POUYA ASRAR Contact Information: 337 George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering 801 Ferst Drive Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0405 Phone: (541) 602-3932 Email: [email protected]

Education . Georgia Institute of Technology January 2014 – December 2017 (expected) Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering GPA: 4.0/4.0 “Potentially looking for Internship position at the moment.” . Iowa State University January 2012 - December 2013 M. Sc. Candidate in Mechanical Engineering, November 2013 GPA: 3.73/4.0

THESIS TITLE: Investigation of Microscale Particles Using a Microfluidic Flow Cytometer Equipped with a Sensitive Photodetector.

. Sharif University of Technology September 2005 - June 2009 B. Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Feburary 2011 GPA: 3.65/4.0 Remark: The average GPA for the school of Mechanical Engineering is 13.5/20.

Research Interests . Heat Transfer: Three years experience of working on ptojects focused on electronic cooling concepts in METTL (Microelectronics and Emerging Technologies Thermal Laboratory) lab at Georgia Tech. . Micro/nanofluidics: Experienced in fabricating micro-scale devices in cleanroom facilities at Georgia Tech. . MEMS/NEMS: Four year experience of testing, running, and analyzing micro-scale device for the application of biomedical, electronic chips, etc.

Current Project . Fabrication, running and testing multiple micro-fluidic cooling devices that all are fabricated using microfabrication technology in the cleanrooms at Georgia Institute of Technology. Several micro- scale devices with enhanced micro-structures have all been tested in an equipped thermal management system consisting of multiple components such as pumps, heat exchangers, heaters, etc. Further analyzes are then implemented to investigate the heat transfer performance of the fabricated chips.

Professional Experience . Technical reviewer for the IEEE CPMT (Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Society) journal. . Georgia Institute of Technology (Jan. 2014-present): Research Assistant in METTL lab. . Iowa State University (2012-2013): Research Assistant in Hashemi Lab (Biomicrofluidic and Optofluidic Systems Lab). . Iowa State University (Jan. 2012-May 2013): Mentoring graduate and undergraduate students at Iowa State University to get familiar with analyzing micro-scale systems and fabrication processes. . Iowa State University (Jan. 2012-May 2012): Desigining the Microfluidic and Optofluidic lab at Iowa State University.

Selected Projects and Researches . Fabrication, running, and analyzing multiple micro-scale devices in METTL lab, Georgia Institute of Technology. . Preparation of a proposal requested by Department of Energy as a group work, supervisor: Dr. Brown. . Fabrication and testing a micro-transistor in MRC (Microelectronics Research Center) of Iowa State University. . Investigation the cooling process of perforated turbine blades, supervisor: Dr. Shafii. . Designing a Two-Stage Speed Reduction Helical Gear Box, supervisor: Dr. Sohrabpour. . Nonlinear Delayed Feedback Control of Sprott Circuits Using Sliding Mode, supervisor: Dr. Alasti. . The Effect of Surfactants on the Film Boiling of Nanofluids, supervisor: Dr. Shafii. . Designing a Pressure Vessel along with its attached platform, supervisor: Dr. Asghari.

Honors and Achievements . Travel Grant Award, IEEE ITherm, May 2016. . Travel Grant Award, IEEE SEMI-THERM 32, March 2016. . Session Chair, IEEE SEMI-THERM 32, March 2016. . Fully funded as Graduate Research Assistantship, Mechanical Engineering Department, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. (January 2014-Present) . Fully funded as Graduate Research Assistantship, Mechanical Engineering Department, Iowa State University, IA. (Spring 2012-December 2013)

Media . Pouya Asrar, Xuchen Zhang, Craig E. Green, Peter A. Kottle, Thomas E. Sarvey, Andrei Fedorov, Muhanned S. Bakir, and Yogendra K. Joshi, “Visualization of Flow Boiling of R245fa In a Microgap with Integrated Staggered Pin Fins”, Electronic Cooling Magazine, June 2016.

Publications . Pouya Asrar, Xuchen Zhang, Craig E. Green, Peter A. Kottle, Thomas E. Sarvey, Andrei Fedorov, Muhanned S. Bakir, and Yogendra K. Joshi, “Flo Visualization of Two Phase Flow of R245fa In a Microgap with Integrated Staggered Pin Fins”, IEEE SEMI-THERM 32, March 2016. . Pouya Asrar, Xuchen Zhang, Casey Woodrum, Craig E. Green, Peter A. Kottle, Thomas E. Sarvey, Suresh K. Sitaraman, Andrei Fedorov, Muhanned S. Bakir, and Yogendra K. Joshi, “Flow Boiling of R245fa in A Microgap with Integrated Staggered Pin Fins”, IEEE ITherm, May 2016. . Daniel Lorenzini, Pouya Asrar, Casey Woodrum, Petter Kottke, Andrei Fedorov, and Yogendra Joshi, “Assessment of flow distribution features in microgaps for 3D stacking of ICs”, Thermacomp 2016, Jun 2016. . Craig Green, Peter Kottke, Xuefei Han, Casey Woodrum, Thomas Sarvey, Pouya Asrar, Xuchen Zhang, Yogendra Joshi, Andrei Fedorov, Suresh Sitaraman, and Muhannad Bakir, “A Review of Two Phase Forced Cooling in Three-Dimensional Stacked Electronics: Technology Integrated”, ASME Journal of Electronic Packaging, 4(2015). . Green, C., Kottke, P. A., Han, X., Woodrum, C., Sarvey, T., Asrar, P., Joshi, Y. K., and Fedorov, A., Sitaraman, S., and Bakir, M., “Three-dimensional stackable evaporative cooling of microelectronics”, GOMACTech – Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, March 23-26, 2015. . Pouya Asrar, Marta Sucur, and and Nastaran Hashemi, “Multi-Pixel Photon Counters for Optofluidic Characterization of Particles and Microalgae”, Biosensors, 5, 308-318 (2015). . Pouya Asrar and Nastaran Hashemi, “Charactrization of Miroscale particles using a Microfluidic flow cytometer equipped with A Multi-Plex Photon Counter”, SBC2013-14800, ASME Bioengineering Conference, 2013. . Hashemi, N., Poursharifi, Z., Asrar, P., Montazami, R., Hashemi, N., "Microfabrication of Highly Biocompatible Materials for Energy Applications", ASME, Minneapolis MN, (2013). . Nastaran Hashemi, Pouya Asrar and Dao Lim, “An optofluidic approach for characterization of phytoplankton”, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), July 2012.

Presentations . ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, Sunriver, Oregon, USA Jun 26-29, 2013. . IEEE ITHERM Conference, Las Vegas, NV, USA, June, 2016.

Skills . Software: COMSOL, LabView, MATLAB, AutoCAD, Solid Works, Fluent, PVElite, Google SketchUP