Honors and Awards
2020 Selected speaker for North American Materials Colloquium Series
- The only student/postdoc selected from Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC
2017 The S. J. Stein Prize, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania
- Awarded to one Ph.D. or M.S.E. degree recipient for superior achievement in the field of new or unique materials or applications for materials in electronics.
Invited Talk
2020 North American Materials Colloquium Series
“Strain-induced electrochemical inhomogeneity in cathode nanoparticles revealed at atomic level”
Research Mentor
2017 – present Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC
- Mentor three Ph.D. students (Zhichu Tang, Chu-Yun Hwang, and Lehan Yao). We published three peer-reviewed papers together and we have three more papers to be submitted.
- Lehan Yao received Warren Yee Memorial Fellowship, College of Engineering, UIUC (2021)
2012 – 2017 Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
- Mentored two graduate students (Prashanth Gopalan and Naixin Song)
- Mentees obtained M.S. degrees and then got admission to D. programs at the University of Utah and University of Pennsylvania, respectively.
Services to broaden diversity and inclusions
2023 Lunch (including short presentation) with speakers of Distinguished Lectures, Department of Chemistry, UIUC
2019 Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC
- Mentor one high school student for six weeks through the World Wide Youth in Science and Engineering Program, UIUC.
- I guided the mentee in building rechargeable ion batteries and performing electrochemical tests in the lab. My colleague and I introduced our computing and graphic techniques to the mentee.
2019 Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC
- Successful completion of the Illinois Mentoring Certificate Program
2017 Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia Science Festival: presented demonstrations on “shape-memory alloy” to the general public visitors
2016 & 2017 Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
- “Girls in Engineering, Math, and Science Camp” (known as Penn GEMS): presented demonstrations on “light propagation” and guided high-school students with hands-on activities
2016 Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
- Mentored one undergraduate through Summer Undergraduate Fellowship in Sensor Technologies (SUNFEST) program, University of Pennsylvania. We conducted experiments, analyzed data, and published a paper together.
Academic service
2023 Panel of students/postdocs to meet with the faculty candidates, Department of Chemistry, UIUC (January 3)
2022 Microscopy & Microanalysis, Portland, OR (July 31–August 4)
Session chair for “P05: In situ TEM characterization of dynamic processes during materials synthesis and processing”