Zheng Wins 2024 Raymond Viskanta Award
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng is the recipient of the 2024 Raymond Viskanta Award, one of the highest honors for faculty in the field of radiative heat transfer. He received this esteemed award at the 5th International Workshop on Nano-Micro Thermal Radiation (NanoRad 2024) in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. He also delivered an invited presentation, “Cost-effective Functional Energy Materials for Thermal Radiative Applications,” at the event.
This prestigious award is named after Professor Raymond Viskanta of Purdue University to honor his profound contributions to the field of radiative heat Ttansfer since 1950s. He was a W. F. M. Goss Professor Emeritus of Engineering at Purdue and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. Viskanta was legendary in the field, with more than 500 journal publications and 200 keynote papers and invited lectures.