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Dr. Yitung Chen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV). Currently, he is also the Director of Center for Energy Research (CER) at UNLV. He is an ASME Fellow. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Utah in 1991. He has extensive technical backgrounds of mechanical engineering, nuclear engineering, and chemical engineering. His academic and industrial experiences in numerical and experimental thermal-fluid sciences cover multidisciplinary areas of mechanical, nuclear, biomedical, environmental, and chemical engineering. His professional and scholarly endeavors are to apply the multidisciplinary advanced experimental and computational group includes fluid dynamics, heat transfer, mass transfer, computational mathematics and physics, electrochemical, renewable energy, and material sciences and engineering in order to solve the multi-scale and multi- physics engineering, science, and energy problems.