EMPLOYMENTS

• 2023 -

Associate Professor

Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering 

Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University

• 2018 - 2023

Assistant Professor

Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University

• 2015 - 2018

Assistant Professor 

Department of Biomedical Engineering 

SUNY Stony Brook

ACADEMIC TRAINING 

• 2010 - 2014 

Postdoctoral Fellow (Advisor: Xiaowei Zhuang) 

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Harvard University

• 2005 - 2010 

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Jason W. Fleischer) 

Ph.D. Minor in Physics 

Department of Electrical Engineering

Princeton University

• 2001 - 2005

B.S. in Electrical Engineering (Advisors: Jiangde Peng, Wei Zhang, Yidong Huang)  

Department of Electrical Engineering

Tsinghua University

HONORS AND AWARDS

• GT Sigma Xi Best Faculty Paper Award, 2024

• NSF CAREER Award, 2022-2027

• Marvin H. and Nita S. Floyd Research Fund Award, 2022 

• Maximizing Investigators' Resource Award (MIRA), National Institutes of Health, 2017-2027

• Dean's Award for Research Leadership, Stony Brook University, 2017

• DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2016-2018

• Optics in 2014, Optical Society of America, 2014

• Travel Award, Biophysical Society 57th Annual Meeting, 2013

• Travel Grant, International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (IMACS), 2009

• Best Paper Award, The Sixth IMACS International Conference, 2009

• Best Paper Award, Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America, 2008

• Princeton Graduate Fellowship, 2005