Professional Preparation

• University of Cambridge (England). BA (1987), MA (1989)
• University of British Columbia (Canada). MSc (1989)
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA). PhD (1993)
• Max Planck Institute for Solid State Physics (Germany). 1994-5

Appointments

Dean, School of Science and Mathematics, The Citadel, 2012-
Professor and Chair, Department of Physics, Wright State University, 2004-12
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Electrical Engineering, WSU, 2008-12
Director, Hong Kong Project Center, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2003-4
Co-director, IPG Photonics Lab, WPI, 2000-4
Associate Professor, WPI, 2001-4
Assistant Professor, WPI, 1997-2001
Visiting Assistant Professor, WPI, 1995-7

Research Visits

Visiting Professor, University of Southern Denmark, summer 2009, 2010
Balslev Visiting Professor, University of Southern Denmark, fall 2003
Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, Stanford University, winter 2002
Visiting Scholar, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, summer 2001
Research Associate, Air Force Research Lab, Wright-Patterson AFB, summer 1998

Honors and Awards

Sonderborg Kommune Prize, Denmark, 2009
Balslev Award, Denmark, 2003
NSF CAREER Award, 2000
Nomination, Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education, WPI, 1999-2000
Provost's MQP (Senior Project) Award for Advising (1999, 2000, 2002, 2004)
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, 1994-5
Sigma Xi Doctoral Research Award, 1993
Tate & Lyle Cambridge Commonwealth Scholarship, 1984-7

Special Skills

Languages: Chinese (elementary), English, French (fluent), German (intermediate level), Spanish (intermediate level)

Scholarship Record

• 96 peer-reviewed papers
• 1000+ citations (h-index=15)
• Over $1,000,000 funding
• Books:
  • "The k.p Method'' (Springer Verlag, 2009)
  • "Separable Boundary-Value Problems in Physics'' (Wiley-VCH, 2011)

Other Accomplishments

• Editorial Board: ISRN Nanomaterials (2012-), Open Journal of Acoustics (2011-), J. College Science Teaching (2000)
• Scientific Committee: EMCMRE-2 conference (France, 2013); RADIO conference (Mauritius, 2012); EMCMRE-1 conference (Morocco, 2011)
• Guest editor, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 107, No. 1 (2008)
• Co-organizer, Minisymposium on Quantum Mechanics and Links to Continuum Models at the US Congress on Continuum Mechanics (Ohio State University, July 2009)
• Co-organizer, Physics-based Mathematical Models of Low-Dimensional Semiconductor Nanostructures: Analysis and Computation (Banff International Research Station, Canada, Nov 2007)
• Session chair, Band structure theory, APS March meeting (Montreal, 2004)

Invited Talks

• First International Conference on Silicene (Morocco, July 2010). Keynote speaker
• Centre Europeen de Calcul Atomique et Moleculaire Workshop, Empirical methods in semiconductor nano-structures design and modeling (Dublin, June 2010) Congreso Latinoamericano de Fisica de Superficies y sus Aplicaciones (Santa Marta, Colombia, Dec 2007)
• Symposium on Advanced Dielectric Materials and Electronic Devices, M S & T '06 (Cincinnati, Oct 2006)
• Silicon Heterostructures Conference (Barga, Italy, Sept 1997)
• Seminars: Auburn U., Case Western Reserve U., Clark U., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Millersville University, National Renewable Energy Lab, National Science Foundation, New Mexico State University, Ohio Northern University, Ohio University, Stanford, ICTP (Trieste), U. British Columbia, U. Connecticut, U. Costa Rica, U. Dayton, U. Florida Gainesville, U. de Los Andes (Colombia), U. del Valle (Colombia), U. Puerto Rico (Rio Piedras), U. Sheffield (UK), West Virginia U, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Wright-Patterson AFB, Wright State University