Brief Bio
I’m a Senior Research Associate in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University in Professor Ankit Disa’s Lab. I work on time-resolved synchrotron X-ray experiments and the insights they offer into materials sciences. I currently study electrically driven phase transitions using time-resolved X-ray scattering, and the reaction dynamics of electro-catalysts using time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy. I also design and build time-resolved X-ray detectors for synchrotron science.
Previously, I was a Research Associate at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) at Cornell University and a postdoctoral researcher in the Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering Group at the Advanced Light Source (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), advised by Dr. Jinghua Guo. Before that, I was a postdoc for Dr. Xiaoyi Zhang at the Advanced Photon Source (Argonne National Lab). I earned my Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University in 2018.
You can find my full CV here.
Recent News
- 2026: I have been invited to give a talk at the International Workshop on Photoionization Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (IWP&RIXS) on Synchronized In‑Situ X‑ray Scattering (SISXS).
- 2026: I was awarded an NSF ACCESS Explore Allocation to support my computational work.
- 2026: Our paper Time-Resolved X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Diffraction toward Solar Energy Conversion (with Cunming Liu and Xiaoyi Zhang) was accepted in Photon Science.