Ying Sun (mechanical engineer)

Ying Sun is a Chinese-American mechanical engineer whose research interests include interface and colloid science, thermal fluids, and multiphase flow.^[1] She is Herman Schneider Professor of Mechanical Engineering and head of the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the University of Cincinnati.^[2]

Education and career

Sun graduated from Tsinghua University in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in thermal engineering. She went to the University of Iowa for graduate study in mechanical engineering, earning a master's degree in 2001 and completing her Ph.D. in 2006.^[3]

She began her academic career as an assistant professor at Binghamton University;^[2] Zhiting Tian, a master's student at Binghamton at that time, has named her as a mentor.^[4] She moved to Drexel University in 2009, where she became Hess Family Endowed Chair Professor.^[2] In 2019 she began a term as a program director at the National Science Foundation, in the Thermal Transport Processes Program.^[2][5] She moved to her current position at the University of Cincinnati in 2022.^[2]

Recognition

Sun was elected as an ASME Fellow in 2020.^[1][6] In 2024, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, "for seminal contributions to both the development of novel algorithms for multiscale modeling of interfacial and multiphase flows, from the atomistic and mesoscale to the continuum level, and experimental methods with multiple forms of microscopy for characterizing short-lived interfacial dynamics".^[7]

References

1. MEM's Ying Sun Named ASME Fellow, Drexel University College of Engineering, September 10, 2020, retrieved 2023-09-01
2. Rao, Anya (June 6, 2022), "UC names new head of mechanical and materials engineering department", UC News, University of Cincinnati, retrieved 2023-09-01
3. "Expert Profile: Ying Sun", Research directory, University of Cincinnati, retrieved 2023-09-01
4. Kocher, Chris (November 25, 2019), "Alumni Spotlight: Zhiting Tian, MS '09", BingUNews, Binghamton University, retrieved 2023-08-31
5. Plump, Wendy (July 18, 2019), MEM's Ying Sun Goes to Washington, Drexel University College of Engineering, retrieved 2023-09-01
6. All Fellows (PDF), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2022, retrieved 2023-09-01
7. Division of Fluid Dynamics Fellows, American Physical Society, retrieved 2024-11-26

External links

• Complex Fluids & Multiphase Transport Lab
• Ying Sun publications indexed by Google Scholar