Degrees:

• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley
• M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley
• B.S. Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University

Professional Background:

• Professor, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, SUNY-Albany, 2008-present
• Consulting Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2007-present
• Nanoelectronics Task Leader, Center for Nanotechnology, University of California/NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA, 2003-2008
• Strategic Technology Research,  Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, 1997-2003
• University of California at Berkeley, Solid-State Device Research Group, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, 1993-1997
• Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, 1988-1993 

Areas of Research:  

• Emerging nanoelectronic devices for computing (non-conventional concepts)
• Low-dimensional electronics (graphene, semiconductor nanowires)
• Novel non-volatile memory devices
• Nano-based on-chip interconnect technology
• Energy harvesting devices 

Awards, Honors & Professional Services:   

• Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE
• Editor, IEEE Electron Device Letters, 2001-2007
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, 2007-present
• Guest Editor, IEEE T-ED/T-NANO Joint Special Issue on Nanowire Electronics, 2008
• Principal Editor, Proceedings of Materials Research Society Symposium, 2003
• Draft Committee, International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS)
• National Nanotechnology Initiative/SRC Consultative Working Group on Novel Devices and System Architectures
• Administrative Committee, IEEE Nanotechnology Council
• Fellows Committee, IEEE Nanotechnology Council
• Nanoelectronics Committee, IEEE Nanotechnology Council
• Ex-Officio AdCom member, IEEE Electron Device Society
• Advisory Committee, Technical Program Committee, and Invited Guest Panel for numerous international conferences and workshops
• Recipient, IBM Faculty Award
• Primary Industrial Mentor & Sponsor, SRC customized research Programs on nanoelectronics at Stanford University and University of California at Berkeley
• Guest Professor, Dept. of Microelectronics, Beijing University, China
• Guest Lecturer, Stanford University and University of California at Berkeley

Selected Accomplishments:

• Author, 5 book/contributed book chapters
• More than 100 published research papers
• Speaker, 50+ invited talks to international conferences, academia, industry, and professional societies around the world
• World's first 10-nm physical gate-length double-gate silicon transistor ("FinFET")
• World's first Tera-Hz silicon logic transistor 
• World's first 15-nm gate length silicon transistor
• Among the first demonstrate self-assembled 1-D nanowire-based phase-change memories
• "World Smallest Transistor: Ground-breaking research in new architecture", Industry Press Release (2002)
• "Double-gate transistor for 10-nm design", reported by Forbes, EE Times, PC World, Electronic News, and verity of international public media (2002)
• "Technology to enable ten-fold performance leap in future transistor", Industry Press Release (2001)
• "World's fastest CMOS transistors", Industry Press Release (2001)
• "The fastest silicon transistor - 15nm gate length planar CMOS FET", reported by EE Times, PC World, Electronic News, and other public media (2001) 

Inventions:

• Inventor, 295 awarded U.S. patents in nanotechnology and semiconductor nanoelectronics
• Inventor, several dozen awarded European/Japanese patents

Recent Invited Talks:

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, October 2009.

Chinese Adademy of Sciences, Beijing, China, October 2009.

ICSI'2009, Hangzhou, China, October 2009.

IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, San Diego, CA, April 2008.

Special seminar, SanDisk Corporation, San Jose, CA, March 2008.

IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecture, IEEE Electron Device Society Santa Clara Valley Chapter, Santa Clara, CA, January 2008.

IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecture, Beijing University, Beijing, China, December 2007.

IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecture, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, December 2007.

Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November 2006.

PIRA Nanoelectronics Conference, San Jose, CA, November 2006.

International Conference on Solid-State Devices and Materials, Kanagawa, Japan, September 2006.

Special Seminar, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Santa Clara, CA, February 2006.

Paul Allen Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, January 2006.

San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, October 2005.

European Solid-State Device Research Conference, Grenoble, France, September 2005.

Spring Workshop, American Vacuum Society, Sunnyvale, CA, May 2005.

University of California, Berkeley, CA, February 2005.

Special Seminar, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, February 2005.

University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, December 2004.

Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, November 2004.

International Workshop on Science and Technology of Semiconducting Nanowires, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland, November 2004.

National Nanotechnology Initiative/NIST Workshop on Nanotechnology, Gaithersburg, MD, January 2004.

Nanoelectronics & Nanophotonics Conference, Palo Alto, CA, September 2003.

University of California, Berkeley, CA, October 2002.

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), Topical Research Conference, Austin, TX, October 2002.

IEEE Silicon Nanoelectronics Workshop, Honolulu, HI, June 2002.

Beijing University, Beijing, China, April 2002.

International Nanotechnology/Nanoelectronics Symposium, Beijing, China, October 2001.

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan, June 2001.

NEC Research Lab, Sagamihara, Japan, June 2001.

Conference Highlight Talk, Symposium on VLSI Technology, Kyoto, Japan, June 2001.

Special Seminar, SEMATECH, Austin, TX, May 2001.