Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Address
1634 GGB
2350 Hayward, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Phone: (734) 615-5952
Degrees
Ph.D., Applied Science and Technology Program, University of California, Berkeley, 2007
M.Tech., Computer Aided Design and Automation, Indian Institute of Technology, 2002
B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, 2002 Research
Research Interests
Nanoscale charge and energy transport, thermoelectric devices, microscale heat transfer, organic photovoltaics, scanning probe microscopy and optics.
Research Areas
Energy, Micro/Nano Engineering
Honors & Awards
- Young Faculty Award, DARPA, 2012
- CAREER Award , National Science Foundation, 2009
Faculty Type
Tenured and Tenure-Track
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Closing the gap: Converting heat to electricity at nanometer distances
08/05/2021
Researchers at the University of Michigan have demonstrated an exceptionally efficient system for converting waste heat to electricity.
Seven faculty members receives College of Engineering Awards 2020-21
03/22/2021
Seven Mechanical Engineering Faculty have been awarded 2020-21 College of Engineering Awards! Congratulations to them for their outstanding achievements.
Breakthrough Calorimeter Tool Gives Closer Look at Cell Growth
07/06/2020
Two graduate students develop a new calorimeter tool that increases the measurement sensitivity of metabolic heat output ten-fold.
Exploring a Novel, Nanoscale Thermal Switch
02/12/2020
ME Professors Edgar Meyhofer and Pramod Reddy have shown for the first time how a nanoscale thermal switch can be built by employing nanoscale effects that arise when heat is transferred between a hot and cold nanoscale-thick membrane via thermal radiation.
Toward molecular computers: First measurement of single-molecule heat transfer
07/22/2019
If Moore's law's endgame is really computer components made from single molecules, we're going to need to know how to cool them.
U-M receives $6.25M to study heat-to-electricity conversion and cooling with LEDs
05/03/2019
Michigan Engineering is leading four other universities in Department of Defense-funded research.
ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards of 2018 includes ME Postdoctoral Fellow
04/12/2019
Work with radiative thermal transport at nanoscale level lands Dakotah Thompson a ProQuest Dissertation Award.
Meyhofer and Reddy labs report novel LED based refrigeration in Nature
02/15/2019
LED enables a new approach to light-based cooling.
Heat transfer limit set by Max Planck's law can be overcome: Reddy and Meyhofer labs report in Nature
09/07/2018
Mechanical engineers find another way to break Planck's law at the nanoscale.
Cui wins MRS Gold Medal
12/05/2017
MRS Graduate Student Awards are intended to honor and encourage graduate students whose academic achievements and current materials research display a high level of excellence and distinction.
ME selected as a Minus K Technology Educational Giveaway winner
04/18/2016
As part of the giveaway, ME will receive a 150BM-8 negative stiffness vibration isolator workstation
Song receives ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, Sun receives Honorable Mention
02/29/2016
The purpose of the ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards is to recognize exceptional and unusually interesting work produced by doctoral students in the last phase of their graduate work
Liang and Reddy receive ME Department Achievement Awards
05/01/2015
Liang and Reddy were honored at the ME Spring Banquet
Reddy's Work Featured on Cover of Nature Nanotechnology
11/17/2014
Research from Professor Pramod Reddy’s group on thermoelectric properties of molecular junctions published in Nature Nanotechnology and highlighted on the cover of the November edition.
Atomic-Scale Heat Dissipation Studies Published in Nature
06/14/2013
A novel experimental platform based on nanofabricated thermocouples was developed and used to elucidate the unique heat dissipation phenomena that arise in atomic-/nano-scale devices — for the first time
Sadat wins Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Outstanding PhD Research
02/04/2013
In addition to Seid Sadat, 11 other ME graduate students won CoE Graduate Symposium Awards
Reddy selected for 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award
05/16/2012
The objective of this award is to identify and engage rising research stars in junior faculty positions at U.S. academic institutions and expose them to Department of Defense needs as well as DARPA's program development process
Paper by Reddy, Gavini and Dunietz's Groups Published in the Journal of American Chemical Society
07/06/2011
A combined effort by research groups headed by Pramod Reddy, Vikram Gavini, and Barry Dunietz was published in the June issue of JACS.
Three ME Faculty Receive CAREER Awards
10/16/2009