Dr. Yanan Yue is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Miami University, USA. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University in 2011 and his bachelor’s degree from Wuhan University, China. Before joining Miami University, he was a Full Professor at Wuhan University and served as Manager of the U.S. Department of Energy Industrial Assessment Center at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Dr. Yue’s research focuses on nanoscale thermal transport, Raman spectroscopy–based characterization, and thermal property and structural diagnostics, with wide-ranging applications in energy systems, manufacturing, photothermal therapy, and industrial thermal design. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal papers and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).