Appointments
Meta Optical Engineer, AR Glasses (2024-Present)
Optical Systems Scientist (2019-2024)
Stanford University Postdoctoral Scientist (2017-2019)
Meta Optical Engineer, AR Glasses (2024-Present)
Optical Systems Scientist (2019-2024)
Stanford University Postdoctoral Scientist (2017-2019)
PhD in Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2011-2017)
BS in Physics Nanyang Technological University (NTU) (2004-2008)
Exchange student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (2006)
Reviewer for U.S. DOE Office of Science Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR/STTR) Programs
Reviewer for U.S. DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Awards
Chair, Gordon Research Seminar, Ultrafast Phenomena in Cooperative Systems (2018)
Committee, MSE Department Colloquium, Stanford University (2018-2019)
Committee, CLEO 2021
Session Chair, APS March Meeting (2016, 2017, 2018), CLEO 2019
Journal Referee for Nature, Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Nano Letters, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Physical Review X, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics
APS Richard L. Greene Dissertation Award in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics (2019)
Stanford, GLAM Postdoctoral Fellowship (2017)
Springer Nature Thesis Award (2017)
Ambassador's Award for Excellence (2017)
MIT Avery Ashdown Leadership Award
MIT Energy Initiative ABB Fellowship
IPS Book Prize
NTU Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal (2008)
NTU University Scholars Award (2008)
NTU Teaching Assistant Excellence Awards
NTU President Research Scholar URECA
ASEAN Scholarship
Silver Medal, International Physics Olympiad (35th IPhO) (2004)
(Apr 2023) Vanderbilt Biophotonics Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
(Apr 2022) Tilikum Crossing Seminar Series, OHSU School of Dentistry, Portland, OR, USA
(Apr 2021) Optics and the Brain - Biophotonics Congress, USA.
Title: Diffuse correlation spectroscopy for brain-computer interface applications
(Jul 2021) 7th International Symposium on Graphene Devices. Washington, DC, USA.
(Jul 2019) University of Cambridge, Dept of Physics Seminar. Cambridge, UK.
(Apr 2019) CLEO 2019 - Nonlinear THz Phenomena. San Jose, USA.
(Mar 2019) APS Richard L. Greene Dissertation Award Talk. Boston, USA.
(Mar 2019) UCLA, CMP Seminar. Los Angeles, CA, USA.
(Mar 2019) Columbia University, CMP Seminar. New York, NY, USA.
(Mar 2019) University of Maryland, QTC Seminar. College Park, MD, USA.
(Mar 2019) Harvard University, CMP Seminar. Cambridge, MA, USA.
(Feb 2019) Caltech, CMP Seminar. Pasadena, CA, USA.
(Feb 2019) EPFL, Institute of Physics. Lausanne, Switzerland.
(Feb 2019) Yale University, Solids State & Optics Seminar. New Haven, CT, USA.
(Feb 2019) UC Riverside, Dept of Physics Seminar. Riverside, CA, USA.
(Jan 2019) UC Santa Barbara, Physics Colloquium. Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
(Jan 2019) University of Chicago, JFI Seminar. Chicago, IL, USA.
(Jan 2019) Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE) Winter Colloquium. Snowbird, UT, USA.
(Nov 2018) Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science. Beijing, China.
(Nov 2018) Sun Yat-Sen University. Guangzhou, China.
(Sep 2018) SLAC Ultrafast Electron Diffraction Workshop. Stanford, USA.
(Jul 2018) ICM Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Strongly Correlated Systems. San Francisco, USA.
(Oct 2017) American Vacuum Society (AVS) Conference. Florida, USA.
(Sep 2017) Nanyang Technological University - PAP Seminar. Singapore.
(May 2017) University of Mainz - Nonequilibrium Quantum Matter. Mainz, Germany.
(Feb 2017) SPIE Photonics West - Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics. San Fransisco, USA.
(Nov 2016) Stanford University - SIMES Seminar. Palo Alto, USA.
(June 2016) University of Bremen - ITP Seminar. Bremen, Germany.
(May 2016) Max Planck Institute - MPSD Seminar. Hamburg, Germany.
(Apr 2016) SPIE Conference - Ultrafast Bandgap Photonics. Baltimore, USA.
(Feb 2016) Gordon Research Seminar - Ultrafast Phenomena in Cooperative Systems. Lucca, Italy.
(Dec 2015) Boston University - CMT Seminar. Boston, USA.
(Sep 2015) Harvard University - BACON Seminar. Cambridge, USA.
(Sep 2015) Harvard University - ITAMP Seminar. Cambridge, USA.
(Mar 2015) Quantum and Dirac Materials Conference. Santa Fe, USA.
(Dec 2014) Nanyang Technological University - PAP Seminar. Singapore.
(Nov 2014) Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica. Taipei, Taiwan.
(Nov 2014) National Tsing-Hua University - MST Seminar. Hsinchu, Taiwan.