Professional Activities:

Appointments

• Assistant/Associate Professor with tenure in Biomedical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2005-present
• Research Fellow, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2003-2005
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, 2003-2005

Awards and Honors

• Jess N. Davis Award for Exemplary Research (2009)
• Procter & Gamble’s Awards for Outstanding Graduate Student, P&G Inc (1998)
• Motorola scholarship, Motorola Inc (1997)
• Yang Shi‐Xian Chemistry Scholarship, Yang Shi‐Xian Foundation(1995)
• Guanghua Fellowship, Guanghua Foundation, Taiwan (1993,1994,1996)
• Outstanding Undergraduate Student, Nankai University (1992)
• Wang Kechang Fellowship, Wang Kechang Foundation (1991,1990).