CV

Work

Harvard University, Harvard Quantum Initiative (HQI) Prize Postdoctoral Fellow
2025 – 2028

  • Simons Collaboration on Ultra-Quantum Matter (UQM) Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Hosts: Ashvin Vishwanath and Eslam Khalaf.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joint Postdoctoral Fellow
2025 – 2028

  • Hosts: Patrick A. Lee.

Education

University of California, Berkeley – PhD in Physics
2020 – 2025

  • Advisor: Michael P. Zaletel
  • Graduate Fellow, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), 2024.01 – 2024.06.

University of California, San Diego – BSc (Honors) in Physics
2016 – 2020

  • GPA: 3.99 / 4.0
  • Intercampus Visitor, UC Berkeley, 2018.08 – 2018.12 (GPA: 4.0 / 4.0).

No. 2 High School of East China Normal University
2013 – 2016

  • GPA: 90 / 100.

Selected Awards & Honors

  • Jackson C. Koo Award, UC Berkeley Department of Physics (2025).
  • KITP Graduate Fellowship, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (2024).
  • Shang-keng Ma Memorial Award, UC San Diego (2020).
  • Selma and Robert Silagi Award for Undergraduate Excellence, UC San Diego (2020).
  • First Award, Patent and Trademark Office Society, Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) (2015).

Teaching & Service

Referee

  • Nature, Nature Communications (2024 – Present).
  • Physical Review X, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Physical Review Research (2022 – Present).
  • Reports on Progress in Physics (2025 – Present).

Proposal Reviewer

  • Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics (TCMP) program, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences (2025 – Present).

Teaching & Mentoring

  • Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley Physics
    • Physics 7B – Physics for Scientists and Engineers
    • Physics 8A – Introductory Physics (2020 – 2021).
  • Graduate and undergraduate mentorship on tensor networks and quantum Hall projects (2023 – 2025).
    • Jiechao Feng (PhD student at UC Berkeley), Mingxuan Wang (now PhD student at Princeton), Sian Yang (now PhD student at Pittsburgh), Kevin Ye, Yixin Zhang, Ruoyao Zheng.

Outreach

  • Grand award judge and Mandarin interpreter, Intel ISEF (2017 – Present).

Skills

  • Theoretical & Numerical Methods:
    Quantum many-body theory, topological field theory, DMRG and tensor networks, exact diagonalization.

  • Computing:
    Python (NumPy/SciPy), Julia, C/C++, Mathematica, high-performance computing and cluster workflows.