Chunhui Dai
Research Staff Member
Western Digital Technologies, Inc
Email: daidavid2020@gmail.com
CV: Link
Professional Experience
Research Staff Member 08/2022-present
Western Digital Technologies Inc.
Affiliated with DNA Data Storage Alliance
Visiting Scholar 08/2022-present
Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Alex Zettl
Postdoctoral Fellow 06/2020-07/2022
Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Advisor: Alex Zettl
Education
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 2020
• Advisor: Jeong-Hyun Cho
• Thesis Tittle: “Nanoscale Self-Assembly: Energetic Irradiation Triggering and in Situ Monitoring”
• Thesis Committee Member: Michael McAlpine, Bethanie Stadler, Joseph Talghader
B.S. Electrical Engineering State University of New York at Binghamton 2014
• Advisor: Seokheun Choi
Award
• Graduate Student Award (Silver), Material Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting 2019
• Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota 2019
• 3rd Place NSF Student Poster Competition, 2019 ASME IMECE 2019
• Best Poster Award, 2019 AVS Minnesota Chapter 2019
• Best Poster Award, MRS Fall Meeting 2018
• 1st Place NSF Student Poster Competition, 2018 ASME IMECE 2018
• NSF Student Poster Competition Travel Award, 2018 ASME IMECE 2018
• Best Poster Award (Third Place), IEM Annual Meeting and Retreat 2018
• Best Poster Award, MRS Fall Meeting 2017
• Image Contest Monthly Winner, JEOL Ltd. 2017
• Best Poster Award, MRS Fall Meeting 2016
• 3M Science and Technology Fellowship, 3M 2014-2018
• Best Paper Award, IEEE-NEMS 2014 2014
• Outstanding Senior in Electrical Engineering, Binghamton University, SUNY 2014
• Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher, Binghamton University, SUNY 2014
• Sodexo Scholarship, Binghamton University, SUNY 2013
• Undergraduate Research Award, Binghamton University, SUNY 2013
• Tau Beta Pi Honor Society 2013
• Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society 2013
Nominee:
• Best Dissertation Award Nominee (Only One from ECE), University of Minnesota 2021
• National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNIC) Image Contest Nominee 2020
• Best Poster Award Nominee, MRS 2019 Fall Meeting 2019
• Best Poster Award Runner-Up, 2018 AVS Minnesota Chapter 2018