Prof. Yong Shi gained his Bachelor degree in Thermal and Power Engineering and Master degree in Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics both at the Xi'an Jiaotong University. He was awarded his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Before joining the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC), he worked at the Chongqing University, University of Melbourne and Los Alamos National Laboratory. 

From 2012 to 2015, Prof. Shi was appointed as the founding head of Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, leading the establishment of the courses of "Mechanical Engineering" and "Product Design and Manufacturing" and accreditation of their BEng degrees by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and Institute of Engineering Designers, United Kingdom. During his time at the UNNC, Prof. Shi was also a core member of several provincial key disciplines, and a Zhejiang provincial research center. The module of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics 2, which he taught and managed, was awarded as Provincial First-Class Undergraduate Module in Zhejiang. Currently, Prof. Shi is Head of Research Group of Fluids and Thermal Engineering at the UNNC.

Prof. Shi's academic interests are in the broad area of micro/nanoscale fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer, multiscale and multiphase computational modelling and low-carbon energy technologies. In particular, he has been interested in recently

Micro- and Nanoscale Fluid Transport, including 

• bounded noncontinuum gas flows at nanoscale;
• heat and mass transfer in random micro-and nanoporous media;
• multiphase and multicomponent flow and mass transfer in microfluidics in biomedical applications

Computational Modeling, including 

• lattice Boltzmann method;
• (re)construction and characterization techniques of random porous structures;
• hybrid multi-scale computational algorithms. 

Low-carbon Energy Technologies and Thermal System Design, including  

• thermal management for Li-ion batteries in electric vehicles and drones;
• system design and structure optimization of thermoelectric generators;
• optimization of multiple energy systems and heat-exchangers networks.

Over the years, Prof. Shi has developed extensive collaboration with researchers worldwide. He published articles and/or co-supervised PhD/PGR students with his collaborators from a variety of domestic institutions (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering CAS, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology CAS, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute CAS et al.) and overseas universities (University of Melbourne, Australian National University, California Institute of Technology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of Nottingham UK, Imperial College London, University College Dublin, Dalarna University et al).

For his journal articles and citations, please see Prof. Shi's research profiles at Google Scholar, ResearchGate and ORCiD.

Membership

• Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Member, American Physical Society
• Full Member, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society 

Conference Engagement

• Session Chair and Member of the Technical Programming Committee, the 16th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics and Editorial Board of Applied Thermal Engineering, virtual conference, Aug 8-10, 2022.
• Session Chair and Member of the Technical Programming Committee, the 15th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics and Editorial Board of Applied Thermal Engineering, virtual conference, July 26-28, 2021.
• Organizing Committee Member and Session Chair, International Symposium on Numerical Methods in Heat and Mass Transfer 2020, Ningbo, China, June 24-26, 2020.
• Session co-chair, 2nd International Conference on Energy and Power, Sydney, Australia, December 13-15, 2018.
• Local organizer, 3rd International Symposium of Fluids and Thermal Engineering, Ningbo, China, November 17-19, 2017.
• Plenary chair and Session chair, 3rd International Symposium of Fluids and Thermal Engineering, Ningbo, China, November 17-19, 2017.
• Session chair, International Symposium of Heat Transfer and Heat Power Cycles, Nottingham, UK, June 27 – 30, 2016.
• Session chair，International Conference of Microfluidics, Nanofluidics and Lab-on-a-Chip, Dalian, China, June 10 – 12, 2016.
• Session co-organizer, ASME 2015 Power & Energy Conference, San Diego, USA, June 28 – July 2, 2015.
• Organizing committee member, International Workshop on Sustainable Energy, Ningbo, China, June 5, 2014.

Other Activities

• Correspondence reviewer for NSFC applications.
• Reviewer for provincial and municipal research grants.
• Reviewer for Ningbo science and technology progress awards,  Ningbo key schemes for industrial innovation.
• Reviewer for sampling inspection of UG FYPs. 
• Reviewer for journals, including Physics of Fluids, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Applied Thermal Engineering, Energy, Applied Energy, Fuel, Chemical Engineering Journal, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Review, Journal of Power Sources, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Sciences, Journal of Energy Storage, Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, International Journal of Electric Power and Energy System, International Journal of Thermal Science, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Desalination, Langmuir et al.