Curriculum Vitae

2007 .1 – 2010 .1 Master of Science in Applied Statistics

Syracuse University, Department of Mathematics, Syracuse, NY

Project: Confidence Interval of Principal Components Selection in NMR Spectra Analysis

2000 .9 – 2004 .7 Bachelor of Science in Polymer Chemistry

University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China

Thesis: Reversible addition−fragmentation chain transfer living polymerization of acryloyl azide polymer

ACADEMICAL EXPERIENCE

2010.10-Present Postdoctoral Researcher at Energy Biosciences Institute-UC Berkeley

Research activities: Mapping the plant cell wall with High Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (HR-NMR) spectroscopy to correlate biosynthetic genes with composition and ultrastructure of cell walls.

Advised by Professor Markus Pauly, collaborating with Professor David Wemmer and Dr. Dr. Jeff Pelton

2008.1-2010.9 Research Assistant in Professor Stipanovic’s Biomass & Bioenergy Project funded by USDA. Department of Chemistry, SUNY-ES

Research activities: explored a environmentally benign pretreatments scenario of lignocellulosic biomass including irradiation, biodegradation and autohydrolysis.

2007.1- 2007.12 Research Assistant in Professor Winter’s Cellulose Nanocomposites Project funded by EPA. Department of Chemistry, SUNY-ESF

Research activities: investigated the preparation and characterization of cellulose nanocomposites from lignocellulosic biomass

2005.5-2006.8 Research Assistant of Professor Winter’s Wood Biodegradation project funded by

USDA. Department of Chemistry, SUNY-ESF

Research activities: studied the mechanism of wood biodegradation by brown rot fungi using HR-MAS solid state NMR and metabonomics method

2003.3-2004.12 Research assistant in Professor’s Ruke Bai’s group, Department of Polymer Science

and Engineering, USTC, Hefei, China

Research activities: Synthesized an acryloyl azide polymer with ⁶⁰Co γ-Ray irradiation

TRAINNING

2011 summer Joint Bio-Energy Institute Lignin Workshop, Emeryville, CA

2008 summer American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Summer School, Golden Colorado

2007 summer LANSCE Neutron Summer School, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico

HONORS & SOCIAL ACTIVITIE

2010 Michael Szwarc Memorial Fellowship Award, SUNY-ESF

2009 Edwin Jahn Emeriti Faculty Award, SUNY-ESF

2008 Eastman Chemical Graduate Student Award, SUNY-ESF

2006 Awards to Outstanding Students in Academics, Scholarship and Leadership, SUNY-ESF

2006-2007 Chairman of Chinese Students and Scholars Association in SUNY-ESF

2005- Professional Memberships: American Chemical Society

SUMMARY OF EXPERTISE

Ø Chemistry knowledges: Organic/Polymer synthesis, Nanocomposites preparation, Natural products purification, Biomass pretreatments, Biorefinery, NMR Spectroscopy

Ø Analytical skills: 1D/2D NMR, DMA, DSC, TGA, FTIR, HPLC, GPC, GC-MS, SEM/TEM, X-ray

Ø Computer Skills: Microsoft Office, Mathematica, MATLAB, Origin, AutoCAD, SAS, Photoshop, etc.

Ø Statistical Analysis: DOE, Regression, ANOVA, MANOVA, PCA, PLS, Cluster, Discrimination, etc.

Ø Languages: fluent in English and Mandarin