My hometown, Nantong, is beautiful city  located on the north bank of the Changjiang River estuary on the Pacific coast, about 100 miles away from Shanghai.    Everybody there is good at swimming, except me.  When I was 18 years old, I left home to Shanghai for undergraduate study and lived in Shanghai for the next 7 years.  I graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University in June 1999 with a BS degree.  I did a not bad job in college, but my biggest achievement was to find out who would be my future wife.  I worked three years making printed circuit boards (PCB).   

I joined the Borguet group in May 2004.  My research is focused on nanoscale dynamics at solid-liquid interfaces.  My present project is to study the movement of molecules on gold surface in solution by STM.  Ultimately I want to learn what factors determine how single molecules move on surfaces.