EMPLOYMENT
07/2023 – now, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University
01/2019 – 06/2023, William Marsh Rice Trustee Chair Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University
04/2016 – 12/2018, Principal Investigator, Rowland Institute, Harvard University
EDUCATION
09/2011 – 03/2016, PhD, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University
08/2007 – 07/2011, B.S., Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China
HONORS & AWARDS
2023 Highly Cited Researchers
2023 AIChE 35 Under 35 Award
2023 AIChE Young Investigator Award for Innovations in Green Process Engineering
2022 Highly Cited Researchers
2022 South Texas Section – AIChE Best Applied Paper Award
2022 Hershel M. Rich Invention Award
2021 Highly Cited Researchers
2021 Sloan Fellow
2021 AICHE NSEF Young Investigator Award
2020 Canadian Light Source Young Investigator Excellence Award
2020 Materials Today Rising Star Award
2020 Highly Cited Researchers
2020 Packard Fellow
2020 Roy E. Campbel Faculty Award
2020 Rice School of Engineering Young Faculty Research Award
2020 South Texas Section – AIChE’s 2019 Best Applied Paper Award
2019 Highly Cited Researchers
2019 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar
2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science
2018 South Texas Section – AIChE’s 2018 Best Fundamental Paper Award
2018 Highly Cited Researchers
2016 Rowland Fellow, Harvard University
2015 Silver Medal of Graduate Student Award, Material Research Society
2014 Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship
EDITORIAL POSITIONS
Associate Editor of Nano Letters
Editorial Board of Communications Materials
Advisory Board of Chem Catalysis