Professional Experience:
03/07-present Chairman NATO SET THz Technology Task Group
05/05-07/06 Chairman NATO SET THz Technology Exploratory Team
07/02-present Director Center for Terahertz Research, RPI
09/01-present Chair Professor Endowed J. Erik Jonsson ’22 Distinguished Professor of Science
03/98-present Professor Department of Electrical, Computer & System Engineering, RPI
05/97-present Professor Department of Physics, RPI
01/92-05/97 Associate Professor Department of Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
08/87-12/91 Research Scientist Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
05/85-07/87 Research Physicist Amoco Research Center
05/84-04/85 Guest Scientist Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Education:
Ph.D., (Physics) Brown University, RI. 1986
M.Sc., (Physics) Brown University, RI. 1983
B.S., (Physics) Peking University, Beijing, China 1982

Honors and Awards:
Rensselaer’s William H. Wiley Award ‘09; the Trustee Celebration of Faculty Achievement Awards ’08, ‘07, ‘06, ’04, ‘03, ‘02, ‘01; Lifetime Fellow of American Physics Society; Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Fellow of Optical Society of America; First Heinrich Hertz Lecturer (Germany); International Commission for Optics Traveling Lecturer ‘03; Fellow Lecturer of Optical Society of America ‘02; K.C. Wong Fellow ’02; Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE/LEOS ‘98-99 & 99-00; Rensselaer’s Early Career Award, ‘96; Cottrell Scholar Award, Research Corporation ‘95; K.C. Wong Prize, K.C. Wong Foundation /Hong Kong, ‘95; CAREER Award (previous NSF-NYI), National Science Foundation ‘95; AFOSR-SRPF Fellow, Hanscom Air Force Base ‘93-94; Research Initiation Award, National Science Foundation, 92.

Professional Activities:
Topical Editor for JOSA B ‘05-11, Associate Editor-in-Chief for Chinese Optics Letters, Chinese Academy of Science Assessor, ‘00-10; Member, CLEO ‘03, CLEO ‘02,CLEO ‘99, ‘00 Program Subcommittee on Ultrafast Optics and Electronics; Chair of Physics Panel, ’99, National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow Program; Board of Editorial Committee, ’99, Laser Society of Japan; Co-Chair, ’99, Conference on THz Spectroscopy and Application, SPIE; Chair, ’97, Ultrafast Optics & Electronics, LEOS Annual Meeting; Guest Editor, ’96, JSTQE on Ultrafast Electronics, Photonics and Optoelectronics; Chair, ’95-’98, Committee on Ultrafast Optics & Electronics, IEEE/LEOS; Member of the Board of Governors, ’95,  IEEE/LEOS; Member of Physics Panel, ’93-present, National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow Program; Co-Chair, ’93, Conference on Ultrafast Laser and Technology, SPIE; Member, ’93, Committee on IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical Meeting; Guest editor, ’93-present, for WuLi (Chinese Physics Journal); Member, ’92-’95, Committee on Ultrafast Optics & Electronics, IEEE/LEOS

Seminars, Colloquium, Publications, Patents:
Featured in over 50 magazines, 22 US patents issued, 20 books and book chapters, 250 refereed journal papers, delivered 400 colloquium, seminars, invited conference presentations, and 200 contributed conference talks.