• Ph. D, Physics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Aug, 2008-Dec, 2014. Advisor: Prof. Kirill D. Belashchenko

     Concentration: Condensed matter theory and materials science

• B. S., Physics, Beihang University, Sep, 2004- Jun, 2008

• Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina, 2022/08–present. 

• Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2019/01–2022/08. (Advisor: Prof. Chris G. Van de Walle)

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2015/10–2018/12. (Advisor: Prof. G. Malcolm Stocks)

• Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2015/1–2015/9. (Advisor: Prof. Kirill D. Belashchenko)

• Outstanding Postdoctoral Researcher Award by Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center, UCSB (2021) 

• Outstanding Reviewer Award for Acta Materialia (2020)

• Fellowship, Summer School: Electronic Structure Theory for Materials and (Bio)molecules, UCLA, (2014)

• Travel award, Gordon Conference on Multiferroic and Magnetoelectric Materials, University of New England, (2014)