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Professor Damena Agonafer, Honored with Presidential Early Career Award for 2025
The NEIT Lab proudly announces that its PI, Professor Damena Agonafer, has been awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists
Prof. Damena Agonafer Delivers Invited Talk at MRS International Conference in Kigali, Rwanda
Prof. Damena Agonafer, Director of the NEIT Lab, was an invited speaker at the 12th International Conference of the Materials
Kidus Guye Presented His Work on Numerical Analysis of Novel Hollow Micropillar Evaporator for High Powered Servers
Kidus Guye presented his work on designing and modeling a novel hollow micropillar evaporator for high AI/ML workloads in state-of-the-art
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Kong, D., Jung, E., Kim, Y., Manepalli, V. V., Rah, K. J., Kim, H. S., Hong, Y., Choi, H. G., Agonafer, D., and Lee, H., 2023, “An Additively Manufactured Manifold-Microchannel Heat Sink for High-Heat Flux Cooling,” International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 248, p. 108228.
Kong, D., Kim, K., Kang, M., Hong, Y., Kim, H.S., Rah, K., Choi, G., Guye, G., Agonafer, D., Lee, H., “Thermal hydraulic design of 3D manifold microchannel heat sinks for energy-efficient thermal management systems”, Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2021, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csite.2021.101583.
Guye, K., Dong, D., Kim, Y., Lee, H., Dogruoz, B., Agonafer, D., “Guidelines for designing micropillar structures for enhanced evaporative heat transfer”, Journal of Electronic Packaging, 2021, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4052465.
Agonafer, D., Miljkovic, N., Spector M.A., “Materials and Interface Challenges and Opportunities in High Vapor Quality Two-Phase Flow Boiling Research.”, IEEE Components & Transactions, 2021, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TCPMT.2021.3085255.