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"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind ... "
      Bertrand Russel, Autobiography, 1967.

 

Yongqiang (Alex) Xue, Ph.D.


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    College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
    State University of New York, Albany, New York 12303
    Office: CESTM B131  Tel: (518) 956-7220  Fax: (518) 437-8687
    E-mail: yxue@uamail.albany.edu

 

Education
    B.S.     Mathematics, Peking University, July 1991 (Member, Special Class of Gifted Youth)
    M.S.    Physics, University of Massachusetts,  May 1996
    Ph.D.   Solid State Devices & Materials, Purdue University, Dec. 2000
               
Professional Experience
    Lecturer in Mathematics (July 1991 - July 1994):
            Shandong Finance Institute, Jinan, P.R. China,
    Postdoctoral Fellow  (Sept. 2000 - Aug. 2004):
            Department of Chemistry & Materials Research Center, Northwestern University
    Assistant Professor (Sept. 2004 - Present ):
            College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University at Albany - SUNY,

           
Professional Societies

    Member:

ACS, APS, MRS, OSA

 

Professional Services

    Panelist:
            NSF ECS, NSF GRFP

    Proposal Review:

            NSF ASC, NSF PCHEM, Israel Science Foundation, National Research Coucil of Italy
            City University of Hong Kong, Universitet Hasselt (Belgium)

    Regular Technical Reviewer:
            Phys. Rev. Lett., Phys. Rev. B, 
J. Chem. Phys., Euro. Phys. Lett., Phys. Lett. B.

            J. Am. Chem. Soc.,  J. Phys. Chem. B., Chem. Phys. Lett., Chem. Phys.
            Nano Lett.,  ACS Nano, IEEE Trans. Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology
            Appl. Phys. Lett., Semiconductor Sci. Tech., J. Electron. Mat.

    Book Proposal Review:
             Cambridge University Press


Research Softwares
   
QMol:         Quatum mechanical modeling of Molecular electronic devices using first-principles method
   
ASNANO:   Atomic-scale Simulation of NANOstructured devices using self-consistent tight-binding method

Family
   
Married to Jina Mao, Dec. 1997
     We have just embraced the birth of our son Charles. We also have a cat Dolphin..

 

Friends

    Beijing Jingshan School Alumni