Bio: PH.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994 B.S. 1987 and M.S. 1990, Peking University 2003 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research 2002 National Science Foundation CAREER Award 2002 3M New Faculty Award 2001 Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Award 2001 DuPont Young Professor Award 1997 Accomplishment Award, DuPont CR&D 1992 Dobbins Fellowship, UNC-Chapel Hill

Research: The research program focuses upon exploring new concepts and strategies at the interfaces with catalysis and biology for the design of well-defined polymeric materials. By applying these new concepts and strategies, we aim to design and discover novel polymeric materials for many functional applications.