Principle Investigator

Professional Experience

• 2023 - Now   Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore

• 2019 - 2022  Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University (Advisor: Prof. Peng Chen)

Education

• 2015 - 2019  Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology (Advisor: Prof. Younan Xia)

• 2012 - 2015  M.E., Nanjing University (Advisor: Prof. Jianguo Liu)

• 2008 - 2012  B.S., Nanjing University

Teaching

• MLE5240, Light-Harvesting Materials for Sustainability 

• MLE5221, Design Materials for Renewable Fuels and Clean Water 

Selected Honors & Awards

• Nano Letters Early Career Board, 2025

• Journal of Materials Chemistry A Emerging Investigators, 2024

• NRE Young Star Researcher Award (Gold Award), 2022

• Sigma Xi Best Doctoral Dissertation, 2020

• William Emerson First Place Presentation Award, 2019

• MRS Best Poster Award Nominee, 2018

• Cherry Emerson Fellowship, 2015

Professional Offices & Services

• Subject Editor, Progress in Engineering Science (2024 - present)

• Guest Associate Editor of a special topic on Diversifying Chemical Synthesis with Cascade Catalysis, Frontiers in Chemistry, 2024

• Guest Editor of a special Issue on Early Career Electrochemists in Asia, ChemElectroChem, 2024

• Member of Young Advisory Board, Green Carbon, 2023

• Member of Young Advisory Board, Nano Materials Science, 2023

Selected Presentations

• Phase-regulatable Ru-based nanocages for highly efficient alkaline hydrogen evolution, 12th Singapore International Chemistry Conference, Singapore, December 2024

• Single-molecule imaging of molecular adsorption for materials design and heterogeneous catalysis, 1st CityUHK-CREATE Workshop on Advanced Catalyst Development for Electrochemical Carbon Abatement, Hong Kong, China, October 2024

• Super-resolution imaging of nonfluorescent molecules on nanocatalysts, 1st International Symposium on Chemical and Biomedical Imaging (CBMI-1), Nanjing, China, August 2024 (Keynote Speaker)

• Long-range adsorption enhancement on metal-promoted photocatalysts, 34th Chinese Chemical Society Congress, Guangzhou, China, June 2024

• Nanoscale mapping of molecular adsorption for materials design and heterogeneous catalysis, 3rd Singapore ECS International Symposium on Energy Materials, Singapore, July 2023 

• Nanocatalysts with novel crystal phases and their structure-property relationship toward heterogeneous catalysis, Nano Research Energy Symposium, December 2022 

• Engineering both the crystal phase and surface structure of noble-metal nanocrystals, American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall Meeting, Atlanta, United States, August 2021

• Rational synthesis of Ru-based nanocages with a face-centered-cubic and evaluation of their catalytic activities, Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting, Phoenix, United States, April 2018

• Mechanism investigation of proton exchange membrane fuel cells, The 5th World Hydrogen Technologies Convention (WHTC2013), Shanghai, China, September 2013