Jing Kong

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

Brianna Samuels

Email | 1-617-407-7859 Website | 36-807

 

Postdoctoral Fellows and Associates

Zachariah Hennighausen

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.

Tilo Hongwei Yang

Email LinkedIn Publication | 13-3077
(Postdoc, 2023 July - )

Wafer bonding.
Solid-state thermodynamics.
Two-dimensional materials.

Graduate Students

Xudong (Sheldon) Zheng

Email LinkedIn Publication Website | 13-3025
(PhD student, 2021 Sep - )

Low-dimensional materials.
Chemical vapor deposition.
Microelectronics.

Meng-Chi (Ed) Chen

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.

Yunyue Zhu

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.

Mia Baca

Email LinkedIn Publication | 13-3021
(PhD student, 2025 Sep - )

Reaction engineering of CVD.
Kinetics-informed growth of 2D materials.
Optical characterization.

Tomas Zeng

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

Zhien (Abigail) Wang

Email LinkedIn Publication | 13-3025
(PhD student, Sep 2020 - Sep 2025)

Two-dimensional materials, graphene.
Chemical vapor deposition.

Current Affiliation: Lam Research.

Shih-Ming He

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.

 

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