Education

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• B.S., Physics, 1980, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
• M.S., Physics, 1983, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• Ph.D., Physics, 1986, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Experience

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• Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of California, Berkeley (1980 – 1981)
• Graduate Research Assistant, University of California, Berkeley (1981 – 1986)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Exxon Research and Engineering Company (1986 – 1988)
• Assistant Professor, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology (1989 – 1993)
• Associate Professor, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology (1993 – 1998)
• Professor, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology (1998 – 2015)
• ADVANCE Professor of Science, Georgia Institute of Technology (2002 – 2006)
• Chair, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology (2005 – 2010)
• Director, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2011 - 2016)
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics, National Taiwan University (2011 - present)
• Vice President, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2016 - present)

Research Interests

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• Computational materials physics
• Theoretical condensed matter physics
• Electronic and structural properties of solids, surfaces, interfaces, and clusters