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
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
Contribution: “ for his pioneering contributions to the theory of interfacial electronic states
in topological insulators and topological superconductors.”
Publications [click here]
Selected Invited Talks/Lectures
Moiré Quantum Geometry: From Fundamentals to Intelligent Sensing
Workshop on Advancing Materials and Molecules via Data Science, Minneapolis, 09/2023
March Meeting, The American Physical Society, Las Vegas, 03/2023
Strongly Interacting Electrons in Elementary Bilayer Graphene
Condensed Matter Seminar, Boston College, 12/2022
Condensed Matter Seminar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 12/2022
Condensed Matter Seminar, Stony Brook University, 12/2022
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
March Meeting, The American Physical Society, 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
From Topological Insulators to Majorana Fermions
Physics Colloquium, Duke University, 03/24/2014
Condensed Matter Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, 02/06/2014
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 [view slides here]
March Meeting, The American Physical Society, Boston, 03/2012
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, Harvard University, 03/04/2011