Biography

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

9/16 – 12/16	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

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