•   Microscale damage mechanism of metals in hydrogen environment.
•   Electromigration in copper and aluminum interconnects.
•   Electrochemistry of batteries.
•   Superhydrophobicity

•   Sep. 2010－ Mar. 2016    Ph.D Candidate. Major: Materials Science
Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
•   Aug. 2011-Aug. 2012:
Visiting student at Departments of Material Science and Engineering and Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
•   Sep. 2006－Jul. 2010:
B.E. (July 2010). Major: Materials Science & Engineering, Accumulative overall grade point average (GPA) was 3.7/4.0 (87/100). Rank at 10/100.
Bachelor thesis: “Fabricating superhydrophobic surfaces on metals” (2010)
Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

•   Certificate of short course, ‘Transmission electronmicroscopy of materials’, Microscopy & Microanalysis 2012 meeting, Phoenix, AZ. (Jul 2012)
•   Rated as ‘excellent’ in leading a project named “Fabrication of low-adhesion, high-speed biomimic water strider based on superhydrophobic materials” (2009-2010), National Innovation Experiment Program for University Students.
•   The National Scholarship(3/120) ,2007-2008

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