Email: zheng@austin.utexas.edu; Google Scholar

2024 -  Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science and Engineering, Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professorship, UT Austin

2022 - Graduate Advisor and Graduate Studies Committee Chair, Materials Science and Engineering Program, Texas Materials Institute, UT Austin

2019 - 2024 Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science and Engineering, Temple Foundation Endowed Fellowship, UT Austin

2013 - 2019 Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science and Engineering, J. Mike Walker Faculty Scholarship, UT Austin

                                               2010 - 2013 Postdoctoral Researcher in Chemistry and Biochemistry (advisor: Prof. Paul S. Weiss), University of California, Los Angeles

                                               2006 - 2010 Ph.D. in Engineering Science and Mechanics (advisor: Prof. Tony Jun Huang), The Pennsylvania State University

                                               (2010 Alumni Association Dissertation Award; 2014 Graduate School Alumni Society Early Career Award)

      2004 - 2006 Research Fellow, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR, Singapore

      2001 - 2003 M.Sc. in Physics (advisors: Prof. Alfred Huan and Prof. Soo-Jin Chua), National University of Singapore, Singapore

      1997 - 2001 B.Sc. in Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China