Professional Experience
| 7/23 – current | Associate Professor Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA, USA |
| 7/17 – 6/23 | Assistant Professor Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA, USA |
| 1/17 – 6/17 | Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA |
| 9/16 – 12/16 | Visiting Assistant Professor ICERM, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA |
| 8/13 – 12/16 | Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, TR |
| 9/11 – 4/13 | Lawrence Fellow Advised by Mukul Kumar, LLNL, Livermore, CA, USA |
| 9/09 – 7/11 | Postdoctoral Scholar Advised by Prof. Robert D. MacPherson, IAS, Princeton, NJ, USA |
| 9/05 – 6/09 | Graduate Researcher Advised by Prof. Christopher A. Schuh, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA |
Education
| 9/06 – 6/09 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering |
| 9/01 – 6/05 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA B.S. in Physics |
Awards
| 22 | Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, College of Engineering, UC Davis |
| 21 | Graduate Program Advising and Mentoring Award, Graduate Studies, UC Davis |
| 20 | Hellman Fellowship Award, UC Davis |
| 20 | Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, College of Engineering, UC Davis |
| 19 | Instructor of the Year Award, Materials Science and Engineering, UC Davis |