Positions
2015 – Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University
2015 – Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Boston University
2016 – Assistant Professor of Physics, Boston University
2016 – Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Prof., Boston University
Education
2011 – 2015 Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University (Prof. Chad A. Mirkin)
2006 – 2011 PhD, SM in Applied Physics, Harvard University (Prof. Robert M. Westervelt)
2002 – 2006 SB in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Awards & Honors
Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Professor 2016
MSE Innovation Award, Boston University 2016
Finalist in the Collegiate Inventors Competition 2014
AVS Nanometer-Scale Science and Technology Division Postdoctoral Award 2014
Omar Farha Award for Research Leadership, Department of Chemistry, NU 2013
2nd place overall, Northwestern University Scientific Image Contest 2013
3rd place Poster Award, Seeing at the Nanoscale 2013
International Institute for Nanotechnology Outstanding Researcher Award 2012
International Institute for Nanotechnology Postdoctoral Fellow 2011
Certificate of Distinction for Teaching, Harvard University 2008
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow 2007
Professional Experience
Peer Reviewer, Ultramicroscopy, Advanced Materials Interfaces, Scientific Reports, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, The Journal of the American Chemical Society, Applied Physics Letters, The Journal of Applied Physics, Optics Express, and The Journal of Materials Chemistry
Executive Committee, Nanoscale Science and Technology Division of the American Vacuum Society 2016
Panelist, NDSEG evaluation panel 2013-2015
Member, American Vacuum Society 2013
Member, Materials Research Society 2010
Member, American Physical Society 2007
Panelist, National Science Foundation 2015
Teaching
ME 500 - Nanomanufacturing and Hierarchical Materials (Spring 2018)
ME 303 - Fluid Mechanics (Fall 2017)
ME 306 - Introduction to Materials Science (Spring 2017)
ME 303 - Fluid Mechanics (Fall 2016)
ME 303 - Fluid Mechanics (Fall 2015)
Seminars and Invited Presentations
Natick Soldier RD&E Center, Army Research Lab, Natick, MA May 2017
The Science of Stuff: Research on Tap, Boston University, Boston MA Feb. 2017
Bioenabled Materials Synthesis & Assembly ASPSM, ARL, Aberdeen, MD Dec. 2016
Nanomanufacturing Center Seminar, U. Mass Lowell, Lowell MA Sept. 2016
Translational Research in Biomaterials, Boston University, Boston, MA April 2016
Photonics Forum, Boston University, Boston, MA March 2016
AVS International Symposium 62, San Jose, CA Oct 2015
Physical Chemistry Seminar, Boston University, Boston, MA Sept. 2015
Materials & Manufacturing Directorate, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH Aug. 2015
Electro-Optics and Photonics Division Seminar, Army Research Lab, Adelphi, MD Aug. 2015
Weapons and Materials Directorate, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen, MD Aug. 2015
IIN Frontiers in Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL March 2015
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA Feb. 2015
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX Feb. 2015
Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Penn State, State College, PA Jan. 2015
Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA Dec. 2014
Natural Materials and Systems Program Review (for Prof. Mirkin) Dec. 2014
BIP, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Nov. 2014
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, NYU, New York, NY Oct. 2014
Advanced Science Research Center, CUNY, New York, NY Oct. 2014
AVS Prairie Chapter Symposium, Loyola University, Chicago, IL Sep. 2014
School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Feb. 2014
Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC, Urbana-Champaign, IL Jan. 2014
Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA Jan. 2014
Nano Bio Info Tech (NBIT) Program Review, Seoul, Korea (for Prof. Mirkin) July 2013
The 57th EIPBN (Three Beams), Nashville, TN May 2013
US-KOREA Joint Symposium of Nanotechnology, Dallas, TX (for Prof. Mirkin) May 2012
CNM Seminar, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL April 2011
Solid State & Optics Seminar, Yale University, New Haven, CT Feb. 2011
Nanomechanics AFM Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Oct. 2010
Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center Research Exchange, Cambridge, MA April 2010
Issued Patents (12 patent applications filed)
X. Liao, W. Shim, C. A. Mirkin, S. He, K. A. Brown, G. Liu, A. L. Schmucker, D. J Eichelsdoerfer, B. Rasin, “Heat Actuated and Projected Lithography Systems and Methods” U. S. Patent 9,766,551, September 19 (2017).
T. P. Hunt, R. M. Westervelt, A. Bleszyinski, J. Aguilar, K. A. Brown, “Dielectrophoretic tweezers apparatus and methods” U. S. Patent 8021532 B2, September 20 (2011).