Professor in EECS and RLE at MIT.
jingkong@mit.edu | MIT Room 13-3065
Phone: (617) 324-4068 | Fax: (617) 324-5293
Professor Jing Kong is a principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She received the B.S in chemistry from Peking University in 1997 and the Ph.D. in chemistry from Stanford University in 2002. From 2002 to 2003, she was a research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, and from 2003 to 2004, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Delft University. She joined the MIT faculty in 2004 in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Professor Kong is member of the American Chemical Society, the American Physical Society, and the Materials Research Society. She received the 2001 Foresight Distinguished Student Award in Nanotechnology in 2001, the Stanford Annual Reviews Prize in Physical Chemistry in 2002, and the MIT 3M Award in 2005."
Administrative Assistant
Email | 1-617-407-7859 | Website | 36-807
Postdoctoral Fellows and Associates
Email | LinkedIn | Publication | Website | 13-3033
(Postdoc, 2022 Dec - )
Two-dimensional (2D) quantum materials.
Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures.
Interfacial interactions between crystals.
Exciton engineering and its applications.
Condensed matter physics.
Email | LinkedIn | Publication | 13-3077
(Postdoc, 2023 July - )
Wafer bonding.
Solid-state thermodynamics.
Two-dimensional materials.
Email | LinkedIn | Publication | 13-3037
(Postdoc, 2025 July - )
2D material physics and electronics.
Hf-based ferroelectric materials and memory.
Brain-inspired devices and software-hardware co-optimization.
Graduate Students
Email | LinkedIn | Publication | Website | 13-3025
(PhD student, 2021 Sep - )
Low-dimensional materials.
Chemical vapor deposition.
Microelectronics.
Email | LinkedIn | Publication | Website | 13-3025
(PhD student, 2022 Dec - )
Automation of 2D material synthesis.
Machine learning for synthesis process optimization.
AI-empowered material image characterization.
Email | LinkedIn | Publication | 13-3021
(Visiting Student, 2023 Sep- 2024 Feb;
PhD student, 2024 Sep -)
Two-dimentional materials.
Van der Waals (vdW) ferroelectric materials.
Chemical vapor deposition.
Email | LinkedIn | Publication | 13-3021
(PhD student, 2025 Sep - )
Reaction engineering of CVD.
Kinetics-informed growth of 2D materials.
Optical characterization.
Email | LinkedIn | Publication | 13-3021
(PhD student, 2025 Sep - )
Reaction engineering of CVD.
Kinetics-informed growth of 2D materials.
Optical characterization.
Visiting Students and Scholars
Alumni
Email | LinkedIn | Publication | Website | 13-3073
(Visiting student, Aug 2021 - Dec 2025)
Two-dimensional materials
Vapor phase synthesis
Optical spectroscopy
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University
Email | LinkedIn | Publication | 13-3025
(PhD student, Sep 2020 - Sep 2025)
Two-dimensional materials, graphene.
Chemical vapor deposition.
Current Affiliation: Lam Research.
Email | LinkedIn | Publication | Website | 13-3025
(PostDoc, Oct 2023- May 2025)
Chemical vapor deposition, functionalization.
Graphene, suspended 2D materials.
Current Affiliation: Department of Electronic Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan.
Email | LinkedIn | Publication | 13-3073
(Postdoc, Oct 2023 - Oct 2025)
Growth and application of 2D materials.
Fabrication and characterization of 2D heterostructures.
Current Affiliation: Senior postdoctoral associate in Mechanical Engineering at MIT.
Email | LinkedIn | Publication | Website | 13-3033
(Visiting student, Mar 2024 - Jan 2025)
Graphene-based heterostructures and their energy applications
Atomically engineered electrochemical catalysts for efficient water splitting.
Current Affiliation: Department of Electronic Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan.
Email | LinkedIn | Publication | Website | 13-3037
(PhD student, graduate researcher, Sep 2005 - July 2012)
2D materials, graphene and carbon nanostructures.
Advanced characterization, applications of nanomaterials.
Current Affiliation: Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
Email | LinkedIn | Publication | Website
(PostDoc, Oct 2007 - Aug 2009)
Nanoscience and graphene.
2D material synthesis and applications.
Current Affiliation: Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
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(PostDoc, Sep 2012 - Sep 2016)
Low dimensional materials synthesis.
Spectroscopy, Raman scattering, optoelectronic devices.
Current Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Boston University.
Email | LinkedIn | Publication | Website | 13-3033
(Postdoc, Oct 2018 - Mar 2025)
Carbon nanotubes, graphene.
Electrical control of CVD.
Current Affiliation: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University, China.
Email | LinkedIn | Publication | 13-3021
(PostDoc, Jan 2017 - Jan 2022; Research Scientist, Jan 2022 - Aug 2025)
Van der Waals (vdW) ferroelectric materials.
Optical spectroscopy, nonlinear optical effect.
Current Affiliation: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, China.
Email | LinkedIn | Publication | Website | 13-3025
(Postdoc, Nov 2021 - Aug 2024)
Nanoscale transistors, cold-source FET.
Two-dimensional materials.
Tunneling field effect transistor.
Current Affiliation: School of Electronics, Peking University, China
Email | LinkedIn | Publication | Website
(PhD student, research specialist, Jun 2015 - Dec 2022)
Condensed matter and high-pressure physics.
2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs).
Current Affiliation: Harvard Quantum Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University.
Email | LinkedIn | Publication | Website | 13-3077
(Postdoc (since 2017 Sep); research Scientist (Sep 2022 - June 2023))
Nanoscience, physics.
Material science.
Current Affiliation: Materials & Equipment Manager at CDimension.
Email | LinkedIn | Publication | 13-3073
(PhD Student (2019 Sep 2023 May))
Two-dimensional materials
Machine learning
Smart manufacturinge
Current Affiliation: Technical Consultant, Horiba, Singapore.
