Leitao Chen

Title
Assistant Professor
Email
Department
Mechanical Engineering Department
College
College of Engineering
Leitao Chen


  • Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus

  • ME 800: Dissertation
  • ME 595HH: Multi-scale Kinetic Modeling
  • ME 413L: Pre Dsgn High Prfmnc Vchls Lab
  • ME 413: Pre Dsgn High Prfmnc Vchls W/L
  • ME 433L: Sr Dsgn Hgh Prfmnc Vhcls Lab
  • ME 433: Sr Dsgn Hgh Prfmnc Vhcls w/LB
  • ME 409: Vehicle Aerodynamics


ES 403 – Heat Transfer

ME409 – Vehicle Aerodynamics

ME595HH – Multi-scale Kinetic Modeling


Assistant Professor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University               August 2023 — Present

Assistant Professor, Tennessee State University                                 August 2020 — August 2023

Research Scientist, Rice University                                                       November 2018 — July 2020

Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University                                                     August 2016 — October 2018

Research Intern, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center                            June 2015 — September 2015


American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016 – present

American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineering (ASTFE), 2017 – present


Faculty Excellence Award in Research, Tennessee State University, 2023

Outstanding Reviewer, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, Elsevier, 2017

Outstanding Reviewer, Renewable Energy, Elsevier, 2017

Outstanding Reviewer, Computers and Fluids, Elsevier, 2017