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Rohini Bala Chandran is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. She earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in 2015, her M.S. from the same university in 2010, and her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from BITS-Pilani in 2008. Her research interests include thermal fluid sciences, multiscale computational model development, radiative heat transfer, optics, chemical kinetics of heterogeneous reactions, electrochemical engineering, and semiconductor physics. Dr. Bala Chandran has received multiple accolades, including the 2023 ASME Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award and an NSF Career Award for her proposal on understanding radiative transport in flowing reactive participating media. Her research aims to improve solar energy systems, including the production of hydrogen through sunlight-driven processes and the development of advanced materials for solar thermal energy applications.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science