Alumni

Prof. Tao Yu is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Beihang University. He received his Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and conducted joint doctoral training at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg, followed by postdoctoral research at KAUST, McGill University, and Stanford University.

Research areas

Laser spectroscopyComputational optical imaging

Education

  • B.S., Jilin University
  • Ph.D., Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Joint doctoral training, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg

Selected highlights

  • National-level Young Talent (Overseas), 2024
  • Research focuses on quantitative gas concentration and temperature measurements under demanding conditions
  • Published more than 20 SCI papers in journals including Optics Letters, Optics Express, Applied Physics Letters, and Combustion and Flame
  • Youth Editorial Board member of Measurement: Energy

Dr. Jianqing Huang is an assistant professor at Xiamen University. He received his B.Eng. from Harbin Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University under the supervision of Prof. Weiwei Cai. He was jointly trained at Lund University and later conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Hong Kong.

Research areas

Combustion diagnosticsFlow visualizationComputational imagingIntelligent algorithms

Education

  • B.Eng., Harbin Institute of Technology, 2013-2017
  • Ph.D., Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2017-2022
  • Joint doctoral training, Lund University, 2019-2021

Selected highlights

  • Joined Xiamen University in January 2025
  • Former Hong Kong Scholar postdoctoral fellow at the University of Hong Kong
  • Published representative work in Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Combustion and Flame, ACS Photonics, and Cell Reports Physical Science
  • Research integrates combustion, optics, and artificial intelligence for complex reacting-flow diagnostics

Dr. Hecong Liu is an associate professor at the School of Electric Power, South China University of Technology. He received his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Duisburg-Essen and City University of Hong Kong before joining SCUT.

Research areas

Optical diagnosticsCombustion diagnosticsElectric-field-assisted combustionMetal combustionMicrowave plasma synthesis

Education

  • B.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2012-2016
  • M.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2016-2019
  • Ph.D., Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2019-2022

Selected highlights

  • Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship awardee, 2023
  • Published more than 40 papers, including 18 first- or corresponding-author papers
  • Research focuses on flame emission tomography, background-oriented schlieren tomography, laser diagnostics, and advanced combustion processes
  • Youth Editorial Board member of Measurement: Energy

Dr. Fan Peng joined the College of Automation Engineering at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in June 2025. Her research focuses on energetic metal-particle combustion diagnostics, computational imaging, and machine-learning-enabled flow visualization and combustion diagnostics.

Research areas

Metal combustionCombustion optical diagnosticsThree-dimensional tomographyComputational imagingMachine learning for combustion diagnostics

Education

  • B.Eng., North China Electric Power University, 2012-2016
  • M.Eng., North China Electric Power University, 2016-2019
  • Ph.D., Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2020-2025

Selected highlights

  • Joined NUAA in June 2025
  • Published or accepted 15 papers in journals including Combustion and Flame and Measurement
  • Works on light-field imaging, linear and nonlinear tomography, holographic imaging, and machine learning for diagnostics
  • Leads a start-up project on combustion diagnostics and mechanisms of micron-scale impure iron powders