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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • 2009 – Present: Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas.
  • 2009 – Present: Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas.
  • 2005 – 2009: Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University,Houston, Texas.
  • 2000 – 2005: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University,Houston, Texas.
  • 1997 – 2000: Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory Fellow, Stanford Free Electron Laser CenterW. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
  • 1995 – 1997: Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Terahertz Science and Technology, University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara, California / Researcher, Japan Science and Technology. Advisors: Professors S. James Allen and Hiroyuki Sakaki

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Physics, State University of New York at Buffalo,Buffalo, NY, August 1995
Thesis Advisor: Professor Bruce D. McCombe
Thesis: “Far-Infrared Magneto-Optical Study of Two-Dimensional Electrons and Holes in InAs/AlGaSb Quantum Wells”

M.S., Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan, March 1992
Thesis Advisor: Professor Noboru Miura
Thesis: “Ultra-High Field Cyclotron Resonance in Low Mobility Semiconductors”

B.S., Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan, March, 1990

MEMBERSHIPS

  • Member of the American Physical Society, 1992 – Present
  • Member of SPIE, 1997 – Present
  • Member of the Optical Society of America, 2000 – Present
  • Member of IEEE, 2002 – Present
  • Member of the Materials Research Society, 2004 –Present