Professor Xing receives the Michael Tien ’72 teaching award

"Cornell Engineering honored the transformative impact of its faculty at the 2025 Fall Faculty Reception, held Sept. 24 in the Statler Ballroom, recognizing this year’s Teaching and Advising Award winners for their outstanding commitment to student success. “The...

Wenwen Zhao joins RPI as a tenure-track Assistant Professor

Wenwen Zhao, who completed her Ph.D. in 2025 in the Jena-Xing lab at Cornell University, has joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering. Her research at Cornell...

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The central research theme in our group is to develop electronic grade semiconductors and understand the fundamental limits of these materials and their applications.  The essential scientific tools our group uses include epitaxy, basic material characterizations, transport theory and experiments, device theory and experiments.