• Supervise equipment usage, provide hands-on and remote training, perform instrument maintenance and troubleshooting for 20+ precision research equipment.• Develop and implement laboratory policies, SOPs and other necessary documentation.• Perform professional materials characterization service with electronic and optical microscopes, spectrometers, etc. for industrial and academic customers.• Teach graduate-level classes on material characterization technologies.• Host academic and educational events, such as summer schools and STEM field trips.

I. Magnetic Nanoparticles: (a) Discovered an economical method to synthesize an auto-fluorescent non-toxic magnetic nanoparticles and polymers(b) Modified surfaces (coating) of magnetic nanoparticles with polymers and lipids to control their charge and/or hydrophilism.II. Colloidal Suspensions: (a) Synthesized polymer particles in different sizes and built colloidal crystals.(b) Discovered the evolution of a self-assembly structure in a nematic liquid crystal colloid (NLCC) system corresponding to the phase transition from a spinodal demixing to a nucleation-and-growth mechanismIII. Instrument DevelopmentBuilt up a confocal rheoscope to study the dynamic behaviors of colloidal suspensions under well-controlled stress

(a) Developed a new hydrodynamic model of a two-dimensional system coupling with a three-dimensional one under the collaboration with mathematicians and engineers and successfully designed experiments to support the result. (b) Discovered the correlation of the line tension and structures of polymer and smectic liquid crystal Langmuir films. (c) Designed and built up a compact Brewster Angle Microscope.

I was selected as one of best TA's for the innovative laboratory course and received very favorable student evaluations.Teaching Experience:(1) College Physics, laboratory and recitation sections (3 years)(2) University Physics, laboratory section (2 years)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCEStudied the topography and tribology of Self-Assembled Monolayers (SAM) with mixed compoundsTEACHING EXPERIENCEClassical Mechanics, laboratory and recitation sections (2 years)