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