Xiangchun Xuan
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University
239 Fluor Daniel Engineering
Innovation Building,
Phone:
(864) 656-5630 | Fax: (864) 656-7299
| Email: xcxuan@clemson.edu
Education
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto (2006)
Doctor of Engineering Physical Electronics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, CAS (2000)
B.S. Engineering Thermophysics, University of Science and Technology of China (1995)
Professional experience
Clemson University, 2019- , Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Clemson University, 2013-2019, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Clemson University, 2007-2013, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
National University of Singapore, 2000-2002, Postdoctoral Fellow of Mechanical Engineering
Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, 1997-2000, Principal Designer of Cryogenics
Research interests
Our group specializes in micro/nanoscale fluid mechanics and microfluidic system design. Our research includes the investigation (both theoretical and experimental) of hydrodynamic, electrokinetic, and magnetophoretic transport phenomena in microfluidic devices, and the development of lab-on-a-chip devices for the manipulation of liquids and species (ions, molecules, particles, and cells) involving pumping, mixing, focusing, concentration, and separation etc.
Courses taught
ME 203 Foundations of Thermal and Fluid Systems
ME 303 Thermodynamics
ME 308 Fluid Mechanics
ME 310 Introduction to Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer
ME 810 Macroscopic Thermodynamics
ME 830 Conduction and Radiation Heat Transfer
ME 893 Electrokinetic Phenomena in
Microfluidics
Current
graduate students
Amirreza Malekanfard (2017- ), PhD student
Mahmud Kamal Raihan (2019- ), PhD student
Joseph Bentor (2019- ), master student
Karthikeyan Karunanithi (2019- ), master student
Kuldip Bawankule (2019- ), master student
Le Song (2018- ), visiting PhD student
Song-Yu Lu (2019- ), visiting master student
Sen Wu (2019- ), visiting PhD student
Alumni
PhD graduates (5)
Di Li (PhD 2019)
Xinyu Lu (PhD 2016), winner of the 2016
Outstanding Graduate Research Award in both the Graduate School and the
College, and the 2015 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed
Students Abroad
Akshay Kale (PhD 2015)
Saurin Patel (PhD 2014), winner of the Departmental Eastman Chemical PhD
award in 2012 and 2013
Junjie Zhu (PhD 2011), winner of the 2012 Outstanding Graduate Research Award
in the College, and the 2010 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding
Self-financed Students Abroad
Master
graduates (11)
Purva Jagdale (MS 2019), PhD student
(2016-2019)
Abhinav Kalkhanda (MS 2017)
Rama Prabhakaran
(MS 2016), winner of the Departmental
Masters Award in 2017
Xuchen Liu (MS 2016)
Dhileep Thanjavur
(MS 2015), winner of the Departmental
Masters Award in 2015
John DuBose (MS 2014), winner of the Departmental Masters Award in 2014
Litao Liang (MS 2013), PhD student (2009-2011)
Jian Zeng (MS 2013) winner of the Departmental Masters Award and the
Departmental Graduate Student Poster Competition in 2013
Sriram Sridharan (MS 2011)
Christopher Church (MS 2010), winner of the Best Presentation Award of
ASME-IMECE Microfluidics 2009
Christian Davidson (MS 2008), winner of the Departmental Masters Award in
2008
Other
graduate students
Yilong Zhou (2013-2016), PhD student, switched to non-thesis master
Asher Antao (MS 2016), non-thesis master
Emre Gonel (MS 2014), non-thesis master
Vincent Brown (MS 2014), non-thesis master
Bhaskar Ramesh (MS 2012), non-thesis master
Srijeet Sathyamurth (MS 2012), non-thesis master
Amit Srivatsa (MS 2011), non-thesis master
LaToya McDonald (2010-2011), PhD student, transferred to other department
Visiting graduate students (3)
Qi Chen (2016-2017), visiting student from China Agricultural University
Zhijian Liu (2016-2017), visiting student from Dalian Maritime University
Chien-Hsuan KO (2017-2018), visiting student from National
Pingtung University of Science and Technology (Taiwan)
Thesis
undergraduates (7)
Cory Thomas (15F, 16S), Honor Undergraduate Research, winner of the
Departmental Excellence in Engineering Award in 2017
Christian Brumme (15F, 16S), Honor Undergraduate Research
Herbert Harrison (13F, 14S), Honor Undergraduate Research, winner of the
Departmental Excellence in Engineering Award in 2015
James Wilbanks (12F, 13S), Honor Undergraduate Research, winner of the
Departmental Excellence in Engineering Award in 2014
Mark Johnson (12S, 12F), Honor Undergraduate Research, winner of the
Departmental Excellence in Engineering Award in 2013
Daniel Showers (11F, 12S), Honor Undergraduate Research, winner of the Departmental Excellence in Engineering Award in 2012
Cameron Canter (10F, 11S), Honor Undergraduate Research, winner of the Departmental Excellence in Engineering Award in 2011
Creative Inquiry (CI) undergraduate
students (incomplete list)
Erl Ibarra (09S-10S), Creative Inquiry
Gyunay Keten (09S-10F), Creative Inquiry
Juan Nieto (09S-10S), Creative Inquiry
Lance Clark (09S, 09F), Creative Inquiry
Joe Willis (09S, 09F), Creative Inquiry
Anna Little (10S), Creative Inquiry
William Stoker (10S), Creative Inquiry
Jian Zeng (10S-11S), Creative Inquiry
Robert Anderson (12F-13S), Creative Inquiry
Garrett Kiessling (12F-13S), Creative Inquiry
John Rivers (11F-13F), Creative Inquiry
Haitham Barakat (10F), Undergraduate Research
Jeffrey Watterworth (09F), Undergraduate Research
Nathaniel Tupper (12F-14S), Creative Inquiry
Steven Pasternak (14S-14F), Creative Inquiry
Andrew Todd (2014- ), Creative Inquiry
Jackson Homnick (2014- ), Creative Inquiry
Shruti Kaul (2014- ), Creative Inquiry
Ryan Shaw (2015- ), Creative Inquiry
Kane Travis (2015- ), Creative Inquiry
High
school students (7)
Ianara Natividad (Su12), Summer Program for Research
Interns (SPRI)
Jones
Jenkins (Su14), Summer Program for
Research Interns (SPRI)
Zachary
Johnson (Su15), Summer Program for Research Interns (SPRI)
Marlena Kolesinska (Su15), Summer Program for Research Interns
(SPRI)
Nikki Bono (Su16), EUREKA! Honors early-start research program
Alexander Spitzer (Su16), Summer Program for Research Interns (SPRI)
Wes, Robinson (Su16), Summer Program for Research Interns (SPRI)
Last updated: January 9th, 2020