Biography


Career

Professor, 07/99 -- present
Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA

ChangJiang Visiting Professor, 09/02 -- present
Center for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University , Beijing, China

Visting Professor, 01/99 -- 12/99
Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY

Associate Professor, 07/95 -- 06/99
Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Assistant Professor, 08/94 -- 06/95
Department of Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY

Long-term Member, 09/93 -- 08/94
School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ

Post-doctoral Fellow, 09/90 -- 08/93
Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA


Education

Ph. D. in Physics, 1990
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
thesis: Statistical mechanics and dynamics of surfaces and membranes

B.S. in Physics, Biology, and Electrical Engineering, 1986
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
physics thesis : The electroweak contribution to the muon's g-2 anomaly
EE thesis: Laser-recrystallization and silicon-on-insulator device structure


Awards

Burroughs-Wellcome's Innovation Award in Functional Genomics, 2000-2003

Guggenheim Fellowship, 1999-2000

Beckman Young Investigator Award, 1997-2000

Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 1995-1998

A. P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, 1994-1999

Overseas Chinese Physics Association's Outstanding Young Researcher Award, 1993

American Physical Society's LeRoy Apker Award, 1986


Professional Activities

Member, Advisory Committee, NORDITA, Stockholm, 2006 -- present

Organizer, CTBP 2006 Summer School on "Quantiative Approaches to Gene Regulatory Systems", La Jolla, CA

Member, International Advisory Committee, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science,  2005 -- present

Editor-in-Chief, Physical Biology, 2004 -- present

Organizer, q-bio preprint archive, 2003 -- present

Member, Steering Committee, Kavali Institute of Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, 2003 -- 2006

Organizer, Program on "Statistical Physics and Biological Information", Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, 2001


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