Sili Deng

Research Interests

• Physics-informed data-driven modeling of reacting flows: uncertainty quantification, optimization, and reduced-order modeling
• Energy conversion: high-efficiency low-emission engines, carbon-neutral energetic materials, photoelectrochemical devices
• Flame synthesis: flame-based/flameless synthesis of nanomaterials for sensing, solar cell, and photoelectrochemical devices
• Combustion: chemical kinetics, flame dynamics and combustion instability, pollutant formation and reduction
• Multiphase chemically reacting flows: experimentation and computational fluid dynamics (CFD)

Honors + Awards

• Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation, 2022
• Bernard Lewis Fellowship, Combustion Institute, 2016
• Gordon Wu Prize for Excellence, Princeton University, 2014
• Excellence in Teaching Award, Princeton Univerisity, 2014
• Princeton Energy and Climate Scholarship,  Princeton University, 2013
• Princeton University Graduate Fellowship, Princeton University, 2010
• Best Bachelor Thesis Award, Tsinghua University, 2010

Related Experience

• Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT 07/2024-present
• Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT 01/2019-06/2024
• Visiting Scientist, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, 06/2017-12/2018
• Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 09/2016-12/2018
• Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, 09/2010-09/2016
• McGraw Graduate Teaching Fellow, McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, Princeton University, 05/2014-09/2016
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, 02/2013-09/2016
• Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, 08/2008-07/2010

Memberships

• Combustion Institute
• American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics
• Materials Research Society

Publications

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=l-IHllAAAAAJ&hl=en