Our group's research focuses on understanding the structure of the nucleon and exclusive nucleon and nuclear processes at high energies in terms of quark and gluon degrees of freedom of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) using high energy electron and photon beams. Most of our group's work utilizes the novel experimental technique of scattering polarized electrons or photons from polarized gas targets. We have built a laser-driven polarized H internal gas target with the highest Figure-Of-Merit ever achieved for such a target. We have also built a high-pressure polarized ³He target to probe the neutron and ³He spin polarizabilities using the HIγS facility at the Duke Free Electron Laser Laboratory(DFELL). We are also embarking on a challenging experiment aiming at a two orders of magnitude improvement over the current limit on the neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM). A non-zero value of nEDM is a direct search for time-reversal symmetry violation. Such an experiment will make important contributions to the understanding of CP violation and to the search of New Physics beyond the Standard Model. We are also actively engaged in the search of exotic QCD states such as the phi-nucleon bound state, a QCD molecular state. We carry out our experiments at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) in Newport News, Virginia, the HIγS facility at DFELL, the Los Alamos National Laboratory and in the future at the Fundamental Neutron Beam Line at the Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.