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1 Shima Hajimirza, PhD. Texas A&M University College Station, Texas Phone: Research Website: Google Scholar Profile: Link RESEARCH INTERESTS Computational optimization, Statistical analysis, Inverse problems in thermal fluid sciences, Machine Learning for designing Energy systems, Renewable energy technologies, Micro-Nano materials modeling, design and fabrication, Energy conversion at nano-scale, Energy scheduling and optimal control. CITIZENSHIP Permanent Resident of United States EDUCATION Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Aug.2013 University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX Dissertation: Optimization, Design and Performance Analysis of Light Trapping Structures in Thin Film Solar Cells Advisor: Prof. John R. Howell MSc., Bioengineering, Jun.2010 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA MSc., Mechanical Engineering, Aug.2009 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Sep University of Mazandaran, Babol, Iran PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor, Jan.2016-Present Texas A&M University Assistant Professor, Sep.2014-Sep.2015 California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Department of Engineering Technology 1

2 Adjunct Professor,Jan.2014-June 2014 The Tennessee State University Postdoctoral Researcher Aug.2013-Sep.2014 The Institute for Computational Eng. and Sciences, UT Austin Research Assistant Jan.2010-Aug.2013 The University of Texas at Austin PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME) Society for Industrial and applied Mathematics(SIAM) NOTABLE AWARDS Early Career Summer Support Award, Calpoly Pomona, 2015 PUBLICATIONS A. ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS 1. Hajimirza, Shima. Optimal Design of a Solar Panel with Side Flaps Using Surrogate-Based Modeling of Ray Tracing Optics via Neural Networks. Submitted to the Applied Energy Journal Hajimirza, Shima. "Expedited Quasi-Updated Gradient Based Optimization Techniques for Energy Conversion Nano-Materials." Journal of Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics 10.1 (2015): Hajimirza, Shima, and John R. Howell. "Flexible Nanotexture Structures for Thin Film PV Cells Using Wavelet Functions." IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology 14.5 (2015): Hajimirza, Shima, and John R. Howell. "Computational and experimental study of a multilayer absorptivity enhanced thin film silicon solar cell."journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 143 (2014): Hajimirza, Shima, Georges El Hitti, Alex Heltzel, and John R. Howell. "Specification of micro-nanoscale radiative patterns using inverse analysis for increasing solar panel efficiency." Journal of Heat Transfer 134, no. 10 (2012):

3 6. Hajimirza, Shima, and John Howell. "Inverse Optimization of Plasmonic and Antireflective Grating in Thin Film PV Cells." Journal of Physics: Conference Series. Vol No. 1. IOP Publishing, Hajimirza, Shima, Georges El Hitti, Alex Heltzel, and John R. Howell. "Using inverse Analysis to find optimum nano-scale radiative surface patterns to enhance solar cell performance." International Journal of Thermal Sciences62 (2012): Hajimirza, Shima, and John R. Howell. "Statistical Analysis of Surface Nanopatterned Thin Film Solar Cells Obtained by Inverse Optimization."Journal of Heat Transfer (2013): Hajimirza, Shima, and John R. Howell. "Design and Analysis of Spectrally Selective Patterned Thin Film Cells." International Journal of Thermophysics34.10 (2013): B. REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 1. Jicheng Lu, Shima Hajimirza Modeling of dust accumulation on solar cell panels with Gravity effect and panel tilt angle. Submitted to the ASME 2017 summer Heat transfer Conference, July9-14, 2017, Bellevue, Washington. 2. Shima Hajimirza, Jicheng Lu. Surrogate-based optimization of a folded solar cell structure With enhanced optical efficiency Submitted to ICHMT International Symposium on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer, May 28-June 1, 2017, Napoli, Italy. 3. Mine Kaya, Shima Hajimirza Optimization of Plasmonic and Anti-reflective surface textures in thin film solar cells via Surrogate Modeling Submitted to ASME, IDETC/CIE International Design Engineering Conferences &Computer &Information in Engineering Conference, August 6-9, 2017, Cleveland, Ohio. 4. Hajimirza, Shima. "A Novel Machine-Learning Aided Optimization Technique for Material Design: Application in Thin Film Solar Cells." In ASME 2016 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2016 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting and the ASME th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, pp. V002T15A016-V002T15A016. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Hajimirza, Shima. A Dimensionality-Reduced First Order Method for Industrial Optimization: A Case Study in Renewable Energy Technologies." Proceedings of the ASME 2015 Power and Energy Conference. 3

4 6. Hajimirza, Shima, John R. Howell, Milo Holt, Sayan Saha, Deji Akinwande, and Sanjay Banerjee. "Design and Verification of a PECVD Fabricated Multi-Layer Nano-Scale Photovoltaic Device." ASME 2013 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME th International Conference on Energy Sustainability and the ASME th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, pp. V001T01A003-V001T01A003. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Minneapolis, MN. 7. Hajimirza, Shima, and John R. Howell. "Computational and experimental study of a multilayer absorptivity enhanced thin film silicon solar cell." 7th international symposium on Radiative Transfer 2013 (RAD-13), Kusadasi, Turkey. 8. Hajimirza, Shima, and John R, Howell. Design of a Nano-scale Silicon PV Device with Optimized Solar to Carrier Collection Efficiency. Nanotech Conference and Expo, 2013, Washington DC. 9. Hajimirza, Shima, and John R, Howell. Electromagnetic and Current Field Enhancement of a Multilayer Thin Film Solar Device 34th Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium 2013 (PIERS), Stockholm, Sweden. 10. Hajimirza, Shima, Alex Heltzel, and John R. Howell. "Broadband Absorption Enhancement in Thin Film Solar Cells Using Inverse Optimization of Light Trapping Mechanisms." In ASME 2012 Third International Conference on Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer, pp American Society Mechanical Engineers, 2012, Atlanta, GA. 11. Hajimirza, Shima, and John R, Howell. Inverse Optimization of Plasmonic and Antireective Grating in Thin Film PV Cells",Eurotherm Conference on Computational Thermal Radiation in Participating Media, 2012, Nancy, France. 12. Hajimirza, Shima, and John R, Howell. Statistical Analysis of Surface Nanopatterned Thin Film Solar Cells Obtained by Inverse Optimization", ASME 2012 Third International Conference on Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer, Atlanta, GA. 13. Hajimirza, Shima, and John R. Howell. "Wavelet Based Nano-Texture Structures for Thin Film PV Cells." ASME 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012, Houston, TX. 14. Hajimirza, Shima, and John R. Howell. "Limits of Light Trapping in Silicon Thin Film Cells via Metallic Gratings." ASME 2012 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the ASME 2012 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting and the ASME th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Puerto Rico, USA. 15. Hajimirza, Shima, and John R. Howell. Inverse Optimization of Light Trapping Via Wavelet Transform", ASME Verification & Validation Symposium 2012, Las Vegas, NV. 4

5 16. Hajimirza, Shima, Georges El Hitti, Alex Heltzel, and John R. Howell. Specification of Micro-Nanoscale Radiative Patterns Using Inverse Analysis for Increasing Solar Panel Efficiency", ASME/JSME 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference 2011.Honolulu, Hawaii. 17. Hajimirza, Shima, and John R. Howell. "Robust nanoscale patterns for thin film solar cells using inverse optimization of nonuniformly sampled absorption spectrum." ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2011.Denver, CO. 18. Hajimirza, Shima, Georges El Hitti, Alex Heltzel, and John R. Howell. "Using inverse Analysis to find optimum nano-scale radiative surface patterns to enhance solar cell Performance, International Symposium on Thermal and Materials Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2011.Antalya, Turkey. PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS 1. Hajimirza, Shima, Expedited Quasi-Updated Gradient Based Optimization Techniques for Energy Conversion Nano-Material Design", Energy Materials Nanotechnology meeting, Jan. 2015, Orlando Fl. 2. Hajimirza, Shima, Inverse Optimization of Light Trapping Via Wavelet Transform, ASME Verification & Validation Symposium 2012, Las Vegas, NV. 3. Hajimirza, Shima. Inverse Analysis for Robust Design and Fabrication of Solar Cells", Poster presentation at the University of Texas Energy Forum, STUDENTS 1. Mine Kaya (PhD)-August 2016-present 2. Jicheng Lu (PhD)-August2016-present 3. Calos Ojeda Barrero ( Undergraduate researcher from CANIETI program)-may2016- August Justin Bolf (TAMU Undergraduate researcher)-may2016-july Hyun Hee Kang (TAMU Undergraduate researcher)-january2017- present 5

6 PATENTS 1. Hajimirza, Shima, and John R. Howell. Complexity-Reduced First Order Optimization Method for High-Dimensional Problems", US provisional patent filed, serial number 62/113, Hajimirza, Shima. Method for Designing Nano-Structures Having a Desired Physical Characteristic", US provisional patent filed, Serial Number 61/818,644. SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES 1. Active member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) K-20 Committee on Computational Heat Transfer, and ASME K-6 committee on Heat Transfer in Energy Systems. Participated in all of the committee meetings in the last three years regarding conferences and symposiums organization, strategic planning for empowering computational aspects of heat transfer, and encouraging more women participation in the Computational Heat Transfer community by requesting travel funds from ASME for female students. 2. Topic Organizer for Computational Heat Transfer Methods and Algorithms and Optimization and Numerical Modeling of Energy Systems sessions of ASME summer heat transfer Conference, Washington DC, July 10-14, Topic Organizer for Applications of Computational Heat Transfer and Multiscale Computational Heat Transfer Modeling and Simulation sessions of ASME, International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exhibition (IMECE), Phoenix Nov , Session Organizer for Optimization and Machine Learning Methods in Heat transfer of 2017 ASME Summer Heat transfer Conference, Bellevue, Washington, July9-14, Faculty host for CANIETI summer research program for undergraduate students from Mexico who are going to pursue graduate programs at Texas A&M, CANIETI (Mexican Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technologies Industries Chamber) program strives to advance Mexico s electronics, telecommunications, and Information technologies industries. In order to achieve this goal, CANIETI is sponsoring 46 students to spend 11 weeks at Texas A&M University to conduct research with a TAMU faculty member. The main research focuses of this program are big data/analytics, cloud computing, advanced robotics, internet of things, mobile internet, automation of knowledge work, and 3D printing. 6. Reviewer for Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 2013-present. 7. Reviewer for ASME Heat Transfer Journal, Reviewer for National Science Foundation proposal panel, Feb and Dec