Professional Activities:

Honors And Awards:

• Wong K. C. (Hong Kong) Research Award (2011)
• Featured at Rutgers Today (Feb. 25 2010)
• The Rutgers Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence (2009)
• Being selected as Feature Professor in Rutgers 2009 Annual Report.
• Nominated for The New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists (2009).
• Graduate student awards (He’s Lab): Oleh Taratula won GRASP Outstanding Excellence Awards (2007); the second prize for his posters onThe Frontiers of nanotechnology & biotechnology: integration and invention, 21th Annual International Symposium for Study of Gene Structure & Function (2008); Gallo Award on Annual Retreat on Cancer Research in New Jersey (2008) and The New Jersey Cancer Research Award for Scientific Excellence (2009). Alex Minghua Chen won 2009 Graduate School Dean’s Doctoral Dissertation Award for an outstanding doctoral dissertation. Keerthi Savaram won the best poster award in the Annual research retreat 2014.

Research Experience:

07/2009~ Present	Associate Professor Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University at Newark. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
09/2008~ 07/2009	Sabbatical leave inProf. Tamara Minko’s lab, Department of Pharmaceutical, Rutgers University at Piscataway Nanotechnology forDrug Delivery for Efficient Cancer Therapy
09/2002~ 04/2009	Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University at Newark. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
07/2001 ~ 08/2002	Faculty Research Associate with Prof. Nongjian Tao Department of Electrical Engineering and Centre for Solid State Electronics Research, Arizona State University Nano/Molecule Electronics and Microelectronics Fabrication
07/1999 ~ 06/2001	Postdoctoral Research Associate with Prof. Nongjian Tao Physics Department, Florida International University Conducting polymer nanowires and nanoswitch, metallic quantum nanowires ¾ Fabrication and application in ultra sensitive chemical/ biosensor
09/1997 ~ 06/1999	Research Associate with Prof. Sam Fongyou Li Institute of Materials Research & Engineering, National University of Singapore Plastic lab-on-chip by soft lithography
08/1992 ~ 09/1994	Assistant Research Fellow withProf. Pengzhou Zhang Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences Fabrication of SiC Fibres by CVD method

 

Professional Service:

Editorial Board Member

• Materials Research Express (MRX)
• ISRN Nanotechnology