Ankur Jain Assistant Professor and Director Microscale Thermophysics Lab Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department University of Texas, Arlington

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Office: Engineering Lab Building, Rm 203 | Phone: (817) 272-9338 | Email: jaina[at]uta[dot]edu | Lab Website: Microscale Thermophysics Lab |

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CV

Employment History

• Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department , University of Texas, Arlington (Sep 2011 - present)
• Member of Technical Staff, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) , Austin, TX (Feb 2011 - Aug 2011)
• Sr. Research Engineer, Molecular Imprints Inc., Austin, TX (2009 - 2011)
• Sr. Staff Scientist, Freescale Semiconductor, Austin, TX (2006 - 2009)

Education

• Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University (2007)
• M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University (2003)
• B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, India (2001)

Honors and Awards

• AFOSR Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2013.
• ONR Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2012.
• Stanford Graduate Fellowship.
• Institute Silver Medal for highest GPA in the graduating class in the department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT, Delhi, 2001.
• Summer Research Fellow, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India, May-July 2000

Research interests

• Microscale thermal-fluid transport
• Energy conversion microsystems
• Multiscale modeling of thermal management in microelectronics and MEMS
• Three-dimensional integrated circuits (3D ICs)
• Thermal engineering of biological microsystems

Representative publications

• Choobineh, L., Jain, A., 'Analytical Solution for Steady-State and Transient Temperature Fields in Vertically Integrated Three-Dimensional Integrated Circuits (3D ICs)', IEEE Trans Components & Packaging Technologies, in press, 2012.
• Javed, A., Iqbal, S.M., Jain, A., 'Microheater platform for selective detachment of DNA', Applied Physics Letters, 101(9), pp. 093707, 2012.
• Jain, A., Goodson, K.E. 'Measurement of thermal conductivity and heat capacity of free-standing thin films using the 3-omega method', ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, 130(10), pp. 1-7, 2008.
• Jain, A., Goodson, K.E., 'Thermal microdevices for biological and biomedical applications', Journal of Thermal Biology, 36(4), pp. 209-218, 2011.
• Kodama, T., Jain, A., Goodson, K.E. 'Heat conduction through a DNA-Gold composite', Nano Letters, 9, pp. 2005-2009, 2009.
  

Funding Support for Research and Outreach Activities

• Air Force Office of Sponsored Research (AFOSR) Summer Faculty Fellowship Program, 2013.
• Workshop Funding, Indo-US Science and Technology Forum, A. Jain (PI), 2013.
• National Science Foundation, 'GOALI: Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Thermal Transport in Three-Dimensional Integrated Circuits (3D ICs)', A. Jain (PI), D. Agonafer (co-PI), Award # CBET-1236370, 2012.
• Office of Navy Research (ONR) Summer Faculty Research Program, 2012.
• UT Arlington Research Enhancement Grant, 2012.