Daryoosh Vashaee
He/Him/His

Biography
Daryoosh Vashaee is the Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with a courtesy appointment at Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University. He is the director of the Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering Research Group (NQERG). He is also a member of ASSIST Engineering Research Center. In ASSIST, he leads the thermoelectric materials research for the development of self-powered wearable health and environmental monitoring and advising systems. He is an expert in the quantum and nanostructured materials for energy conversion and information technologies. In the past, he has contributed to the development of several critical thermoelectric structures including heterostructure thermionic devices and bulk nanocomposite thermoelectric materials.
He received his Ph.D. working under the supervision of Dr. Ali Shakouri at University of California at Santa Cruz in 2004, worked at MIT as a postdoctoral scholar under the supervision of Drs. Mildred Dresselhaus and Gang Chen, and worked at Oklahoma State University as Assistant Professor in 2008-2013.
Education
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Ph.D.
2004
Electrical Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz -
Master's
1995
Electrical Engineering
Amirkabir University of Science & Technology, Iran -
Bachelor's
1993
Electrical Engineering
Sharif University of Science & Technology, Iran
Recent Publications
- Cooperative Pseudo Jahn Teller distortion derives phase transitions in bismuth oxide (2023)
- ELATooLs: A tool for analyzing anisotropic elastic properties of the 2D and 3D materials (vol 271, 108195, 2022) (2023)
- Emerging Weyl Semimetal States in Ternary TaPxAs1-x Alloys: Insights from Electronic and Topological Analysis (2023)
- High-performance flexible and stretchable self-powered surface engineered PDMS-TiO2 nanocomposite based humidity sensors driven by triboelectric nanogenerator with full sensing range (2023)
- New insights into band inversion and topological phase of TiNI monolayer (2023)
- Room-Temperature Thermoelectric Performance of n-Type Multiphase Pseudobinary Bi2Te3-Bi2S3 Compounds: Synergic Effects of Phonon Scattering and Energy Filtering (2023)
- Room-Temperature Thermoelectric Performance of n-Type Multiphase Pseudobinary Bi2Te3-Bi2S3 Compounds: Synergic Effects of Phonon Scattering and Energy Filtering (2023)
- Unlocking the potential of hexagonal boron sheets: Giant improvements in thermal conductivity and mechanics through molybdenum intercalation (2023)
- Unveiling the properties of transition-metal dichalcogenides: a comprehensive study of WTe2, WSe2, ZrTe2, and NiTe2 in bulk and monolayer forms (2023)
- Unveiling the properties of transition-metal dichalcogenides: a comprehensive study of WTe2, WSe2, ZrTe2, and NiTe2 in bulk and monolayer forms (vol 58, pg 10023, 2023) (2023)
Highlighted Awards
- NSF CAREER Award (2014)
Awards & Honors
- 2004 The Goldsmid Award, for excellence in research in Thermoelectrics, ICT2004, Adelaide, Australia
- 2014-2016 Editorial Board of Frontiers in Materials Science, Springer
- 2014-2015 Editorial Board of Journal of Energy
- 2014 - NSF Career Award
- 2016- Editorial Board of Scientific Report, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Nature publishing group
- 2016- Associate Editor of Energy Harvesting Systems, De Gruyter
Recent News

NC State and Purdue ECE researchers receive funding for semiconductor center proposal
Posted on August 19, 2022 | Filed Under: Quantum and Research
A proposed research center based at NC State and Purdue would help integrate new materials into the electronic industry, meeting a critical need in the United States for advanced, domestically produced semiconductor devices.

Reduced Heat Leakage Improves Wearable Health Device
Posted on March 9, 2021 | Filed Under: Research
NC State engineers continue to improve flexible wearable devices powered by body heat.

Wearable Health Tech Gets Efficiency Upgrade
Posted on January 30, 2020 | Filed Under: Research
NC State engineers led by Mehmet Ozturk have demonstrated a flexible device that harvests the heat energy from the human body to monitor health.
Media Mentions

Your body is a big battery and scientists want to power gadgets with it
July 5, 2017
Thermoelectric generators pick up on the temperature difference and then use that to create energy, says Daryoosh Vashaee, an electrical engineer at North Carolina State University.

Patch-Like Body Heat Harvester Can Power Wearables
September 13, 2016
NC State engineers have developed an energy-harvesting patch that produces electricity from body heat to power wearable devices. Daryoosh Vashaee, engineering, featured.

Wearable tech efficiently converts body heat to electricity
September 23, 2016
NC State researchers have developed a new design for harvesting body heat and converting it into electricity for use in wearable electronics. Daryoosh Vashaee, engineering, featured.