With a close focus on the requirements of national defense and aerospace engineering, our team has conducted a series of fundamental and applied studies in aircraft environmental control systems (ECS), integrated thermal management (ITM), phase change heat transfer under hypergravity, pump-driven two-phase cooling (P2P), airborne vapor cycle system (VCS), and microchannel heat sinks (MCHSs). Our team has published more than 40 papers in top-tier journals which garnered over 1100 citations, and has filed more than 30 patent applications with over 10 patents already granted.