Wenjuan Zhu received her Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Yale University in 2003. After graduation, she joined IBM Semiconductor Research and Development Center. She made key contributions to the 65nm and 32nm CMOS technology nodes. In 2008, she joined the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center and worked on 2D materials including graphene and layered transition metal dichalcogenides. In 2014, she joined the faculty at the University of Illinois and established a research group focusing on two-dimensional (2D) materials and nanoscale devices.