Biosketch

Education and Employment

Full Professor, 2023 - Present 

Associate Professor, 2020 - 2023 

Assistant Professor, 2014 - 2020

Department of Physics

The University of Texas at Dallas

     Visiting Professor, 2022 

Department of Physics

     Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Postdoctoral Fellow, 01/2012 - 08/2014

     University of Pennsylvania

     Advisor: Professors Charles L. Kane and Eugene J. Mele

     Topics: Topological insulators and superconductors

     PhD 2011, Physics

     The University of Texas at Austin

     Advisor: Professor Allan H. MacDonald

     Thesis: Electronic correlations in few-layer graphene

     BS 2006, Physics, Special Class for the Gifted Young

     University of Science and Technology of China

Research Interests (in no particular order)

     Topological Matter 

     Correlated Electrons

     2D Materials

     Artificial Crystals 

     Machine Learning

Awards and Honors

     2026 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award, Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science & Technology (TAMEST)

     2025 APS Fellow, The American Physical Society (DCMP)

               Citation: “ For contributions to the theory of topologically non-trivial electronic and sonic crystals.”

     2024 Humboldt Research Award, The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany

     2020 NSF Career Award, The US National Science Foundation

     2013 Herbert B. Callen Memorial Prize, The University of Pennsylvania

               Citation: “ For pioneering contributions to the theory of interfacial electronic states 

                                 in topological insulators and topological superconductors.”

Publications [click here]

Selected Invited Talks/Lectures

      Tutorial: Correlated and Topological Electrons in Rhombohedral Graphene

      2025 American Physical Society March Meeting (APS Global Physics Summit), 03/16/2025

      New Phases in Rhombohedral Graphene

      Invited Symposium: Novel Correlated Phenomena in Rhombohedral-Stacked Graphene and Beyond

      2025 American Physical Society March Meeting (APS Global Physics Summit), 03/19/2025

      Symposium: Recent Advances and New Opportunities in van der Waals Heterostructures

      2025 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting and Exhibit, Seattle, April 9, 2025

     Moiré Quantum Geometry: From Fundamentals to Intelligent Sensing

     March Meeting, The American Physical Society, Las Vegas, 03/2023

     Quasi-One-Dimensional Topological Insulators and Superconductors: Bi4X4 (X=I,Br)

     Workshop: Quasi-1D Topological Quantum Materials, 01/2023 [view slides here] 

     EMA 2019, The American Ceramic Society, Orlando, 01/2019

     Mini School on Symmetry, Topology, and Interaction in Reduced Dimensions

     I. & II. Majorana Kramers Pairs

     III. Flavortronics in 2D Materials

     IV. Second-order Topological Matter 

     V. Magic-angle Bilayer Graphene

     Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai,10/2019

     Transport, Interactions, and Flavortronics in 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

     Condensed Matter Seminar, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany, 01/2022

     2019 American Physical Society March Meeting, Boston, 03/2019 [view slides here]

     Electrical Engineering Seminar, Yale University, 02/2019

     Dirac Superconductors

     Conference on Weyl Fermions in Materials, 10/2017

     Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy

     Weak Topological Insulators, Composite Weyl Semimetals, and Time-Reversal-Invariant Topological Superconductivity

     Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB, 09/24/2015 [view slides here]

     Topological Insulators and Beyond

     Workshop: Understanding Strongly Coupled Systems in HEP and CMP 

     Aspen Center for Physics, 05/28/2015

     Majorana Kramers Pairs and Z2×Z2 Fractional Josephson Effects

     Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB, 12/20/2013 [view slides here]

     Spontaneous Quantum Hall Liquids 

     2012 American Physical Society March Meeting, Boston, 03/2012 [view slides here]

     Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, Harvard University, 03/04/2011