Assoc. Prof. Jiyun Zhao, City University of Hong Kong, China

Research Area: 

Nuclear safety, thermal and fluids engineering, and battery energy storage systems

Research Experience:

Dr. Jiyun Zhao is an associate professor in Department of mechanical engineering at City University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD degree in nuclear science and engineering from MIT in 2005, and his master degree from Tsinghua University in 1999. He was a senior engineer working at AREVA NP North America Headquarters located in Lynchburg, Virginia from 2005 to 2010. He was appointed as an assistant professor in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore from 2010 to 2014. His research interests are: nuclear safety, thermal and fluids engineering, and battery energy storage systems. He had published more than 100 papers in the leading journals and conferences. He received Best Paper Award from Progress in Nuclear Energy, ESI highly cited papers etc. He is serving as an Advisory Editor for Annals of Nuclear Energy, one of the leading journals in the nuclear engineering. He is a member of ASME and American Nuclear Society.