{"id":230,"date":"2020-12-08T18:47:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T18:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/mason-new\/?page_id=230"},"modified":"2026-01-13T12:19:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:19:30","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/mason\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Professional Experience<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
7\/23 – current<\/td>\nAssociate Professor<\/strong>\nDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7\/17 \u2013 6\/23<\/td>\nAssistant Professor<\/strong>\nDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/17 \u2013 6\/17<\/td>\nVisiting Assistant Professor<\/strong>\nDepartment of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/16 \u2013 12\/16<\/td>\nVisiting Assistant Professor<\/strong>\nICERM, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8\/13 \u2013 12\/16<\/td>\nAssistant Professor<\/strong>\nDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i University, Istanbul, TR<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/11 \u2013 4\/13<\/td>\nLawrence Fellow<\/strong>\nAdvised by Mukul Kumar, LLNL, Livermore, CA, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/09 \u2013 7\/11<\/td>\nPostdoctoral Scholar<\/strong>\nAdvised by Prof. Robert D. MacPherson, IAS, Princeton, NJ, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/05 \u2013 6\/09<\/td>\nGraduate Researcher<\/strong>\nAdvised by Prof. Christopher A. Schuh, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Education<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n
9\/16 \u2013 12\/16<\/td>\nMassachusetts Institute of Technology<\/strong>, Cambridge, MA, USA\nPh.D.<\/strong> in Materials Science and Engineering<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/01 \u2013 6\/05<\/td>\nMassachusetts Institute of Technology<\/strong>, Cambridge, MA, USA\nB.S.<\/strong> in Physics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Awards<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
22<\/td>\nOutstanding Faculty Teaching Award, College of Engineering, UC Davis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21<\/td>\nGraduate Program Advising and Mentoring Award, Graduate Studies, UC Davis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/td>\nHellman Fellowship Award, UC Davis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/td>\nOutstanding Faculty Teaching Award, College of Engineering, UC Davis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19<\/td>\nInstructor of the Year Award, Materials Science and Engineering, UC Davis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biography Professional Experience 7\/23 – current Associate Professor Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA, USA 7\/17 \u2013 6\/23 Assistant Professor Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA, USA 1\/17 \u2013 6\/17 Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH USA 9\/16 \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-230","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/mason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/mason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/mason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/mason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/mason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/mason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/mason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/mason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}