Experience

EnerVenue

• United States
• Electric Power Generation
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Staff Scientist

  • Jan 2022 - Present

• Senior Scientist

  • Nov 2020 - Dec 2021

  San Francisco Bay Area

• Scientist

  • Jul 2020 - Oct 2020

  San Francisco Bay Area



EEnotech, Inc.

• United States
• Nanotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Scientist

  • Nov 2018 - Jul 2020

  San Francisco Bay Area



New York University

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Associate

  • May 2017 - Oct 2018

  Greater New York City Area 1. Development of nanomaterial-based optical biosensors • Designed and fabricated of >10 MEMS devices using AutoCAD and lithography technique. • Designed and Fabricated gold nanopattern/SiO2 thin film nanoantenna array using PVD, plasma etching and e-beam lithography for optical sensing elements. Established microfluidic optical bio-sensing chips utilizing the gold nanoparticles as optical sensing elements. Using UV-Vis spectroscopy for measuring of protein conjugation on surface of… Show more 1. Development of nanomaterial-based optical biosensors • Designed and fabricated of >10 MEMS devices using AutoCAD and lithography technique. • Designed and Fabricated gold nanopattern/SiO2 thin film nanoantenna array using PVD, plasma etching and e-beam lithography for optical sensing elements. Established microfluidic optical bio-sensing chips utilizing the gold nanoparticles as optical sensing elements. Using UV-Vis spectroscopy for measuring of protein conjugation on surface of Au in water. Show less



Clemson University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jan 2013 - May 2017

  Clemson, SC 1. Scalable manufacturing and defect-engineered nanomaterials • Designed scalable roll-to-roll CVD synthesis techniques for graphene & carbon nanotubes (CNT). Tuning the defect structure of graphene (vacancies & N-dopants) via adjusting CVD synthesis parameters and plasma etching. Acquired thorough understanding of the thermodynamics and kinetics in PVD and CVD for a broad range of materials including semiconductors, dielectrics and metals. • Worked with various analytical equipment to… Show more 1. Scalable manufacturing and defect-engineered nanomaterials • Designed scalable roll-to-roll CVD synthesis techniques for graphene & carbon nanotubes (CNT). Tuning the defect structure of graphene (vacancies & N-dopants) via adjusting CVD synthesis parameters and plasma etching. Acquired thorough understanding of the thermodynamics and kinetics in PVD and CVD for a broad range of materials including semiconductors, dielectrics and metals. • Worked with various analytical equipment to characterize the defect-engineered materials, include Raman, FTIR, UV-Vis, AFM, SEM/EDX, TEM/SAED, XPS, EDX, BET and TGA. Familiar with the operating procedures and the basic principles of those characterization tools. 2. Defect-engineering of carbon nanomaterials for energy storage • Elucidated the role of N-doping configuration on the electrochemical properties of graphene. Enhanced specific capacitance of graphene for over 5 folds in supercapacitors. • Elucidated the role of vacancies and N-dopant in graphene-based Al-ion battery cathode, investigated the ion-intercalation processes using in-situ Raman analysis. 3. Elucidated Role of defects on the optical properties of thin-film materials • Fabricated Ag/C60 multilayer thin films, studied the effect of film thickness of the Ag/C60 films on their surface plasmonic fluoresce enhancement. • Elucidated the origin of 2450 cm-1 Raman peak in graphene by detailed analyzing of the dependence of Raman signal with temperature, laser energy, and sample defect density. • Conducted spectroscopic analysis (UV-Vis, Photoluminences, FTIR and Raman) to explore the interactions between engineered carbon nanomaterials with proteins.

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Sep 2011 - May 2013

  • Courses: PHYS 8750: Energy Storage in Carbon Nanomaterials. • Supervised 8 general physics lab sections, in total more than 120 undergraduate students. • Project Supervisor to summer intern, motivated undergraduate students to think creatively and design their research experiments. • Lectured graduate level electrochemistry class: Energy storage in carbon nanomaterials. • Project mentor for summer interns



Lanzhou University

• China
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Master Student

  • Aug 2008 - Jun 2011

  Lanzhou, Gansu, China • Developed new technique based on VSM to precisely measure the anisotropies and reversal process in bi-layer magnetic thin films. (Modeling using C, C++) • Designed and synthesized 10+ soft magnetic granular thin films for application in microwave with broad frequency range. Frequently utilized Magnetron Sputtering, VSM, SQUID, SEM, etc. • Lanzhou University certified technician of SQUID (Jan. 2009 – Jun. 2011)