Associate Professor
Department of Physics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Broida Hall 6137
Work phone: 805-893-4029
Email:
Previous graduate student: Christian Griset, Jeremy Oon, Kevin Slagle (now at University of Toronto);
Current graduate student: Zhen Bi, Alex Rasmussen, Kelly Ann Pawlak;
Previous postdoctoral researcher: Dr. Eun-Gook Moon (now at KAIST), Dr. Yi-Zhuang You (now at Harvard, will join UCSD as faculty)
1, Strongly correlated electron system ;
2, Quantum phase transitions and quantum criticalities ;
3, Frustrated magnets and exotic quantum ground states ;
4, Symmetr protected topological phases ;
5, Non-fermi liquid states.
July 2014 until now,
Associate Professr, Department of physics, UCSB ;
July 2010 ~ June 2014,
Assistant Professr, Department of physics, UCSB ;
July 2007 ~ June 2010,
Junior fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University;
May 2007,
PhD of physics, Department of physics, UC Berkeley, Advisor: Prof. Joel E. Moore;
June 2003,
Bachelor of Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, 2012, awarded by the David & Lucile Packard Foundation;
National Science Foundation Career Award, 2012;
Hellman Family Faculty Fellowship, 2012;
Outstanding Young Researcher Award, Oversea Chinese Physics Association, 2011;
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2011;