Rate My Professor Qing Hao

Qing Hao is a Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Craig M. Berge Faculty Fellow at the University of Arizona. He received his B.E. degree in thermal engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 2001, M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004, and Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2010. His Ph.D. thesis, supervised by Gang Chen, developed nanostructured thermoelectric materials for refrigeration and power generation, leading to a co-first-author paper in Science (2008) with over 6,600 citations and the R&D 100 Award as a team member. Post-Ph.D., he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at MIT on novel Na-ion batteries under Gerbrand Ceder from 2010 to 2011. He joined the University of Arizona in August 2011 as an Assistant Professor in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, was promoted to Associate Professor in May 2017, and to Professor thereafter.

His research focuses on nanoscale energy transport and applications in advanced materials and nano-electronic devices, including heat transport in Li-ion batteries, high-power electronics, boiling and condensation, thermal insulation materials, thermoelectrics, and engineering applications of graphene and other 2D materials. Qing Hao has earned numerous honors, including the NSF CAREER Award (2017) for grain boundary thermal studies, AFOSR Young Investigator Award (2015) for graphene research, Fellow of the Engineered Science Society (2021), Dean's Fellow (2020), JSPS Short-Term Invitational Fellowship (2020), and Award for Excellence at the Student Interface (2017). Key publications include "High-thermoelectric performance of nanostructured bismuth antimony telluride bulk alloys" (Science, 2008), "Enhanced thermoelectric figure-of-merit in p-type nanostructured bismuth antimony tellurium alloys" (Advanced Materials, 2008), "Highly Regulatable Heat Conductance of Graphene–Sericin Hybrid for Responsive Textiles" (Advanced Functional Materials, 2022), and "In-plane thermal conductivity measurements of Si thin films under a uniaxial tensile strain" (Journal of Applied Physics, 2023). His contributions have advanced phonon transport modeling, thermoelectric efficiency, and thermal management in emerging technologies.