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Professor Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering
Dr. Weiwei Deng is a Professor in the Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). Prior to joining SUSTech, he was a tenured associate professor at Virginia Tech (2015-2017) and an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida (2010-2015). He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University in 2008 and B.S. from Tsinghua University in China. He is the recipient of National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2015. His group has published over sixty publications, including two cover articles of Physical Review Letters.
Research fields include:
---Experimental fluid dynamics of liquid droplets, jets, and films;
---Printing of perovskite and polymer solar cells via electrospray deposition;
---Printing of flexible electronics;
---Spray drying route of nanoparticles for cancer therapy.