EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Mathematics, University of California at Irvine, Jun. 2012

• M.S., Applied Mathematics, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, Jun. 2006

• B.S., Mathematics, National Central University, Taiwan, Jun. 2004

APPOINTMENTS

• Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Sep. 2019-Present

• Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Sep. 2015-Aug. 2019

• L. E. Dickson Instructor, University of Chicago, Sep. 2012-Aug. 2015

HONORS

• Simons Fellow, 2023

• UMN Thank a Teacher, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2021

• Young Scientist Award, Commission on Mathematical Physics, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, 2018

• Best Paper Gold Award, 1st  International Consortium of Chinese Mathematicians, 2017

• Kovalevsky Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award, University of California at Irvine, 2012

• Phi Tau Phi Membership, The Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society, 2003

• Chow Hung-Ching Scholarship, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2003

GRANTS

• PI, NSF DMS-2246715

Mean-Field Spin Glasses and Related Topics, Sep. 2023-Aug. 2026

• PI, NSF CAREER DMS-1752184

Mean Field Spin Glasses and Related Applications, Jul. 2018-Jun. 2024

• Co-Pi, Hong Kong Research Grants Council GRF-14302515

Asymptotic Theory of Mean-Field Spin Glass Models, Jan. 2016-Dec. 2018

• PI, NSF DMS-1642207

Some Problems on Mean-Field Spin Glasses, Jul. 2015-Jun. 2018

• AMS-Simons Travel Grant, Jul. 2014-Jun. 2016

EDITORIAL BROAD

• Associate Editor for Annals of Applied Probability, Jan. 2022~

• Associate Editor for Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics, Aug. 2023~

ADVISING AND MENTORING

Undergraduate Student Activities

• Tianyi Wei, Fall 2021: Senior Project

• Han Lu, Summer 2020: Research Project

• Mark Richard, Fall 2017 and Spring 2018: Senior Project and Senior Thesis

• Siyao Gu, Spring 2016: Senior Project

Graduate Student Activities

• Te-Lun Lu, Ph.D. student, co-supervision with Professor Arnab Sen since Fall 2023

• Heejune Kim, Ph.D. student, co-supervision with Professor Arnab Sen since Fall 2020

• Ratul Biswas, Ph.D. student, co-supervision with Professor Arnab Sen since Summer 2020

• Madeline Handschy, Ph.D. student,  graduated in Spring 2019, co-supervision with Professor Gilad Lerman. She works as a Data Scientist in WindLogics at St. Paul, MN

Post-doctoral Fellows Supervision

• Qiang Wu, Fall 2023-Spring 2026. 

• Wai-Kit Lam, Fall 2018-Spring 2021. Since Fall 2021, he is a tenure-track assistant professor at the Department of Mathematics in National Taiwan University, Taiwan

ORGAINZATIONS

Seminar

• Lehigh University and University of Minnesota Virtual Joint Probability Seminar, Sep. 2022-May 2023

• Lehigh University, Northwestern University, and University of Minnesota Virtual Joint Probability Seminar, Jan. 2021-May 2022

• Northwestern University and University of Minnesota Virtual Joint Probability Seminar, Sep. 1 2020-Dec. 2021

• Probability Seminar, University of Minnesota, Sep. 2015-May. 2020

• Probability and Statistical Physics Seminar, University of Chicago, Sep. 2012-Jun. 2015

Summer School and Workshop

• Co-organizer and instructor: Mathematical Spin Glass Theory, Simons-Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute, Aug. 5-16, 2024

• Instructor: Stochastic Methods and Computation, Lehigh University, Jul. 10-21, 2023

• Organizer: Summer Workshop on Random Structures in Optimizations and Related Applications, University of Minnesota, Jun. 5-16, 2023  

• Instructor: 2022 Summer School on Random Matrices, the University of Michigan, Jun. 13-24, 2022

• Organizer: Virtual Summer School on Random Structures in Optimizations and Related Applications, University of Minnesota, Jun. 21-30, 2021  

Conference

• Parallel Session on Spin Glasses and Random Matrices in Stochastic Processes and Their Applications (SPA) conference, Wuhan, China, Jun. 27-Jul. 1, 2022

• Co-Chair: Asymptotic Theory in Probability and Statistical Physics, 12th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Taiwan, Jul. 5-9, 2018

• Member of Organizing Committee: Spin glasses and related topics, BIRS, Canada, Sep. 30-Oct. 5, 2018

Scientific Committee

• 38th Midwest Probability Colloquium, Northwestern University, Oct. 13-16, 2016