Daoru Han

Biography

Education: B. Eng. Aeronautical Propulsion Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics 2009 MS Aerospace Engineering Missouri University of Science and Technology 2011 PhD Astronautical Engineering University of Southern California 2015 Daoru (Frank) Han was born in Zhoukou, Henan Province - a small town in the central part of China - where he grew up and enjoyed a wild and natural childhood. In the year of 2005, he attended the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the city of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. Four years later, he graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering in Power Engineering of Aircraft (Aeronautical Propulsion), and moved to the United States. From 2009 to 2011, he studied at Missouri University of Science and Technology in a very small and quiet town, Rolla, where he also enjoyed the beauties and wildness of the state of Missouri. Getting a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering degree with a thesis focused on aerodynamics, in the summer of 2011, he got on a train heading to the city of Los Angeles in California and 35 hours later, he arrived. He spent the next four years studying in the Department of Astronautical Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), developing and applying first-principle-based plasma simulation models on supercomputers to resolve fundamental plasma physics phenomena arising from space explorations. He defended his Ph.D. dissertation in June 2015. Currently he is an Assistant Research Professor at WPI – after a cross-country 3000-mile drive from California to Massachusetts.

Research Interest

Plasma Dynamics; Large-Scale and High-Performance Computing