• Working on application, management, and maintenance of analytical chemistry instrumentation (LC/MS, GC/MS, SEM, Elemental Analysis, UV, and IR) and software• Developing research methodologies, approaches, methods, and techniques (LPME, SPME) for food/environmental matrix pretreatment and determination• Teaching university students the operation, daily maintenance, and precautions of Elemental Analysis• Working closely with customers/students, understand their needs, give… Show more • Working on application, management, and maintenance of analytical chemistry instrumentation (LC/MS, GC/MS, SEM, Elemental Analysis, UV, and IR) and software• Developing research methodologies, approaches, methods, and techniques (LPME, SPME) for food/environmental matrix pretreatment and determination• Teaching university students the operation, daily maintenance, and precautions of Elemental Analysis• Working closely with customers/students, understand their needs, give solutions, and report results and feedbacks• Taking responsibilities to plan, develop and conduct individual/collaborative research projects, proposals and winning fundings. Show less

• Collaborated with team members to solve structural identification of organic compounds (medicines, chemicals) with analytical techniques (HPLC, MS, Elemental Analysis)• Screened specific metabolites/biomarkers (pterins) for early cancer diagnosis (stomach cancer)

• Initiated deep eutectic solvents for extraction of aflatoxins in rice and edible oils • Worked on N and O-rich porous carbons for gas separation• Conducted porous carbon materials synthesis and characterization using SEM, TEM, XRD, TGA and elemental analysis• Understood lab workflows at ASU and collaborated with diverse team members• Published research manuscripts, wrote proposals and reports

• Preparation design and optimization of nontoxic, low-cost and effective hydrophilic deep eutectic solvents.• Research on chemical and physical properties of deep eutectic solvents using densitometer, viscometer, FT-IR, NMR, elemental analysis and LC-MS.• Explore the application feasibility of deep eutectic solvents in food sample pretreatment key section in analytical chemistry, food quality and safety assurance and supervision.