B.S., Physics 1988 University of Science and Technology of China
M.S., Physics 1990 Columbia University
Ph.D., Physics 1996 Columbia University
Research Interests
High energy nuclear physics: http://www.physics.purdue.edu/henp/
STAR at BNL/RHIC: http://www.star.bnl.gov/
Teaching
PHYS152, PHYS172, PHYS272H, PHYS410, PHYS344, PHYS342L, PHYS556
Graduate Students
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Alex Cardenas (Ph.D. August 2002)
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Tim Herston (M.S. August 2003)
- Levente Molnar (Ph.D. July 2006)
- Jason Ulery (Ph.D. December 2007)
- Aoqi Feng (Ph.D. May 2008, IOPP, Wuhan, China)
- Quan Wang
- Joshua Konzer
- Li Yi
Awards and Honors
- Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (2010)
- University Faculty Scholar (2008-2013)
- Outstanding Junior Investigator Award (2002-2007)
Division of Nuclear Physics, U.S. Department of Energy
- Feynman Scholarship (1994)
California Institute of Technology
Professional Experience
- 2009-present, Professor, Department of Physics, Purdue University
- 2005-2009, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Purdue University
- 2000-2005, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Purdue University
- 1996-2000, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Professional and Scholarly Activities
- American Physical Society
- Division of Nuclear Physics
- E802/859/866 Collaboration, Alternate Gradient Synclotron, BNL (1990-1996)
- PHENIX Collaboration, Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, BNL (1991-1996)
- NA49 Collaboration, Super Proton Synclotron, CERN (1996-2000)
- STAR Collaboration, Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, BNL (1996-present)
Selected Publications
See personal page for link to the most current list of publications.