Xing joined the
University of Notre Dame (UND) in 2004 as an
assistant professor of engineering. She was selected by the
Air Force Office of Scientific Research as part of the 2008 Young Investigator Program as someone who "shows exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research." The following year, she was the recipient of a 2009
National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for her project "
Graphene and Graphene Nanoribbon Optoelectronic Properties and Devices." In 2010, Debdeep Jena and Xing received separate Department of Defense funding through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a project to create new
gallium nitride (GaN) ultraviolet light sources that can be used by soldiers to purify water in the field. She received more funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy in 2013 for "projects aimed at developing next-generation power conversion devices that could dramatically transform how power is controlled and converted through the grid." Xing left UND in 2015 to join the
Cornell University College of Engineering as the Richard E. Lunquist Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow with a joint appointment in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Material Science and Engineering. In this role, she worked alongside her husband, Debdeep Jena, to create GaN power diodes capable of serving as the building blocks for future GaN power switches. The group built a GaN power-switching device that could support 2,000 volts of electricity. As a result of her research, Xing was selected to join the national consortium to develop future cellular infrastructure. She was also elected the first William L. Quackenbush Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 2019, Xing was elected a Fellow of the
American Physical Society (APS) "for pioneering contributions in polar wide-bandgap semiconductors, 2D crystal semiconductors, and layered crystals." During the
COVID-19 pandemic, Xing was appointed to a two-year term as Associate Dean for Research, Entrepreneurship, and Graduate Studies for the College of Engineering. Her co-authored paper
"Molecular beam homoepitaxy on bulk AlN enabled by aluminum-assisted surface cleaning" was selected as an Editor’s Pick in the journal
Applied Physics Letters. Xing also led a research team to investigate durable, energy-efficient, pausable processing in polymorphic memories (DEEP3M), where computational capabilities are pushed directly into the high-capacity memories. In 2021, Xing was elected Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). ==References==