Program: Chemical Engineering, Ph.D.
Research Interests: Soft Matter, Interfacial Phenomena, Nanomaterials
Self Assembly, Colloids and Complex Fluids
Admission: Rice University (12/18)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1/1)
University of Michigan (1/9)
University of Delaware (1/11)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1/15)
University of California at Santa Barbara (1/28)
Cornell University (2/19)
Rejection: UC Berkeley (2/17)
UPenn (3/15)
Withdrawal: UW-Madison, Minnesota, UWashington-Seattle, Princeton,
GaTech, Purdue
Decision: MIT
Background
Education: B.S. in Physics w/ minor in Chemical Engineering, NTU 2011-2016
GPA: 4.24/4.3
Standardized Tests:
TOEFL: R29/L30/S24/W28 Total:111
GRE: V164(94%)/Q168(95%)/AWA3.5(38%)
Publication:
Journal Article: two papers on J of Taiwan Inst of Chem Eng (first author)
Conference Talk: one at Complex Systems Symposium 2014
Posters: two posters at 2014 & 2015 PSROC Annual Meeting
Research Experiences:
1. NTU, Department of Chemical Engineering, Aug. 2015 - Jan. 2016
2. NTUST, Department of Chemical Engineering, Feb. 2015 - Jan. 2016
3. NTU, Institute of Applied Mechanics, Aug. 2013 - Jan. 2015
Recommendation Letters:
Two from project advisors (NTU ChemE & NTU IAM)
One from professor in experiment classes (NTU Phys)
One from professor in class with MD simulation final project (AS IoP)
Awards:
Three-time Presidential Award recipient
Dean's Award recipient