Hao-Hsiang Liao

Nanoscale Energy Transport Laboratory e-mail: abgrhy@r.postjobfree.com

Department of Mechanical Engineering Phone: 901-***-****

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA 24061

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, January 2007 – December 2012

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, GPA=3.75/4.0

Dissertation Title: Thermal and thermoelectric properties of nanostructured materials and interfaces

Research Advisor: Prof. Scott T. Huxtable

Dissertation Committee Members: T. E. Diller, K. Meehan, M. R. Paul, and G. Khodaparast

2nd B.S. Mechanical Engineering, August 2004 – December 2006

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, GPA= 3.6/4.0

Undergraduate Research Advisor: Prof. Peter K. Liaw

1st B.S. Material Science & Engineering, June 1998 – June 2001

I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Graduate Research Assistant (GRA), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, January 2007 – Present

• Designed and built an automated system for simultaneous measurements of electrical conductivity and

Seebeck coefficient at high temperature in vaccum.

• Assembled time-domain thermoreflectance system for measurements of thermal conductivity and

interface thermal conductance for thin films and nanostructured materials

• Extensive hands-on experience with femtosecond Ti:Sapphire laser systems (Spectra-Physics Mai Tai

and Coherent Mira 900-F systems) and associated optical components

• Microfabrication and cleanroom experience (e-beam evaporation, profilometry, ESEM, four point

probe resistivity systems, van der Pauw measurements)

• Specific work includes thermal property measurements on Bulk Metallic Glasses, GaN, Ni-Fe, Co-P,

thermoelectric materials

Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, August 2004 – August

2006

• Hands-on experience in the fabrication of ultrafine-grained materials using equal-channel-angular

processing (ECAP)

• Heat transfer modeling on fractured bulk metallic glasses

• Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Training: Concepts, Modeling and Applications using Abacus software,

Cleveland, OH

• Summer Cooperative Research Program in Material Science and Engineering at Oak Ridge National

Laboratory (ORNL), Tennessee

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, Spring 2008 and Spring, Summer

and Fall 2010

• GTA for the Mechanical Engineering Junior Lab course (ME 4005)

• Independently instructed 2 lab sections per week (20 students per section) and graded student reports

• Assisted in the development of several new lab experiments and the conversion of previous labs to be

compatible with a new National Instruments data acquisition system (myDAQ)

HONORS, AWARDS, AND MEMBERSHIPS

• Mechanical Engineering Department Fellow, 2010

• Active Membership of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

• Active Membership of Materials Research Society (MRS)

• Pi Tau Sigma, University of Tennessee Tau Eata (National Mechanical Engineering Honor Society),

Fall 2005 - Present

Hao-Hsiang Liao

Nanoscale Energy Transport Laboratory e-mail: abgrhy@r.postjobfree.com

Department of Mechanical Engineering Phone: 901-***-****

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA 24061

Tau Beta Pi, Alpha of Tennessee (The Engineering Honor Society), Spring 2005 - Present

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SOFTWARE SKILLS

Mathematica, MATLAB, Abacus, Finite Element Analysis, Autodesk Inventor, Autocad, LabVIEW

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

• H.H. Liao, G. Y. Wang, P. K. Liaw, S. T. Huxtable, “Reduction of Thermal Conductivity in Bulk

Metallic Glasses with High Mass Elements,” (to be submitted in Spring, 2013).

• H. H. Liao, G. Balasubramanian, N. C. Shukla, C. H. Wu, L. Li, P. K. Liaw, I. K. Puri, S. T. Huxtable,

“Thermal Conductivity of Nano-crystalline Ni-18% Fe Alloy” (to be submitted in December, 2012)

• N. C. Shukla, H. H. Liao, L. Guido, and S. T. Huxtable, “Thermal Conductivity of MOCVD grown

GaN” (to be submitted in December, 2012)

• N. C. Shukla, H.H. Liao, J. T Abiade, M. Murayama, D. Kumar and S. T. Huxtable, “Thermal

Transport in Composites of Self-assembled Nickel Nanoparticles Embedded in Yttria Stabilized

Zirconia”, Applied Physics Letters 94 (15): 151913-1 to 151913-3, Apr. 2009.

• N. C. Shukla, H.H. Liao, J. T Abiade, F. X. Liu, P. K. Liaw and S. T. Huxtable, “Thermal

Conductivity and Interface Thermal Conductance of Amorphous and Crystalline Bulk Metallic

Glasses”, Applied Physics Letters 94 (8): 081912-1 to 081912-3, Feb. 2009.

• W. H. Jiang, F. X. Liu, H. H. Liao, H. Choo, P. K. Liaw, B. J. Edwards and B. Khomami,

“Temperature Increases Caused by Shear Banding in As-Cast and Relaxed Zr-Based Bulk-Metallic

Glasses in Compression”, Journal Materials Research 23 (11): 2967-2974, Nov. 2008.

• W. H. Jiang, H. H. Liao, F. X. Liu, H. Choo, and P. K. Liaw, “Rate-Dependent Temperature Increases

in Shear Bands of a Bulk-Metallic Glass”, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A-Physical

Metallurgy and Materials Science, 39A (8): 1822-1830, July 2008.

• G. J. Fan, H. H. Liao, H. Choo, P. K. Liaw, N. Mara, A. V. Sergueeva, A. K. Mukherjee, and E. J.

Lavernia, “Fracture of a Commercial Zr41.2Ti13.8Cu12.5Ni10.0Be22.5 Bulk-Metallic Glass”, Metallurgical

and Materials Transactions A-Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science 38A (9): 2001-2005, Sep.

2007.

• L. Wu, G. M. Stoica, H. H. Liao, S. R. Agnew, E. A. Payzant, G. Wang, D. E. Fieldon, L. Chen, and P.

K. Liaw, “Fatigue-Property Enhancement of Magnesium Alloy, AZ31B, through Equal-Channel-

Angular Pressing”, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A-Physical Metallurgy and Materials

Science 38A (13): 2283-2289, Sep. 2007.

• W. H. Jiang, F. X. Liu, H. H. Liao, H. Choo, and P. K. Liaw, “In-Situ Thermographic Observation on

Compression of a Relaxed Zr-Based Bulk-Metallic Glass”, Journal Materials Research 22 (2): 368-

373, Feb. 2007.

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