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THE COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND EARLY TENURE FOR DR. LI GE

WHEREAS, since joining The College of Staten Island in 2014, Dr. Li Ge has been a very active scholar in the fields of optics and photonics, having solely authored 46 research papers and four co-authored papers in such prestigious refereed journals as Nature Photonics, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X and Optica; and given 29 invited talks at international conferences, workshops, seminars and colloquia and

WHEREAS, internally he has been lauded for his work by being featured in the CUNY Research Foundation’s 2016 Annual Report and this year’s Graduate Center’s “Spotlight on Faculty”; and

WHEREAS, he has been the Principal Investigator on grants that brought $250,000 to CSI, monies which will be used to support students doing research with him. This includes a grant for $186,563 from the National Science Foundation, In addition, he has received an NSF Career Grant which will bring $500,000 to CSI; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Ge is an exceptional teacher who has put significant effort into experimenting with different teaching methods yielding outstanding evaluations both at CSI and the CUNY Graduate Center; and

WHEREAS, his service to the CSI and the CUNY Graduate Center has been both exceptional and varied, having overseen student research and served on faculty search, admissions and multiple curricular committees in addition to serving as the faculty advisor to the student-run Physics Club; and

WHEREAS, this recommendation for early tenure comes with the highest endorsement from the Personnel and Budget Committees of both the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the College of Staten as well as the academic administration of the College; now therefore be it

RESOLVED, that Dr. Li Ge of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the College of Staten Island be awarded early tenure in accordance with 6.2.c.(2) effective September 1, 2019, subject to financial ability.

EXPLANATION: Dr. Ge is an outstanding researcher and teacher and provides excellent and varied service to CSI and the Graduate Center.

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The College of Staten Island/CUNY

CURRICULUM VITAE

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2. RECOMMENDATION FOR (check one) EFFECTIVE DATE 08/23/2019-�����-

__Initial Reappointment __ Fourth Reappointment _x_ Tenure

__ First Reappointment __ Fifth Reappointment CCE for Lecturer __ Second Reappointment __ Sixth Reappointment _x_ Promotion to Associate Professor __ Third Reappointment __ Seventh Reappointment Promotion to Professor

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3. HIGHER EDUCATION

DEGREES (Institutions, dates attended, degree and field, date conferred) Yale University 08/2004-05/2010 PhD in Physics conferred on 05/31/2010 Peking University 09/2000-06/2004 BS in Physics conferred on 06/21/2004

4. EXPERIENCE

TEACHING

Institution Dates Rank FT/PT Dei;1artment Tenure Status College of Staten Island 0l/2014-current Assistant Professor FT Eng. Sci. & Phys. NoCollege of Staten Island 08/2013-01/2014 Substitute FT Eng. Sci. & Phys. No

Assistant Professor Yale University 08/2004-05/2008 Teaching Assistant PT Physics No

RESEARCH

Institution Dates Rank FT/PT Dei;1art111eut Tenure Status Princeton University 08/2010-08/2013 Research Associate FT Elec. Eng. NoYale University 01/2006-08/2010 Research Assistant PT Physics No

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8. Yiming Huang, "Spontaneous symmetry breaking in rotation-time symmetric systems" CUNY gra4uate student rotation (Fall, 2015)

9. Jie Gu, "Resonances in two-dimensional microcavities using a finite difference method" CUNY graduate student rotation (Fall, 2014)

10.Xujun Ma, "Conservation relation in PT-symmetric systems" CUNY graduate student rotation (Fall, 2014)

Undergraduate students

1. Piotr Marciniec, "Structural color and photonic crystals" Undergraduate research fellowship (Spring, 2018-Spring, 2019)

2. Denis Ladyzhensky, "Temporal evolution of coupled nonlinear systems" Undergraduate research fellowship (Fall, 2017)

3. Mario Bnyamin, "Coherent control of optical absorption using energy efficient structures" CUNY Coordinated Undergraduate Education (CUE) initiative (Spring, 2016)

4. Rachel Revzin, "Conservation relation in PT-symmetric multimode waveguides" Undergraduate summer research fellowship (Summer, 2015).

Visiting students

1. Lingxuan Zhang, "Beam dynamics and superfluidicity in non-Hermitian photonic lattices," Visiting graduate student from Wuhan Institute of Optical Science & Technology, China (Fall, 2016 - May, 2018)

II. STUDENT EVALUATIONS Submitted to P&B by OIRA

Fall, 201'8 1. ENS 356 "Theory of Electromagnetic Radiation" 3.38/4.00

Fall,2017 1. ENS 356 "Theory of Electromagnetic Radiation" 3.41/4,00 2. PHY 356 "Theory of Electromagnetic Radiation" 3.67/4.00

Fall,2016 1. ENS 356 "Theory of Electromagnetic Radiation" 3.43/4.00 2. PHY 356 "Theory of Electromagnetic Radiation" 4.00/4.00

Spring, 2016 1. ENS 356 "Theory of Electromagnetic Radiation" 3.73/4.00

Fall.2015 1. PHY 356 "Theory of Electromagnetic Radiation" 4.00/4.00 2. ENS 356 "Theory of Electromagnetic Radiation" 3.71/4.00 3. PHY 120 "General Physics I" 2.06/4.00

Spring. 2015 1. ENS 3 56 "Theory of Electromagnetic Radiation" 3.83/4.00