Principal Investigator

B.S., 1996; M.S., 1998, Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China
Ph.D., 2002, Materials Science, University of Washington
Postdoc Fellow, 2003-2005, UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Staff Scientist, 2005-2006, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Assistant Professor, 2006-2011, UC Riverside
Associate Professor, 2011-2014, UC Riverside
Professor, 2014-present, UC Riverside

AAAS Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2026
Langmuir Lectureship Award, American Chemical Society, 2022
MRS Fellows, Materials Research Society, 2020
Highly Cited Researcher (2014-2025), Thomson Reuters and Clarivate Analytics
NML Researcher Award, Nano-Micro Letters, Nature Research Society, 2016
Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), 2016
NSF Career Award, 2010-2015
DuPont Young Professor Grant award, 2010-2013
3M Nontenured Faculty Grant award, 2010-2012
Top 100 in Chemistry and Materails Science, 2000-2010, ranked by citation impact, Thomson Reuters.
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, National Science Foundation, 2010
LabAutomation2010 Academic Travel Award, 2010
Distinguished Junior Faculty Award, 2010 (Chinese-American Chemistry Professor Association)
Cottrell Scholar Award, 2009-2012
The Robert T. Poe Faculty Development Grant, Chinese-American Faculty Association of Southern California, 2008
Regents' Faculty Fellowship, University of California, 2007