Professor Naihao Chiang is the Drs. Yao and Song Endowed Professor of Chemistry at the University of Houston.  His research focuses on fundamental light-matter interactions: manipulate light to induce new chem­i­cal and physical phenomena, and leverage these to pursue interdisciplinary projects linking physics, chem­i­s­try, materials science and biomedical engineering. The research builds upon my skillset and training, and involves instru­mentation, technology, and materials development to extend the capa­bil­i­ties of nano­scale op­tical processes. He seeks to formulate and interrogate new plasmonic/optical cavity enabled near-field phe­no­mena for fundamental studies of liquid-phase surface chem­is­try, with the aid of applica­tions in regenerative medicine.