About Ming-Yu-Ngai
Ming-Yu Ngai received his undergraduate education both in Hong Kong and in the United States. He was introduced to research in chemistry as an undergraduate in the laboratory of Prof. Wai-Kin Chan and Prof. Chi-Ming Che, and graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He also performed his undergraduate research at the University of California, San Diego under the supervision of Prof. Michael S. VanNeuwenhze. He pursued graduate studies in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Texas at Austin, receiving his PhD in 2008. His graduate work with Prof. Michael J. Krische focused on transition metal-catalyzed reductive carbon-carbon bond formation under hydrogenation and transfer hydrogenation conditions. From 2009-2011 he was a Croucher postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University in the laboratory of Prof. Barry M. Trost. He was also a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University where he worked in the laboratory of Prof. Tobias Ritter. In 2013, Ming was appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Stony Brook University.
Education
2011-2013 Harvard University, Post-doctoral Fellow
Advisor: Professor Tobias Ritter
2009-2011 Stanford University, Croucher Post-doctoral Fellow
Advisor: Professor Barry M. Trost
2004-2008 The University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D., Chemistry
Ph.D. Advisor: Professor Michael J. Krische
Dissertation Title: “Transition Metal-Catalyzed Reductive Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation under Hydrogenation and
Transfer Hydrogenation Conditions.”
Transfer Hydrogenation Conditions.”
2002-2003 The University of California, San Diego, Exchange Student
Undergraduate Research Advisor: Professor Michael S. VanNeuwenhze
2000-2003 The University of Hong Kong, B.Sc. Chemistry
Undergraduate Research Advisor: Professor Chi-Ming Che and Professor Wai-Kin Chan
Awards & Honors
2019 NSF CAREER Award
2018 Young Academic Inventor’s Award (National Academy of Inventors – SBU Chapter)
2016 Maximizing Investigator Research Award (NIGMS, 2016-2021)
2016 Individual Development Awards (SBU)
2016 Individual Development Awards (SBU)
2009-2011 Croucher Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
2007-2008 Wendell Gordon Fellowship (The University of Texas at Austin)
2007 William S. Livingston Award for the Outstanding Graduate Student Academic Employee
(The University of Texas at Austin)
2004-2005 Robert H. Hamilton/Eugene P. Schoch Fellowship (The University of Texas at Austin)
2003 The National Society of Collegiate Scholars (The University of California, San Diego)
2002-2003 HKU Worldwide Undergraduate Student Exchange Program Scholarship
(The University of Hong Kong)
2002-2003 Dean’s Honors List (The University of Hong Kong)
2002-2003 Cheung King Pak Memorial Scholarship (The University of Hong Kong)