Xian Shi

Xian Shi

3226 Engineering Gateway
(949) 824-5139

Samueli School of Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering, 2017
M.S., University of California, Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering, 2014
B.Eng., Tongji University, Automotive Engineering, 2013

Shi’s research at UCI seeks to enable next-generation energy conversion and propulsion technologies through studying the fundamental physics and chemistry of reacting flows and materials. His current research interests include high-speed reacting flows, detonation and shock, chemical kinetics, renewable fuels, carbon materials, nanoparticle synthesis and dynamics.