Education 

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

Positions and employment

Sep 2023 –                 Professor and Department Head, Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.

Sep 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.

Honors/awards

• 2022 UMass Family Research Scholar Award

• 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)