APPOINTMENT
Associate Professor, University of Maryland, 2026-present
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, 2021-2026
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 2015-2020; Advisor: Hongkun Park
APPOINTMENT
Associate Professor, University of Maryland, 2026-present
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, 2021-2026
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 2015-2020; Advisor: Hongkun Park
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Applied Physics, Harvard University, 2015; Advisor: Shriram Ramanathan
B.S. in Physics, Peking University, 2010
AWARDS
Junior Faculty Outstanding Research Award, A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland, 2026
Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, 2023
Outstanding Young Scientist, Maryland Academy of Sciences & Maryland Science Center, 2023
IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize in Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter, 2023
Department of Energy Early Career Award, 2022
NSF CAREER Award, 2021
Forbes 30 Under 30 – Science, 2018
Top Reviewer, Applied Physics Letters, 2017, 2018
MRS Graduate Student Silver Award, Materials Research Society, Spring 2013
Ernst Habicht Fellowship, Harvard University, 2012
SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
Proposal Reviewer for Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and Dutch Research Council.
Journal Referee for more than 30 journals, including 2D Materials, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Advanced Materials, APL Materials, Applied Optics, Applied Physics Letters, IEEE Electron Device Letters, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Materials Today, Materials Today Chemistry, Materials Today Physics, Nano Letters, Nanoscale, Nanoscale Research Letters, Nature, Nature Communications, Nature Materials, Nature Reviews Materials, Optica, Optical Materials Express, Optics Express, Optics Letters, Physical Review Applied, Physical Review B, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review Materials, Physical Review X, Science, and Scientific Reports.
Organizer of Symposium on Correlated Insulating States in Two Dimensions, Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Harvard University 2020.
Session chair at MRS Fall Meeting, 2017.
RECENT INVITED TALKS & SEMINARS
18th Optics of Excitons in Confined Systems (OECS 18) conference, Italy (Jun. 2023)
University of California, Riverside (Apr. 2022).
University of Washington, Seattle (Apr. 2022).
Purdue University (Mar. 2022).
George Mason University (Nov. 2021).
National Institute of Standards and Technology (Aug. 2021).
Quantum Materials Center, University of Maryland (May 2021).
Budapest University of Technology and Economics (May 2021).