Director, Raman, IR, and XRF Core Facility
https://www.umass.edu/ials/raman-ir-xrf-spectroscopy
Co-founder, BactiSee — Rapid Bacterial Detection | HerZeta Tech
May 2007 - Dec 2009 Ph.D. - Food Science University of Missouri-Columbia US
Sept 2004 - June 2006 Master in Agronomy - Plant Pathology Zhejiang University China
Sept 2000 - June 2004 Bachelor in Agronomy - Plant Protection Zhejiang University China
Sept 2026- present Professor, Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
Sept 2023 – Aug 2026 Professor and Department Head, Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
Sept 2022 – Aug 2023 Professor and Graduate Program Director, Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
Jan 2018 – Aug 2022 Associate Professor, Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
Jan 2021 – present Adjunct Faculty, Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
Oct 2019- present Director, Raman, IR, and XRF Core Facility, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
Nov 2021 - present Faculty member, Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
Jan 2016-present Faculty member, Institute of Applied Life Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
Jan 2020 -June 2020 Visiting Associate Professor. Department of Food Science and Technology, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Sept 2012- Dec 2017 Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
Nov 2009-Aug 2012 Postdoc/research associate, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA.
2026 Phi Tau Sigma Mid-Career Accomplishment Award
2026 Senior Member, National Academy of Inventors
2022-2025 Stanford/Elsevier World's Top 2% Scientists
2022 UMass Family Research Scholar
2021 UMass Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award
2019 Top 5% highly cited author in Royal Society of Chemistry’s analytical portfolio of journals
2018-2019 Top downloaded paper in Journal of Raman Spectroscopy
Most-cited paper of 2016 Journal of Food Science (Toxicology and chemical food safety section)
Most-cited paper of 2014 Journal of Food Science (Toxicology and chemical food safety section)
2017 UMass Faculty Convocation Award
2016 Talented 12 by C&EN, the official magazine of American Chemical Society
2016 Samuel Cate Prescott Award by Institute of Food Technologists
2016 Young Investigator Award by Eastern Analytical Symposium
2015 Young Scientist Award by American Chemical Society-Agricultural and Food Chemistry Division
2015 UMass Faculty Exceptional Merit Award
2012 Young Scientist Award by International Union of Food Science and Technology
Top ten articles in Analyst July 2011
Most-cited paper of 2008 Journal of Food Science (Toxicology and chemical food safety section)