Yuping He

Former Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Education

• Ph.D.. in Chemistry, University of California, Davis, USA (2011)
• M.S. in Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA (2006)
• M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China (2001)
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, China Agriculture University, Beijing, China (1998)

Professional Affiliations

• American Physical Society (APS)
• Materials Research Society (MRS)

Areas of Interest

• Multiscale modelings and simulations using the empirical and first principle methods
• Thermal and solar energy conversions
• Transport properties of disordered semiconductor alloys
• Nanomaterials for energy conversions
• Surfaces and interfaces in energy applications

Experience

• 2012 – present, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of California, Davis, USA
• 2007 – 2011, Research Assistant, University of California, Davis, USA
• 2003 – 2006, Research Assistant, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA
• 2001 – 2002, Technical Engineer, Lenovo in China
• 1998 – 2001, Research Assistant, University Science and Technology, Beijing, China

Publications

• Yuping He and Giulia Galli
  Perovskites for Solar Thermoelectric Applications: A First Principle Study of CH3NH3Al3 (A=Pb and Sn)
  Chem. Mater. 26, 5394-5400 (2014)
• Yuping He and Giulia Galli
  A Nanostructured Clathrate Phonon Glass: Beyond the Rattling Concept
  Nanoletters 14, 2920 (2014)
• Yuping He, Fan Sui, Susan M. Kauzlarich and Giulia Galli
  Si-based Earth abundant clathrates for solar energy conversion
  Energy Environ. Sci. 7, 2598-2602 (2014)
• Yuping He, Ivana Savic, Davide Donadio and Giulia Galli
  Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Semiconducting Bulk Materials: Atomic Simulations
  Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 14, 16209-16222 (2012)
• Yuping He and Giulia Galli
  Microscopic Origin of The Reduced Thermal Conductivity of Silicon Nanowires
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 215901 (2012)
• Yuping He, Davide Donadio and Giulia Galli
  Morphology and Temperature Dependence of The Thermal Conductivity of Nanoporous SiGe
  Nano. Lett. 11, 3608-3611 (2011)
• Yuping He, Davide Donadio and Giulia Galli
  Heat Transport in Amorphous Silicon: Interplay Between Morphology and Disorder
  Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 144101 (2011)
• Yuping He, Davide Donadio, Joo-Hyoung Lee, Jeffrey C. Grossman and Giulia Galli
  Thermal Transport in Nanoporous Silicon: Interplay Between Disorder at The Mesoscopic And The Atomic Scale
  ACS Nano 5, 1839 (2011)
• The ATLAS Collaboration et al. ( SMU: Yuping He )
  Performance of the ATLAS detector using first collision data
  Journal of High Energy Physics 2010, 56 (2010)
• The ATLAS Collaboration et al. ( SMU: Yuping He )
  The ATLAS experiment at the CERN large hadron collider
  Journal of Instrumentation 3, S08003 (2008)
• A. Bazan et al. ( Bernard Dinkespiler Yuping He, Tiankuan Liu, Ryszard Stroynowski, Annie Xiang Chang-An Yang, Jingbo Ye),
  ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter Back End Electronics
  Journal of Instrumentation 2, 06002 (2007)
• Tiankuan Liu, Yuping He, Cheng-An Yang, Benjamin E. Wakeland and Jingbo Ye,
  Quality Controal of Optical Transmitters For The ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter
  ATL-LARG-PUB-2005-004 (2005)