2013-2018, Ph.D., Purdue University
2009-2013, B.S., Huazhong University of Science and Technology

2023.6 – Present, Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology
2018.12 – 2023.5, Postdoc, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Thermal management of microelectronics
Micro/nanoscale thermal sensing and imaging
Thermal solution for energy storage devices
Phonon engineering in quantum devices

Travel Grants，Purdue University，2018
Graduate School Summer Research Grants，Purdue University，2018

[1] Y. Zeng, B. Zhang, Y. Fu, F. Shen, Q. Zheng, D. Chalise, R. Miao, S. Kaur, S. D. Lubner, M. C. Tucker, V. Battaglia, C. Dames, and R. S. Prasher, Extreme fast charging of commercial Li-ion batteries via combined thermal switching and self-heating approaches, Nat. Commun. 14 (1), 3329 (2023).
[2] Y. Zeng, D. Chalise, Y. Fu, J. Schaadt, S. Kaur, V. Battaglia, S. D. Lubner, and R. S. Prasher, Operando Spatial Mapping of Lithium Concentration Using Thermal-Wave Sensing, Joule 5, 2195 (2021). (Free Featured Article; Spotlighted in Trends in Chemistry)
[3] Y. Zeng, D. Chalise, S. D. Lubner, S. Kaur, and R. S. Prasher, A Review of Thermal Physics and Management inside Lithium-Ion Batteries for High Energy Density and Fast Charging, Energy Storage Mater. 41, 264 (2021).
[4] Y. Zeng, C.-L. Lo, S. Zhang, Z. Chen, and A. Marconnet, Dynamically Tunable Thermal Transport in Polycrystalline Graphene by Strain Engineering, Carbon 158, 63 (2020).
[5] Y. Zeng, T. Li, Y. Yao, T. Li, L. Hu, and A. Marconnet, Thermally Conductive Reduced Graphene Oxide Thin Films for Extreme Temperature Sensors, Adv. Funct. Mater. 29, 1901388 (2019).
[6] Y. Zeng and A. Marconnet, Reevaluating the Suppression Function for Phonon Transport in Nanostructures by Monte Carlo Techniques, J. Appl. Phys. 125, 034301 (2019).
[7] Y. Zeng and A. Marconnet, Tuning the Anisotropy of In-Plane Thermal Conduction in Thin Films by Modulating Thickness, Phys. Rev. Appl. 9, 011001 (2018).
[8] Y. Zeng and A. Marconnet, A Direct Differential Method for Measuring Thermal Conductivity of Thin Films, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 88, 044901 (2017).
[9] Q. Zheng, D. Chalise, M. Jia, Y. Zeng, M. Zeng, M. Saeidi-Javash, A. N. M. Tanvir, G. Uahengo, S. Kaur, J. E. Garay, T. Luo, Y. Zhang, R. S. Prasher, and C. Dames, Structured Illumination with Thermal Imaging (SI-TI): A Dynamically Reconfigurable Metrology for Parallelized Thermal Transport Characterization, Appl. Phys. Rev. 9, 021411 (2022). (Scilight; Featured Article)
[10] T. Li, A. D. Pickel, Y. Yao, Y. Chen, Y. Zeng, S. D. Lacey, Y. Li, Y. Wang, J. Dai, Y. Wang, B. Yang, M. S. Fuhrer, A. Marconnet, C. Dames, D. H. Drew, and L. Hu, Thermoelectric Properties and Performance of Flexible Reduced Graphene Oxide Films up to 3,000 K, Nat. Energy 3, 148 (2018).