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, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), algorithm-driven deployable structural design, and electronics to engineer mechanically adaptive devices and systems. These innovations are applied in various near-field domains, including magnetic resonance imaging, wearable electronics, and wireless powering, sensing, and reading.

I have authored around 20 peer-reviewed articles published in renowned journals such as Science Advances, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Advanced Science, Microsystem & Nanoengineering, among others. My work has been featured in various popular media outlets, such as Science Daily, Medical Republic, Healthcare-in-Europe, Medhealth Outlook, Physics World, Phys.org.

Research Interests

• Metamaterials
• Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
• Wearable & Conformable MRI coils
• Wireless powering, sensing, and reading

Recent News

• 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.