Experience

E Ink Corporation

• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Polymer Scientist

  • Jun 2022 - Present

  Fremont, California, United States Developing the next generation of electronic paper displays for various applications. Exploring the correlation between polymer coating performance and polymer formulations. Connecting fundamental materials R&D with display module products.



3M

• United States
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Research Engineer

  • Aug 2019 - May 2022

  Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area Structural adhesive (for automotive and e-bonding) formulation-structure-properties. Curing kinetics. Pressure sensitive adhesives. Polymer mechanics.



Northwestern University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Sep 2014 - Jun 2019

  Evanston, Illinois Studied fracture/fatigue of hydrogels/rubbers under mode I/III loading, using DIC. Elucidated the thermothickening mechanisms of colloidal dispersions. Introduced quaternized polyvinyl pyridine to polyelectrolyte family for making tough gels, and coacervates. Demonstrated solvent-temperature superposition principle in associating polymer solutions.

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Sep 2017 - Dec 2017

  Evanston, Illinois I was a full time teaching assistant (20hr/week) in MatSCI course 402, crystalline and non-crystalline materials. I was in charge of grading, hosting office hours, and giving a review lecture to the class.

• REU mentor

  • Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

  United States I mentored a REU student from Oberlin College through Northwestern REU program. The summer project was about the rheology of associating polymer solutions in mixed solvent conditions.



3M

• United States
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• 3M Graduate Fellow

  • Oct 2017 - Apr 2019

  United States



Tesla

• United States
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• R&D Intern

  • Jun 2018 - Sep 2018

  Palo Alto Rheology of cathode slurries



University of Science and Technology of China

• China
• Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Jun 2013 - Jun 2014

  Hefei, Anhui, China Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization of comb-shaped polymers for anion exchange membrane applications