Employment

• Aug 2022 - Present: Assistant Professor of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore

• Sept 2020 - Aug 2022: Stanford Institute of Theoretical Physics Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Stanford CA

• Sept 2017 - Aug 2020: Gordon and Betty Moore Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge MA

Education

• July 2015 - Aug 2017: Doctorat es sciences, mention physique (DSc in physics, equivalent to PhD in the US), University of Geneva, Switzerland, Advisor: Dmitry Abanin

• Aug 2014 - July 2015: PhD Candidate in Physics (transferred), University of Waterloo, ON

• Aug 2013 - June 2014: MSc in Physics (Perimeter Scholars International), University of Waterloo, ON, Advisor: Guifre Vidal

• Sept 2009 - May 2013: BA in Physics, Magna cum Laude (GPA: 3.80/4.00), Princeton University, Princeton NJ, Senior Thesis Advisor: Duncan Haldane

Awards and Honors

• Presidential Young Professorship, National University of Singapore

• Young NUS Fellow, NUS Development Grant AY 2019/2020, National University of Singapore

• Gordon and Betty Moore Postdoctoral Fellowship (Accepted), Harvard University

• Princeton Center for Theoretical Science (PCTS) Postdoctoral Fellowship (Declined), Princeton University

• Allen G. Shenstone Prize in Physics, Princeton University

• Kusaka Memorial Prize in Physics, Princeton University

• 37th International Physics Olympiad: Bronze, Singapore

• 7th Asian Physics Olympiad: HM, Kazakhstan

Invited Talks

• Sep 2022: Quantum many-body physics and quantum information science in the age of NISQ devices, Institute of Physics Singapore, Nanyang Technological University

• Aug 2022: Exact emergent quantum state-designs from quantum chaotic dynamics, Kwek Group Meeting, CQT, NUS Singapore

• Mar 2022: Exact emergent quantum state-designs from quantum chaotic dynamics, QI Seminar, MIT

• Mar 2022: Exact emergent quantum state-designs from quantum chaotic dynamics, Kid's Seminar, Harvard

• Feb 2022: Exact emergent quantum state-designs from quantum chaotic dynamics, Center for Quantum Phenomena, NYU

• Dec 2021: Exact emergent quantum state-designs from quantum chaotic dynamics, Erwin Schrodinger Institute, 16th Joint Singapore-China Joint Symposium on Research Frontiers in Physics

• Nov 2021: Exact emergent quantum state-designs from quantum chaotic dynamics, Erwin Schrodinger Institute

• Oct 2021: Exact emergent quantum state-designs from quantum chaotic dynamics, (Virtual), KITP, Santa Barbara, CA

• March 2021: Exploring Non-equilibrium Many-body Physics in the age of Quantum Simulators, (Virtual), AMO Seminar, Stony Brook University, NY

• Feb 2021: Exploring Non-equilibrium Many-body Physics in the age of Quantum Simulators, (Virtual), UT Austin Center for Complex Quantum Systems Seminar, Austin, TX

• Nov 2020: Long-lived interacting phases of matter protected by multiple time-translation symmetries in quasiperiodically-driven systems, (Virtual) 11th Dynamic Days, National University of Singapore, Singapore

• Oct 2020: Ground state phases of 2D Rydberg atom arrays, Khemani Group Meeting, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

• Sept 2020: Quantum Many Body Phenomena Out of Equilibrium, (Virtual) UT Dallas Physics Colloquium

• Sept 2020: Interacting phases of matter protected by multiple time-translation symmetries in quasiperiodically-driven systems, (Virtual) Leeds-Loughborough-Nottingham Non-Equilibrium Seminars

• May 2020: Interacting phases of matter protected by multiple time-translation symmetries in quasiperiodically-driven systems, (Virtual) Kadanoff Seminar, University of Chicago, IL

• Feb 2020: Controlling nonequilibrium quantum matter, Candidate Seminars, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

• Feb 2020: Spin transport in a tunable Heisenberg model, Demler group meeting, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

• Feb 2020: Quantum many-body phases of matter in driven settings, Condesed Matter Seminar, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA

• Jan 2020: Exploring Quantum Many-body Physics with Quantum Simulators: From nonequilibrium many-body phenomena to resources for Quantum Science, Special Colloquium, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

• Nov 2019: Long-lived interacting phases of matter protected by multiple time-translation symmetries in quasiperiodically-driven systems, Sondhi group meeting, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

• Nov 2019: Long-lived interacting phases of matter protected by multiple time-translation symmetries in quasiperiodically-driven systems, Thermalization, MBL and Hydrodynamics Workshop, ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, India

• Nov 2019: Quantum many-body scarring: a weak ergodicity-breaking phenomenon, MIT Informal CMT Seminar, MIT, Cambridge, MA

• Sept 2019: Time crystals in black diamond: realization and exploration of quantum many-body dynamics in strongly interacting systems, Time Crystals and Related Phenomena, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

• Jan 2019: Quantum many-body scarring: a weak ergodicity-breaking phenomenon, ITAMP Lunch Seminar, CFA Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

• Jan 2019: Quantum many-body scarring: a weak ergodicity- breaking phenomenon, PAP Seminar, NTU, Singapore

• Oct 2018: Periodic orbits and quantum many-body scars: matrix product state approach, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

• Oct 2018: Discussion: Quantum Scars, DynQ workshop, KITP, Santa Barbara, CA

• Oct 2018: Bounds on Energy Absorption and Prethermalization in Quantum Systems with Long-Range Interactions, DynQ workshop, KITP, Santa Barbara, CA

• June 2018: Quantum Many-body Scarring in constrained models, Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics, Waterloo ON

• May 2018: Critical Time Crystals in Dipolar Systems, EPiQs Postdctoral Symposium, Monterey CA

• July 2017: Discrete Floquet Time Crystals, Quantum Seminar, IST Austria, Austria

• May 2017: Discrete Floquet Time Crystals, PAP Seminar, NTU, Singapore

• Dec 2016: Prethermalization in periodically driven many-body systems, CMP Special Seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge MA

• Oct 2016: Prethermalization in Floquet many-body systems without disorder, SynQ workshop, KITP, Santa Barbara, CA