Academic Appointments
07/2025 - present, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo
07/2025 - present, Core Member, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo
Education and Training
2021-2025, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, USA
2016-2020, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
2014-2016, M.A.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
2013, Undergraduate exchange student, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
2010-2014, B.Eng., Engineering Mechanics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Recent Invited Talks
07/2025, “Dendrite initiation and deflection in biaxially compressed solid electrolytes”, Workshop on NanoTech-Enabled Green and Sustainable Energy Technologies (N-TegSet), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
02/2025, “Poking, bending, and squeezing of garnet solid electrolytes for fast-charging solid-state batteries”, Nanomaterials for Applications in Energy Technology, Gordon Research Seminar, Ventura, CA, USA
02/2024, “Mechanics for Energy Sustainability: from fatigue of 2D materials to dendrites in solid-state batteries”, Department of Materials Science and Engineering Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
02/2023, “Mechanics for Energy Sustainability: From Fatigue of 2D Materials to Dendrites in Solid-state Batteries”, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
12/2022, “Multi-scale and multi-field mechanics of 2D materials and solid-state batteries”, Department of Materials Science and Engineering Seminar, Peking University, Beijing, China