○ Education

Ph.D. Applied Physics, Stanford University (1988).

○ Positions/Honors/Awards

9/04 – current Jane and Roland Blumberg Professor of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin

9/01 – current Professor of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin

9/96 – 8/01 Associate Professor of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin.

9/92 - 8/94 Trull Centennial Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin.

1/90 - 8/96 Assistant Professor of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin.

5/88 - 12/89 Postdoctoral Research, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY.

6/82 - 4/88 Research Assistant, Stanford Electronics Lab, Stanford University.

Fellow, American Physical Society (2007)

○ Technical specialties:

Mesoscopic Physics, Solid State Physics, Surface Physics

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy

Nanoscale Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy

○ Professional Organizations

Member, The American Physical Society

Member, The American Vacuum Society

Member, Materials Research Society

○ Current research interests:

• Structural, electronic and optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures

• Quantum information processing and coherence/decoherence in semiconductor quantum dots

• Quantum engineering of metallic nanostructures

• Collective and quasiparticle properties in nanostructues

• Nanomechanical properties of soft condensed matter systems

○ Publications

○ PhDs awarded:

S. Gwo, (Ph. D. 1993): Now Full Professor, Physics Department, National Tsing-Hwa University, Taiwan. Recipients of 1993 AVS graduate student prize; Recipient of the nation’s most outstanding young scientist in 2001, Taiwan
A.R. Smith (Ph. D. 1995): Now Full Professor, Director of Quantum Institute, Physics Department, Ohio University. Recipient of Presidential Early Career Award (PECAS).
K.-J. Chao, (Ph. D. 1997): Now technical staff, Evans and Associates, Sunnyvale, CA, Recipients of 1997 AVS graduate student prize.
Rachel Mahaffy, (Ph.D. 2000): NA
Hongbin Yu (Ph.D. 2001): Now Assistant Professor at Arizona State University, Recipient of 2001 AVS graduate student prize.
Ning Liu (Ph.D. 2001): Now Staff Member, Freescale, Recipient of the 2001 UT Ben Streetman Prize for outstanding research in Microlectronics.
Han Htoon (Ph.D. 2001): Now Permanent Staff Member at Los Alamos National Lab., Recipient of the 1999 MRS best poster presentation award.
Soyeun Park (Ph. D. 2003): Now Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University.
Hoki Lyeo (Ph.D. 2004): Now research staff member at KIST, Korea
Jeff Weimeri (Ph.D. 2005): Now at Air Force Base in San Diego
D. Kulik (Ph.D. 2005): Now technical staff at Cypress semiconductors.
Daejin Eom (Ph.D. 2005): Now postdoc at Columbia University.
Ni Kulkarni: (Ph.D. 2005): Now staff member at INTEL.
Andreas Muller (Ph.D. 2007), Now Assistant Professor at Univ of South Florida
Pablo Bianucci (Ph.D. 2007), Now Postdoc at McGill University, Canada
Joonho Bae (Ph.D. 2007), Now Postdoc at Georgia Institute of Technology
Chris Wieland (Ph.D. 2008), Now Staff member at INTEL
Edward B. Flagg (Ph.D. 2008), Now Postdoc at NIST, Gaithersburg
Alex Khajetoorian, (Ph.D. 2008), Now Postdoc at University of Hamburg, Germany
Shengyong Qin (Ph.D. 2009), Now Postdoc at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jungdae Kim (Ph.D. 2010), Now Postdoc at UT-Austin

○ Postdocs Mentored:

F.-K. Men, (finished 1995): Now Professor at National Chun-Zhen University, Jia-Yi , Taiwan
X.-D. Wang (finished 1999): Now Technical Staff at Motorola, Phoenix, AZ.
C.-S. Jiang (finished 2001): Now Technical Staff at National Renewable Energy Lab., Golden, CO.
Q.Q. Wang (finished 2003): Now full Professor at Wu-Han University, China
J. Li,  (finished 2005): Now professor at Peking University, China
X.-Y. Wang: (finished Oct 2006) now at Rochester University as a research associate.
Murat Ozer (finished Aug. 2007), now at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.