SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF PROF. PEI

Qibing Pei is professor of materials science and engineering since July 2004. He worked successively as a senior chemist at UNIAX Corporation, Santa Barbara, CA, which was later merged into DuPont Display, a senior chemist at Imation Corporation, Santa Paul, MN, and a senior research engineer at SRI International, Menlo Park, CA. His research interests cover a wide range of soft materials and span from materials synthesis, processing, to design of functional devices. He applies polymer synthesis and nanofabrication in the discovery of new polymers and hybrid materials.