Xiaojia Wang
Xiaojia "XJ" Wang is a Chinese-American mechanical engineer whose research studies energy transport at the nanoscale, and particularly thermal conductivity of thin films, polymers, and nanomaterials, using techniques including ultrafast laser pumping and time-domain thermoreflectance. She is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota, where she heads the Micro/Nanoscale Thermal Transport Laboratory.[1]
Education and career
Wang studied thermal engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University, receiving a bachelor's degree in 2004 and a master's degree in 2007.[2] She completed a Ph.D. in 2011, in heat transfer and mechanical engineering, at Georgia Tech.[1] Her dissertation, Study of the radiative properties of aligned carbon nanotubes and silver nanorods, was supervised by Zhuomin Zhang.[3]
After postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, she joined the University of Minnesota as Benjamin Mayhugh Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering in 2014. She added affiliations with the departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering in 2016 and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science in 2020. She was promoted to associate professor in 2020,[1] and to full professor in 2025.[4]
Recognition
Wang was named as an ASME Fellow in 2025.[5]
References
- 1 2 3 "Xiaojia "XJ" Wang", Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering, retrieved 2025-10-28
- ↑ Her faculty profile states these dates as 2004 and 2007; the vita in her Ph.D. thesis states them as 2000 and 2004, but may be referring to start dates rather than degree dates.
- ↑ Wang, Xiaojia (2011), Study of the radiative properties of aligned carbon nanotubes and silver nanorods (Ph.D. thesis), Georgia Tech
- ↑ "Xiaojia Wang", ORCiD, archived from the original on 2025-06-26, retrieved 2025-10-28
- ↑ "Xiaojia Wang", ASME Fellows 2025, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, retrieved 2025-10-28
External links
- Micro/Nanoscale Thermal Transport Laboratory
- Xiaojia Wang publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Living people
- Chinese emigrants to the United States
- Chinese mechanical engineers
- Chinese women engineers
- American women engineers
- Women mechanical engineers
- 21st-century American mechanical engineers
- Xi'an Jiaotong University alumni
- Georgia Tech alumni
- University of Minnesota faculty
- Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers