I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Photonics Center at Boston University, where I earned my Ph.D. degree in 2023. Prior to this, I obtained my Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from Tsinghua University in 2016 and Chongqing University in 2013, respectively.

My research focuses on developing metamaterials to manipulate and edit electric and magnetic fields in both temporal and spatial dimensions. I explore methodologies that integrate metamaterials, electronics, sensors, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), algorithm-driven reconfigurable structures to engineer human-centered, mechanically-adaptive functional devices and systems that interact seamlessly with the human body, advancing healthcare technologies including clinical MRI, wireless powering, and wearable sensing.

I have served as the first and co-first author on publications in prestigious journals, including Science Advances, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Advanced Science, Microsystem & Nanoengineering. My research has received widespread recognition, with coverage in over 100 media outlets such as Science Daily, Medical Republic, Healthcare-in-Europe, Medhealth Outlook, Physics World, and Phys.org.

Research Interests

• Metamaterials
• Wearable & Conformable MRI coils
• Wireless powering & wearable sensing
• Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)

Recent News

• April 2025: My first author paper “Electrically-shielded coil-enabled battery-free wireless sensing for underwater environmental monitoring” was published at Advanced Science, and featured as cover image.

• December 2024: My first author paper “Conformal Metamaterials with Active Tunability and Self-adaptivity for Magnetic Resonance Imaging” was published at the Science partner journal SPJ Research.

• November 2024: My co-first author paper “Metamaterial-enabled Hybrid Receive Coil for Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Capabilities” was published at Advanced Science.

• July 2024: We have been selected as an honoree for the 2024 Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards.

• July 2024: My co-first author paper “A robust near-field body area network based on coaxially-shielded textile metamaterial” was published at Nature Communications.

• June 2024: My first author paper “Wireless, customizable coaxially shielded coils for magnetic resonance imaging” was published at Science Advances.

• April 2024: My first author paper “Computational-Design Enabled Wearable and Tunable Metamaterials via Freeform Auxetics for Magnetic Resonance Imaging” was published at Advanced Science, and featured as cover image.

• April 2024: My co-first author paper “Wearable Coaxially-Shielded Metamaterial for Magnetic Resonance Imaging” was published at Advanced Materials, and featured as cover image.

• Oct. 2023: My co-first author paper “Helmholtz Coil-Inspired Volumetric Wireless Resonator for Magnetic Resonance Imaging” was published at Advanced Materials Technologies.

• May 2023: I won 2023 PhD Societal Impact Dissertation Award at Boston University.

• May 2023: Our work won 2023 STAT Madness All-Star Award.

• Jan. 2022: My first author paper “Metamaterial-enhanced, near-field readout platform for passive microsensor tags” was published at Microsystems & Nanoengineering – Nature.

• Dec. 2021: My first author paper “Auxetics-Inspired Tunable Metamaterials for Magnetic Resonance Imaging” was published at Advanced Materials, and featured as cover image.