Zhiting Tian
Professor
ASME Fellow
Eugene A. Leinroth Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Cornell University
Affiliation
- Executive Committee Member, Cornell NanoScale Facility (CNF)
- Faculty Fellow, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future
- Faculty Member, Kavli Institute at Cornell (KIC) for Nanoscale Science
- Graduate Faculty, Cornell Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)
- Graduate Faculty, Cornell Chemical Engineering
- Faculty Member, Cornell Energy Systems Institute (CESI)
- Faculty Member, Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR)
Education
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, MIT (2014)
- M.S., Mechanical Engineering, State University of New York at Binghamton (2009)
- B.E., Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, China (2007)
Selected Awards & Honors
- DARPA Director’s Fellowship (2025)
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)(2025)
- Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Award (2024)
- DARPA Young Faculty Award(2023)
- DoD DURIP Award (2023)
- JSPS Invitational Fellowship for Research in Japan (2022)
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Award (2022)
- NASA Early Stage Innovations Award (2021)
- Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship (2021)
- ASME Fellow (2019)
- ACS Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering (PMSE) Young Investigator Award (2019)
- College of Engineering Faculty Fellow, Virginia Tech (2018)
- Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award (2018)
- NSF CAREER Award (2017)
- ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Award (2017)
- College of Engineering Outstanding New Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech (2017)
- 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award (2017)
- College of Engineering Undergraduate Research Advisor Award, Virginia Tech (2016)
- Wunsch Foundation Silent Hoist and Crane Award for Academic Excellence, MIT (2014)
- Graduate Women of Excellence, MIT (2013)
Experience
- Associate Professor, Cornell University (2020-2025)
- Assistant Professor, Cornell University (2018-2020)
- Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech (2014-2018)
Chen Li
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University
August Brueggemann
B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University
B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University
Joyce Christiansen-Salameh
M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University
B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Davis
M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University
B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Davis
Samuel Kielar
B.A. in Chemistry and Music, Northwestern University
B.A. in Chemistry and Music, Northwestern University
Jiyoung Kim
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University
Kevin Kong
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin Madison
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin Madison
Gangchen Ren
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University
Amelia Schaeffer
B.A. in Chemistry-Physics, Reed College
B.A. in Chemistry-Physics, Reed College
Simon Shi
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
Lindsay Wright
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Rice University
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Rice University
Haojie Rao
BS in Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Irvine
BS in Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Irvine
Boyuan Xiao
BS in Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
BS in Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
Isabella Ma, Samara Hatley, Andrew Lin, Seojin Lee, Joelle Lim, Eileen Ho, Ludia Cho, Daniel Hur, Lena Fine, Tyler Wisniewski, Will Kasiak, Mehali Desai, Griffin Weaver, Omo Agbonile, Riki Sampson, Keaton Anthony Danseglio, Kevin Shao, Jiayi Bai, Daisy Li
- PhD Students
Gustavo Alvarez
PhD in Mechanical Engineering, 2025, Cornell University
Han Huang
PhD in Mechanical Engineering, 2025, Cornell University
Jinghang Dai
PhD in Mechanical Engineering, 2023, Cornell University
Chen Li
PhD in Mechanical Engineering, 2021, Cornell University
Hao Ma
PhD in Mechanical Engineering, 2020, Cornell University
Eurydice Kanimba
PhD in Mechanical Engineering, December 2019, Virginia Tech
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