Awards and Honors

• Most Influential University Professor, SDSU (Spring 2024).
• MonArk NSF Quantum Foundry: 2D Photonics Program (2023).
• AFRL ML-RCP Program (2023).
• Co-organizer, Symposium on 2D Heterostructures - MRS Fall 2023. 
• NSF I-Corps Award (Fall 2022).
• NSF ExpandQISE Track 2 Grant: Moiré Matter Quantum Photonics Research and Education (2022).
• DoD Grant for Quantum Materials Research Laboratory (2022).
• AFOSR Grant on Photophysics of 2D Semiconductors (2022). 
• ASGC NASA Collaborative Research Program Award 2021.
• MRFN Faculty Fellow 2021@PSU.
• AEOP Faculty Mentor - Research and Engineering Apprenticeship Program in Summer 2021 & 2022.
• Guest Editor, Special Issue on '2D Materials and Heterostructures', Emergent Materials (2021).
• ​​DST Young Scientist Travel Award, PhD Summer School, DTU (2014).
• ​Canada Commonwealth Graduate Scholarship at USask (2011-12).
• ​​Best Science Grad Award (2006).

Key Journal Publications

• Hexagonal Boron Nitride Quantum Simulator: Prelude to Spin and Photonic Qubits, ACS Nano (2024).
• Probing Anharmonic Phonons in WS2 van der Waals Crystal by Raman Spectroscopy & Machine Learning, iScience (2023).
• Moiré Physics in Twisted van der Waals Heterostructures of 2D Materials, Emergent Materials  (2021).
• Biomolecular Photosensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells,  RSER (2020).     
• ​Graphene-Semiconductor Heterojunction Sheds Light on Emerging Photovoltaics, Nature Photonics (2019).
• Chemical Interaction-Guided, Metal-Free Growth of h-BN on Silicon-Based Dielectrics, ACS Nano (2017).
• ​​Large-Area, Transfer-Free, Oxide-Assisted Synthesis of h-BN Films and Heterostructures with MoS2 & WS2, JACS (2015).
• Interfacial Non-Degenerate Doping of 2D Semiconductor, ACS Nano (2015).​

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