Employment

• 2023 - present
  • Codirector, Central User Facilities, HKU
• 2022 - present
  • Global STEM Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, HKU
• 2018 - 2022
  • Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
• 2017 - 2019
  • Project coordinator and Principal Investigator of multiple international collaborative projects and industrial sponsored research project, including HKUST-MIT Consortium project
• 2017 - 2018
  • Visiting Professor(sabbatical), Southern University of Science and Technology
• 2016 - present
  • Co-Founder and Chief Scientist (consultant), Boston Micro Fabrication Company
• 2014 - present
  • Co-Editor in Chief, Frontiers in Optics and Photonics
• 2011 - 2018
  • Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
• 2009 - 2010
  • Affiliate Faculty, Institute of Genomic Biology, UIUC
• 2005 - 2010
  • Assistant Professor, Beckman Institute, UIUC
• 2004 - 2010
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Sciences and Eng., UIUC

Honors and recognitions

• 2023: NUSS Distinguished Visiting Professorship, National University of Singapore
• 2021: Fellow of Optical Society of America
• 2021: PRISM Award
• 2015: Top 10 Emerging breakthrough technologies of the year
• 2013: Fellow, International Society for Nanomanufacturing (ISNM)
• 2013: ASME Chao and Trigger Young Manufacturing Engineer Award
• 2011: ICO prize/Ernest Abbe Medal, by the International Commission for Optics
• 2011: d’Arbeloff Career Development Chair, MIT
• 2010: Cambridge Who’s Who Professional of the Year in Higher Education
• 2010: Xerox Faculty Award, UIUC
• 2009: SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineers Award
• 2009: NSF CAREER Award
• 2008: MIT Technology Review Magazine’s 35 Young Innovators Award
• 2007: UIUC Engineering Council Award of Excellence in Advising
• 2006: ASME Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal Award recipient
• 2003: Outstanding PhD Student Award, UCLA