Positions

2015 – Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University

2015 – Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Boston University

2016 – Assistant Professor of Physics, Boston University

2016 – Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Prof., Boston University

Education

2011 – 2015 Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University (Prof. Chad A. Mirkin)

2006 – 2011 PhD, SM in Applied Physics, Harvard University (Prof. Robert M. Westervelt)

2002 – 2006 SB in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Awards & Honors

  • Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Professor 2016
  • MSE Innovation Award, Boston University 2016
  • Finalist in the Collegiate Inventors Competition 2014
  • AVS Nanometer-Scale Science and Technology Division Postdoctoral Award 2014
  • Omar Farha Award for Research Leadership, Department of Chemistry, NU 2013
  • 2nd place overall, Northwestern University Scientific Image Contest 2013
  • 3rd place Poster Award, Seeing at the Nanoscale 2013
  • International Institute for Nanotechnology Outstanding Researcher Award 2012
  • International Institute for Nanotechnology Postdoctoral Fellow 2011
  • Certificate of Distinction for Teaching, Harvard University 2008
  • National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow 2007

Professional Experience

  • Peer Reviewer, Ultramicroscopy, Advanced Materials Interfaces, Scientific Reports, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, The Journal of the American Chemical Society, Applied Physics Letters, The Journal of Applied Physics, Optics Express, and The Journal of Materials Chemistry
  • Executive Committee, Nanoscale Science and Technology Division of the American Vacuum Society 2016
  • Panelist, NDSEG evaluation panel 2013-2015
  • Member, American Vacuum Society 2013
  • Member, Materials Research Society 2010
  • Member, American Physical Society 2007
  • Panelist, National Science Foundation 2015

Teaching

  • ME 500 - Nanomanufacturing and Hierarchical Materials (Spring 2018)
  • ME 303 - Fluid Mechanics (Fall 2017)
  • ME 306 - Introduction to Materials Science (Spring 2017)
  • ME 303 - Fluid Mechanics (Fall 2016)
  • ME 303 - Fluid Mechanics (Fall 2015)

Seminars and Invited Presentations

  • Natick Soldier RD&E Center, Army Research Lab, Natick, MA May 2017
  • The Science of Stuff: Research on Tap, Boston University, Boston MA Feb. 2017
  • Bioenabled Materials Synthesis & Assembly ASPSM, ARL, Aberdeen, MD Dec. 2016
  • Nanomanufacturing Center Seminar, U. Mass Lowell, Lowell MA Sept. 2016
  • Translational Research in Biomaterials, Boston University, Boston, MA April 2016
  • Photonics Forum, Boston University, Boston, MA March 2016
  • AVS International Symposium 62, San Jose, CA Oct 2015
  • Physical Chemistry Seminar, Boston University, Boston, MA Sept. 2015
  • Materials & Manufacturing Directorate, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH Aug. 2015
  • Electro-Optics and Photonics Division Seminar, Army Research Lab, Adelphi, MD Aug. 2015
  • Weapons and Materials Directorate, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen, MD Aug. 2015
  • IIN Frontiers in Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL March 2015
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA Feb. 2015
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX Feb. 2015
  • Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Penn State, State College, PA Jan. 2015
  • Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA Dec. 2014
  • Natural Materials and Systems Program Review (for Prof. Mirkin) Dec. 2014
  • BIP, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Nov. 2014
  • Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, NYU, New York, NY Oct. 2014
  • Advanced Science Research Center, CUNY, New York, NY Oct. 2014
  • AVS Prairie Chapter Symposium, Loyola University, Chicago, IL Sep. 2014
  • School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Feb. 2014
  • Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC, Urbana-Champaign, IL Jan. 2014
  • Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA Jan. 2014
  • Nano Bio Info Tech (NBIT) Program Review, Seoul, Korea (for Prof. Mirkin) July 2013
  • The 57th EIPBN (Three Beams), Nashville, TN May 2013
  • US-KOREA Joint Symposium of Nanotechnology, Dallas, TX (for Prof. Mirkin) May 2012
  • CNM Seminar, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL April 2011
  • Solid State & Optics Seminar, Yale University, New Haven, CT Feb. 2011
  • Nanomechanics AFM Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Oct. 2010
  • Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center Research Exchange, Cambridge, MA April 2010

Issued Patents (12 patent applications filed)

  • X. Liao, W. Shim, C. A. Mirkin, S. He, K. A. Brown, G. Liu, A. L. Schmucker, D. J Eichelsdoerfer, B. Rasin, “Heat Actuated and Projected Lithography Systems and Methods” U. S. Patent 9,766,551, September 19 (2017).
  • T. P. Hunt, R. M. Westervelt, A. Bleszyinski, J. Aguilar, K. A. Brown, “Dielectrophoretic tweezers apparatus and methods” U. S. Patent 8021532 B2, September 20 (2011).