in studying microscale step-motors, chemical sensing, control of energy transfer in quantum dots using Förster resonance energy transfer, and three dimensional nanoporous materials. Awards and honors 2017, Robert & Jane Mitchell Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Engineering 2014, Ranked third of ten "discoveries that will shape the future", BBC Focus magazine, British Broadcasting Corporation, for her work on bottom-up assembly of inorganic nanomotors 2012, National Science Foundation CAREER Awards, National Science Foundation one of 24 finalists for the Beckman Young Investigators Award References Living people Nanjing University alumni Johns Hopkins University alumni University of Texas at Austin faculty Year of birth missing (living people)