Hoque

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Email mjhoque2@nospam65680761b125e.illinois.edu

Past Postdoctoral Research

Francesco Botticella

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Email fbott@nospam65680761b6036.illinois.edu

Jiaqi Li

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Email lijiaqi@nospam65680761b6904.illinois.edu

Jun Li

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Email junli9@nospam65680761b72eb.illinois.edu

Longnan Li

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Email longnan@nospam65680761b7bb5.illinois.edu

Soumyadip (Deep) Sett

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Email ssett3@nospam65680761b849c.illinois.edu

Shantanu Shahane

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Email sshahan2@nospam65680761b8da6.illinois.edu

Xiao Yan

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Email yanx16@nospam65680761b963c.illinois.edu

Graduate Students

Md Muntasir Alam

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Email mmalam3@nospam65680761bbb79.illinois.edu

Ghassan Arissi

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Email garissi@nospam65680761bc423.illinois.edu

Jiong Chen

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Email jiongc2@nospam65680761bccf4.illinois.edu

Yiyang Chen

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Email yiyangc5@nospam65680761bd5b9.illinois.edu

Kaushik Chettiar

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Email kc63@nospam65680761bef43.illinois.edu

Mohamed Shaaban Eissa

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Email meissa2@nospam65680761bfd27.illinois.edu

Max M. Friestad

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Email friesta2@nospam65680761c0646.illinois.edu

Wuchen Fu

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Email wuchenf2@nospam65680761c0f26.illinois.edu

Vivek Sastry Garimella

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Email viveksg2@nospam65680761c20c2.illinois.edu

Dalia Ghaddar

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Email ghaddar2@nospam65680761c29a0.illinois.edu

Yashraj Gurumukhi

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Email yashraj2@nospam65680761c326d.illinois.edu

Muhammad Haider

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Email mhaider4@nospam65680761c3b94.illinois.edu

Syed Angkan Haider

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Email shaider4@nospam65680761c499a.illinois.edu

Sugun Tej Inampudi

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Email sti2@nospam65680761c52de.illinois.edu

Jalal Inanlu

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Email minanlu2@nospam65680761c5e11.illinois.edu

Tanveer Islam Joy

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Email tijoy2@nospam65680761c682c.illinois.edu

Minwoong Kang

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Email mk16@nospam65680761c7aae.illinois.edu

Siavash Khodakarami

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Email siavash4@nospam65680761c847e.illinois.edu

Amr Kotb

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Email amrmk2@nospam65680761c8d12.illinois.edu

Rich McClure

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Email ram6@nospam65680761c95cd.illinois.edu

Alexander Pagano

Email apagano2@nospam65680761c96c1.illinois.edu

Purav Patel

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Email puravp2@nospam65680761c9fa5.illinois.edu

Hongliang Qian

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Email hqian7@nospam65680761ca836.illinois.edu

Bakhshish Preet Singh

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Email bpsingh2@nospam65680761cb0dd.illinois.edu

Tarandeep Singh Thukral

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Email thukral3@nospam65680761cb9bd.illinois.edu

Kevin Uvodich

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Email kevinuvodich@nospam65680761cc236.gmail.com

Xin Wang

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Email xinw8@nospam65680761ccaae.illinois.edu

Yupeng Wang

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Email yupeng2@nospam65680761cd398.illinois.edu

Mohammad Arafat Zaman

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Email maz3@nospam65680761cdd42.illinois.edu

Jiayi Zhang

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Email jiayiz19@nospam65680761ce0f7.illinois.edu

Yingyue Zhang

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Email yingyue2@nospam65680761ce963.illinois.edu

Undergraduate Students

Past Undergraduate Students

Tianrui Cai

Email tchai2@nospam65680761cfe5f.illinois.edu

Kirk Fortelka

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Email fortelk2@nospam65680761d0785.illinois.edu

Aditi Kalle

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Email akalle@nospam65680761d1000.illinois.edu

Maury Lira

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Email mauryl2@nospam65680761d3413.illinois.edu

Junqi Ma

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Email junqima2@nospam65680761d3ce8.illinois.edu

Kate Malmsbury

Email malmsbu2@nospam65680761d3dbb.illinois.edu

Aaron Qiu

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Email haoyunq2@nospam65680761d4672.illinois.edu

Visiting Scholars

Chun Han Li

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Email chunhan@nospam65680761d5a94.illinois.edu

Yongmei Xuan

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Email yongmei@nospam65680761d63c2.illinois.edu

Past Visiting Scholars

Vladimir Cernicin

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Email cernicin@nospam65680761d8c7b.illinois.edu

Zhengshu Dai

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Email zsdai@nospam65680761d9585.illinois.edu

Deok Huh

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Email deokhuh@nospam65680761d9e5e.illinois.edu

Jinsung Kim

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Email jinsung@nospam65680761da70e.illinois.edu

Klaus Lambers

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Title Professor, Doctor - Specialisation: Thermal System Engineering for Renewable Energy
Department Cologne University of Applied Sciences Germany, Faculty of Process Engineering, Energy and Mechanical Systems

Vladimir Muncan

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Email vmuncan@nospam65680761dc1cd.illinois.edu

Heewoong Park

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Email heewoong@nospam65680761dcb20.illinois.edu

Wei Su

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Email weisu@nospam65680761dd73e.illinois.edu

Dandong Wang

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Email darren20@nospam65680761de0a0.illinois.edu

Xinting Wang

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Email xtwang@nospam65680761dea08.illinois.edu

Juan Xiao

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Email xjuan007@nospam65680761df2fa.illinois.edu

Xiaoxiao Xu

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Email xuxiao19@nospam65680761df658.illinois.edu

Tokitaka Yoshida

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Email tokitaka@nospam65680761df99b.illinois.edu

Hongmei Zhu

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Email zhuhm@nospam65680761e0227.illinois.edu

Past Graduate Students

Vaibhav Sunilkumar Agarwal

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Email va15@nospam65680761e1e73.illinois.edu

Kalyan Satyadeep Boyina

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Email boyina2@nospam65680761e2760.illinois.edu

Bruno Yuji Kimura de Carvalho

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Email brunoykc@nospam65680761e2fd2.illinois.edu

Hyeongyun Cha

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Email cha10@nospam65680761e3906.illinois.edu

Amir Chavoshi

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Email chavosh2@nospam65680761e41f2.illinois.edu

Min Che

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Email minche2@nospam65680761e4a9f.illinois.edu

Abdel Rahman D Khaleel Farraj

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Email afarraj2@nospam65680761e5311.illinois.edu

Thomas Peter Foulkes

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Email foulkes2@nospam65680761e5bcd.illinois.edu

Tarek Z Gebrael

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Email gebrael2@nospam65680761e648e.illinois.edu

Hongqing Jin

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Email hj8@nospam65680761e714b.illinois.edu

Wenzhe Li

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Email liwz310@nospam65680761e79fc.illinois.edu

Zishen Liu

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Email zishen2@nospam65680761e82ad.illinois.edu

Johannes Kohler Mendizabal

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Email jkohler3@nospam65680761e8b8d.illinois.edu

Mina Michel Kamel Mikhaeel

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Email mikhaeel@nospam65680761e943d.illinois.edu

Mohamed Hatem Abdelsadek Ahmed Mousa

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Email mousa2@nospam65680761e9caa.illinois.edu

Wentao Ni

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Email wni5@nospam65680761ea529.illinois.edu

Kazi Fazle Rabbi

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Email kazif2@nospam65680761eadf6.illinois.edu

Yuchen Shen

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Email yshen51@nospam65680761eb698.illinois.edu

Upot Nithin Vinod

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Email upot2@nospam65680761ebf0c.illinois.edu

Yufang Yao

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Email yufangy@nospam65680761ec969.illinois.edu

Wenying Zhang

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Email wenying3@nospam65680761ed213.illinois.edu

Yuheng (Frank) Zhang

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Email zhang367@nospam65680761edaaf.illinois.edu

Zhichao Zhang

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Email zzhng153@nospam65680761ee334.illinois.edu

Hanyang Zhao

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Email hzhao27@nospam65680761eeba6.illinois.edu

Staff

Nenad Miljkovic

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Email nmiljkov@nospam65680761ef589.illinois.edu
Title Professor, Kritzer Faculty Scholar
Director
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center

Previous Center Directors

Clark Bullard

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Email bullard@nospam65680761f0ae2.illinois.edu
Title Research Professor, Professor Emeritus
Founding Director

Stefan Elbel

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Email elbel@nospam65680761f1465.illinois.edu
Title Research Assistant Professor
Co- Director Emeritus
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center

Pega Hrnjak

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Title Stoecker Faculty Fellow, Distinguished Research Professor
Director Emeritus
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center

Tony Jacobi

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Email a-jacobi@nospam65680761f1eb3.illinois.edu
Title Department Head, Richard W. Kritzer Distinguished Professor

Students

Saif Khan Alen

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Title Product Development Engineer
Department Brazeway, Adrian, Michigan, USA

Patrick Y. Birbarah

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Title Thermal Systems Engineer
Department Trane - Ingersoll Rand, Lacrosse, Wisconsin, USA

Brandon Field

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Title Associate Professor - Teaching
Department University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, Indiana, USA

Brian Eldredge

Title Application Engineer
Department Woodward in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

William Allen III Davies

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Title Senior Associate
Department Exponent, Thermal Sciences Team, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Stefan Elbel

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Title Research Assistant Professor & Associate Director at ACRC, and Chief Engineer at CTS
Department Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA, and Creative Thermal Solutions, Inc., Urbana, Illinois, USA

Emerson Escobar Nunez

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Title Head Department of Energy and Mechanics
Department Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Cali-Valle, Colombia

Lili Feng

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Title Mechanical Engineer
Department Tesla, Fremont and Palo Alto, California, USA

Hongming Ge

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Title General Manager - Asia
Department Mohawk Industries, Shanghai, China

Jing He

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Title Climate Control Engineer
Department Ford Motor Company

Matthew Heun

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Title Professor of Engineering
Department Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Yu Kang

Title Display Hardware Engineer
Department Apple Inc.

Hyun Jin Kim

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Title Postdoctoral Scholar
Department Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

Paul Krause

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Title Project Manager
Department JR Automation Systems, Holland, Michigan, USA

Neal Lawrence

Title Research Engineer
Department Creative Thermal Solutions, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA

Alen Milosevic

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Title Senior Technical Specialist, HVAC Systems
Department Navistar Inc., Lisle, Illinois, USA

Victor Nino

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Title Manager, Virtual Technology Group
Department Modine Manufacturing Co.

Steffen Peuker

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Title The James L. Bartlett, Junior Assistant Professor - HVAC&R Director - Cal Poly HVAC&R Industrial Advisory Board Liaison
Department Mechanical Engineering Department, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California, USA

Raymond Rite

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Title R&D Engineer
Department Ingersoll Rand/Trane Residential

Mark Smith

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Title Lecturer of Finance
Department University of Illinois, Gies College of Business

Shannon Stott

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Title Assistant Professor
Department Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Center for Engineering in Medicine

Daniel Tallitsch

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Title General Counsel
Department Q’Straint, Law Practice

Eduardo Torrealba

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Title Hardware Entrepreneur, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
Department Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Jiange Xiao

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Title Law Student
Department New York University

Jiu Xu

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Title Thermal Engineer
Department Facebook

Lihan Xu (Nicole)

Title Project Manager
Department Sanhua International Inc.

Cheng-Min Yang

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Title Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

David Yashar

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Title Deputy Chief, Energy and Environment Division
Department Engineering Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Winston Zhang

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Title President & CEO
Department Novark Technologies, Inc.

Jingwei Zhu

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Title Thermo/Aero Engineering Intern
Department Tesla