Ali Riaz is a PhD student in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Atlantic Technological University, working with Dr. Gerard McGranaghan, Mohammadreza Kadivar, David Tormey, John Lohan and industrial partner, Nexalus. Their research focuses on electronics cooling, additive manufacturing, and computational fluid dynamics.

Before this, Ali completed a master’s in mechanical engineering at the Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, supported by Government of Pakistan scholarship. He then spent five years in industry as a Project Engineer, specializing in the toubleshooting and optimization of heat transfer systems. He has published over ten research articles, reviewed journal manuscripts, presented at four international conferences and authored numerous technical reports in the areas of thermal and renewable energy, thin plate vibrations and numerical simulations.

Their current work explores the use of porous structures known as lattices to develop next-generation heat sinks for the liquid cooling of electronics cards. These advanced lattice structures-based heat sinks aim to effectively regulate chip temperatures in data centers, computers, laptops, and electric vehicles, while also enabling the recovery and reuse of waste heat for other applications, such as domestic heating.