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Zhihong Chen

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Entrance of the Scifres Nanofabrication Laboratory in Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University

Zhihong Chen is a Chinese-American nanoelectronics engineer known for her research on the electronic properties of carbon nanotubes and graphene. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University.[1]

Education and career

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Chen graduated from Fudan University in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in physics. She went to the University of Florida for graduate study in physics, earning a master's degree in 2002 and completing her Ph.D. in 2003.[1]

After postdoctoral research for IBM Research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, she became a permanent research staff member at the center in 2006. She moved to Purdue University as an associate professor in 2010, and was promoted to full professor in 2017.[2]

Recognition

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In 2022, Chen was named an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to the understanding and applications of low-dimensional nanomaterials".[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Zhihong Chen", Our people, Purdue University Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, retrieved 2022-02-20
  2. ^ Curriculum vitae (PDF), April 2017, retrieved 2022-02-20
  3. ^ 2022 newly elevated fellows (PDF), IEEE, archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-11-24, retrieved 2022-02-20
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