Research Interests: Physics and design of nanodevices for energy-efficient computing devices and systems based on 2D semiconductors and heterostructures. Research focus: (1) First-principles discovery and design of functional 2D semiconductors and contacts for nanodevice applications (2) 2D materials energy converters and catalysts (3) Valleytronic, spintronic and neuromorphic device design (4) Charge injection/transport in nanoscale structures