Month: June 2025

Professor Elizabeth MY Lee, a Samueli Faculty Development Chair Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, has received the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award, one of the most prestigious honors for early-career faculty. The NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program supports early-career faculty with the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education…Continue Reading Professor Elizabeth Lee Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award

Congratulations to Shawn, an undergraduate researcher in the CeMi group, for being awarded the Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) fellowship. This award will support his research during the Summer quarter, where he will investigate electric-field-driven defect formation in diamond using ab initio simulations. Insights from this project will enable the scalable production of quantum defects,…Continue Reading Shawn Receives the Summer Undergraduate Research Program Fellowship

In collaboration with the UCI School of Engineering, the CeMi Lab organized an outreach event called IGNITE, aimed at introducing middle and high school students from Santa Ana to STEM fields, and provide guidance on college admissions and careers in engineering. The students visited our lab to explore the world of materials science and engineering…Continue Reading Inspiring the Next Generation: IGNITE Outreach Event