Professional Activities

Professional Experience:

• Assistant Professor, Aug. 2010-Present, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota
• Post Doctoral Fellow, Aug. 2007-Aug. 2010, University of Dayton/Georgia Institute of Technology Supervisors: Dr. Liming Dai and Dr. Zhong L. Wang
• Graduate Research Assistant, Aug. 2003-Aug. 2007. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Advisors: Dr. Zhong L. Wang
• Teaching Assistant, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001-2003

Awards

• 3M Nontenured Faculty Award, 2014
• McKnight Land Grant Professorship (2013-2015)
• NSF Early Faculty Development (CAREER) Program Award (2012-2017)
• School of Materials Science and Engineering Advanced Publication Award (2005)
• Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad (2004) (top 1%)

Other Activities

• Co-organizer of a symposium for MRS spring meeting, 2014 and 2015, at San Francisco, CA
• Session chair for MRS spring meeting, 2012, at San Francisco, CA.
• NSF proposal review panelist in 2012 and 2013, at Washington DC.
• Energy Session chair for the 7th Annual Minnesota Nanotechnology Workshop, November, 2011 at Minneapolis, MN.
• Guest editor of a special issue titled Nanoscale Energy Harvesting in the journal Energy Harvesting and Systems
• Reviewers for Applied Physics Letters, Nanotechnology, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Physics, Nature Communications, and other journals. Proposal review for the U.S. Department of Energy.