Courses Taught
CHE 2172: Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
CHE 3900: Independent Research I
Research Interests
- Advanced materials – adaptive/responsive materials
- Polymer (mechano) chemistry
- Soft matter mechanics
Research Projects
- Mechanically adaptive systems
- Toughening Elastomeric materials through molecular energy dissipation
- Mechano-responsive material systems leveraging high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)
Awards & Honors
- 2024 Materials Chemistry Horizon Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry: Stephanie
L Kwolek Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry (2024): worked as one of the NSF
Center for the Chemistry of Molecularly Optimized Networks (MONET) team members
- 2023 Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) Future Faculty Honoree by
the American Chemical Society at ACS Fall 2023 Meeting (2023)
- 3rd Place Poster Award for the research at the Triangle Soft Matter Workshop (2023)
- The 2017 Journal of Polymer Science poster prize (3rd place in APS DPOLY poster competition)
by the American Physical Society at APS March Meeting (2017)
- Exempted from returning the finance loan from the Japan Student Services Organization
for excellent achievements and high grades (2012)
- Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research by the American Chemical Society at 241st
ACS National Meeting & Exposition (2011)
- Keio Graduate Scholarship by Keio University for 2 consecutive years (2010-2012)
- Hatakeyama Prize for the 2nd highest grades in mechanical engineering, Keio University,
by the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1 of 2 (out of 166 candidates) (2010)
