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

Langmuir Lectureship Award, American Chemical Society, 2022
MRS Fellows, Materials Research Society, 2020
Highly Cited Researcher 2017 (Chemistry), Clarivate Analytics, 2017,2018, 2019, 2020, 2021,and 2022
NML Researcher Award, Nano-Micro Letters, Nature Research Society, 2016
Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), 2016
Highly Cited Researcher in Chemistry and Material Science (Thomson Reuters, 2014, 2015, and 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