Shengxi Huang is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, and Department of Bioengineering at Rice University. Shengxi earned her PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT in 2017, under the supervision of Profs. Mildred Dresselhaus and Jing Kong. Following that, she did postdoctoral research at Stanford University with Profs. Tony Heinz and Jonathan Fan. Shengxi’s awards and honors include NSF CAREER Award, AFOSR Young Investigator Award, Johnson & Johnson STEM2D Scholar’s Award (6 awardees worldwide in 6 disciplines), Kavli Fellowship for Nanoscience, Jin Au Kong Award for Best PhD Thesis at MIT, and the inaugural Ginzton Fellowship at Stanford.

Title of Talk: Designer Van Der Waals Materials for Quantum Optical Emission.