Education

1998-2003 Ph. D. in Medicinal Chemistry/Organic Chemistry, University of Michigan (Professor Masato Koreeda)

1996-1998 M. S. in Organic Chemistry, University of Alabama (Professor Michael P. Cava)

1993-1996 M. S. in Organic/Organometallic Chemistry, Nankai University, PRC (Professor Zhengzhi Zhang)

1989-1993 B. S. in Organic Chemistry, Nanchang University, PRC

Professional Experience

2013- Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC Santa Barbara (UCSB)

2011-2013 Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC Santa Barbara (UCSB)

2009-2011 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC Santa Barbara (UCSB)

2005-2009 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada, Reno (UNR)

2003-2005 Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor Sergey A. Kozmin, University of Chicago