Before joining Virginia Tech, she was a Post-doc Associate in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at MIT. She has received her PhD in aterials Science and Engineering from MIT (2011), MS in Materials Science and ngineering from SUNY-Stony Brook (2006) and BS in Materials Science from Fudan University in China (2004). She has authored and coauthored 26 papers published in premier journals including Science, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Communications, etc. Her papers have been cited for ver 6000 times in total. Her work on nanomaterials was covered by several edia outlets (Nanotechweb, Foresight, etc.). She was a recipient of Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Gold Medal (2010) and the ranslational Fellow at the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics (2013).