University of Toronto
Assistant Professor (2021-present), Dept. of Chemistry
cross-appointed in the Dept. of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
Graduate Recruitment & Admissions director (2023-24)
Stanford University
Intelligence Community Postdoctoral fellow (2016-20)
Columbia University
PhD in Chemistry (2011-16)
Lawrence Berkeley National Labs
Post-baccalaureate fellow (2009-11)
UC Berkeley
BS in Chemistry, minor in Chemical Engineering (2005-09)
CSC Emerging Materials Investigator (2024)
CNC-IUPAC Travel Award (2024)
Scialog Fellow in Automating Chemical Laboratories (2023)
C&EN Talented 12 (2022)
ACS Polymers Au Rising Stars in Polymers (2022)
Dorothy Shoichet Women Faculty in Science Award of Excellence (2021)
Connaught New Researcher Award (2021)
Agilent Cary Recognitions for Scientific Innovation (2021)
AIChE Women in Chemical Engineering Travel Award (2020)
Helena Anna Henzl-Gabor Young Women in Science Fund (2020)
Stanford wearable electronics (eWear) travel grant (2019)
AAAS IF/THEN Ambassador (2019-2021)
Polymer Chemistry poster award at the US-Japan Polymers Symposium (2019)
Stanford Bio-X Travel Award (2019)
ACS PMSE Future Faculty Scholar (2019)
Stanford Postdoctoral Initiative Fund, SPIF (2019)
Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellowship (2017-present)
George Pegram Award for meritorious achievement in chemical research (2016)
Columbia University Graduate Student Advisory Council travel grant (2016)
International Center for Materials Research Fellowship at KAIST (2015)
Sustainable Columbia Green Fund via CLEEN (2015)
Columbia University GSAS travel grant (2013, 2015)
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (declined, 2012)
National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship (2012-15)
University of California—Berkeley Scholarship (2007-09)
MIT MPC/CMSE Summer Scholar (2008)
UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dept. Award (2008)
2020 Harvard Business School Online
Leadership Principles
6-week online course for cultivating high-performance teams and developing self-assessments.
2020 MIT Sloan School of Management
Executive Program: Leadership in an Exponentially Changing World.
6-week online course on 4-CAPS+ Leadership Framework and its application in X-teams.
Read in the Harvard Business Review: “In Praise of the Incomplete Leader”
Also read in Forbes: ”Science Reveals the Traits Every Leader Must Cultivate”
2019 Stanford Scientific Teaching Summer Institute
In person course on developing teaching strategies for assessment, constructing modules for active learning, and understanding how inclusion/equity/diversity affect student learning.
Peer reviewer for scientific journals (2014-present)
Advanced Materials, Advanced Science, Applied Electronic Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Applied Polymer Materials, Chemical Science, Chemistry of Materials, European Polymer Journal, Flexible Electronics, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Macromolecules, Matter, Molecular Systems Design & Engineering, Nano Letters, Nature Communications, Omega, Polymer Chemistry, Polymers Au, Science Advances
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation (2020-present)
Chemistry advisor for Chemistry Shorts.
Journal Advisory Boards
RSC Applied Polymers inaugural Advisory Board (2024-present)
Chemical Science Early Career Advisory Board (2023-25)
APL Applied Polymer Materials Advisory Board (2023-2025)
Chemical Reviews Early Career Advisory Board (2023-present)
JACS Au Early Career Advisory Board (2022-present)
ACS Polymers Au inaugural Editorial Advisory Board (2021-24)
Acceleration Consortium Executive Board
Polymer Self-Driving Lab co-lead (2023-present)
Associate Director, Programs (2021-2023)
Stanford Polymer Collective (SPC) (2018-20)
Postdoc Liaison. Coordinate Lunch-and-Learn events, including virtual events.
ACS Poly Division Twitter contributor (2018-19)
Regularly post tweets and likes under @POLY_ACS to engage followers and expand member network.
Moments in Materials, Columbia University (2013-15)
Founder and coordinator for interdisciplinary summer seminar series.
Former research advisors
Postdoc advisor: Zhenan Bao, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
PhD advisor: Luis Campos, Chemistry, Columbia University (1st PhD in the Campos group)
Post-bac advisor: Ron Zuckermann, Biological Nanostructures, Molecular Foundry, LBNL
Undergraduate advisor: Tsu-Jae King Liu, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UC Berkeley
Design
Good design has a powerful impact on our world (check out 99% PI).
I enjoy learning about how simple, functional, yet innovative designs are implemented in architecture, products, and service models. I hope to translate these concepts in my scientific work.
Art
I enjoy graphic design, interactive theater, and projection art (check out am-cb). For instance, all the research images on my website were collected during my time at Berkeley, Columbia, and Stanford. Some have been used in publications and some are simply beautiful mistakes.
Nature
Plants are incredible! I have over 30 species of plants in my home and I particularly like the Fabaceae family. I enjoy hiking, biking, and cross-country skiing (I am an aspiring snow-camper).
