• Sep 10, 2025: Invited as reviewer for npj 2D Materials and Applications
• May 13, 2025: The work was featured in A*STAR FY24 Annual Report.
• Apr 17, 2025: The work was highlighted in A*STAR research under the title "Zooming lenses with a spark".
• Nov 30, 2024: Invited talk at The 2nd Symposium on Emerging Functional Materials and Devices, Nanjing
• May 19, 2024: Happy to be a session chair at IUMRS-ICEM 2024, Hong Kong.
• May 15, 2024: New paper entitled 'Linear electro-optic effect in 2D ferroelectric for electrically tunable metalens' was published in Advanced Materials.
• May 01, 2024: Jointly at NSTIC (National Semiconductor Translation and Innovation Centre), an exciting translational initiative.
• Apr 01, 2024: New funding for my 5th project as principal investigator. Allow me to conduct research in a new direction.
• Feb 22, 2024: Invited as reviewer for Nature Comm.
• Jul 03, 2023: Senior Scientist I, IMRE, A*STAR.
• Mar 29, 2023: Invited to serve as the Guest Editor for a Special Issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). Welcome submissions.
• Aug 22, 2022: Received new funding for my 4th project as principal investigator. This will allow me to continue my research and make further progress towards my goals.
• Oct 26, 2021: New paper entitled 'Interlayer Exciton in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Semiconductors for 2D Optoelectronics' was published in Advanced Materials.
• Nov 09, 2020: As Scientist II, I joined IMRE, A*STAR, Singapore. IMRE (Institute of Materials Research and Engineering) ; A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research) .
• Oct 07, 2020: New paper entitled 'Electrically controllable router of interlayer excitons' was published in Science Advances.
• April 26, 2019: New paper entitled 'Room temperature nanocavity laser with interlayer excitons in 2D heterostructures ' was published in Science Advances.
• 13 Oct, 2015: Following my move from China to Singapore, I joined NUS (National University of Singapore) as a Research Fellow.
• 08 Oct, 2015: New paper entitled 'Planar carbon nanotube–graphene hybrid films for high-performance broadband photodetectors' was published in Nature communications.