Resume

Employment:

2025 - present: Associate Professor, Auburn University

2021 - 2025: Assistant Professor, Wichita State University

2020 - 2021: Britton Postdoctoral Fellow, McMaster University

2017 - 2020: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine

Education:

2012 - 2017:  Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of California, San Diego

Advisors: Prof. Lei Ni and Prof. Ben Chow

2011 - 2012: Research Assistant, Yau Mathematical Science Center, Tsinghua University

2007 - 2011: Bachelor of Science, Tsinghua University 

Research Grants:

2024-2027: National Science Foundation, DMS-2405257, $219,854.

2023-2025: National Science Foundation, LEAPS-MPS-2316659, $250,000.

2022-2027: Simons Collaboration Grant, $42,000.

Awards: 

2025: Excellence in Research Award, Wichita State University

2017: Powell Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, San Diego

2016: Inamori Fellow, University of California, San Diego, $15,000

2013: Baouendi Fellowship, University of California, San Diego, $3,500

Conference/Workshop Talks:

May 28, 2024: Special Seminar in Celebration of Rick Schoen's Contribution to UCI, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA

May 4, 2024: AMS Spring Western Sectional Meeting, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

May 22, 2023: Workshop on Ricci Flow, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Apr 20, 2023: XIX Red Raider Mini-symposium, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Oct 23, 2022: Chongqing Workshop on Geometric Analysis, Chongqing, China (virtual)

Nov 9, 2019: AMS Fall 2019 Sectional Meeting, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA

Jun 18, 2019: Workshop in Geometric Analysis for Young Researchers, Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Oct 27, 2018: AMS Fall 2018 Western Sectional Meeting, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

Jun 18, 2018: Workshop in Ricci Flow, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China

Mar 17, 2018: AMS Spring Central Sectional Meeting, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 

Jan 13, 2018: AMS Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, CA

Nov 4, 2017: AMS Fall 2017 Sectional Meeting, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA

Seminar/Colloquium Talks: 

April 30, 2025: Seminar on Analysis and Stochastic Analysis, Auburn University, AL

April 10, 2025: Colloquium, Auburn University, AL

Jan 21, 2025: Colloquium, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA

Jan 17, 2025: Geometry & Topology Seminar, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Dec 10, 2024: Colloquium, Auburn University, Auburn, AL

Nov 4, 2024: Geometry Seminar, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China (virtual)

Oct 25, 2024: Geometry & Topology Seminar, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA

Sep 23, 2024: Analysis Seminar, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Sep 11, 2024: Geometry Seminar, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Sep 4, 2024: Geometry & Topology Seminar, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

May 17, 2024: Differential Geometry Seminar, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

Apr 23, 2024: Geometric Analysis Seminar, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (virtual)

Jan 25, 2024: Geometry Seminar, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China (virtual)

Oct 16, 2023: Analysis Seminar, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Oct 6, 2023: Geometric Analysis Seminar, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

May 23, 2023: Differential Geometry Seminar, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA

May 8, 2023: Analysis and Geometric Analysis Seminar, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Nov 2, 2022: Geometric Analysis Seminar BICMR, Beijing, China (virtual, video available on bilibili)

Oct 13, 2022, Differential Geometry Seminar, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA (virtual)

Feb 3, 2022, Differential Geometry Seminar, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA (virtual)

Jan 31, 2022, Analysis/Geometric Analysis Seminar, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (virtual)

May 18, 2021: Geometric Analysis Seminar, Nankai University, Tianjin, China (virtual)

Jan 19, 2021: Geometric Analysis Colloquium, Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada (virtual)

Jan 15, 2021: Differential Geometry Seminar, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA (virtual)

Nov 26, 2020: Geometric Analysis Seminar, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China (virtual)

Oct 22, 2020: Geometry & Topology Seminar, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada (virtual)

Dec 6, 2019: Colloquium at California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA

Nov 6, 2019: Differential Geometry Seminar, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Jul 24, 2019: Geometry Seminar at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China

Jun 17, 2019: Differential Geometry Seminar, Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Feb 22, 2019: Differential Geometry Seminar, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

Feb 06, 2019: Differential Geometry Seminar, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Sep 7, 2018: Geometry Seminar, Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Sep 4, 2018: Geometry Seminar,  Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China

Jul 11, 2018: Differential Geometry Seminar, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Mar 2, 2018: Differential Geometry Seminar, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA

Dec 1, 2017: Geometric Analysis Seminar, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA

Oct 3, 2017: Differential Geometry Seminar, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA

Mar 9, 2017: Geometry & Analysis Seminar, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

Nov 9, 2016: Differential Geometry Seminar, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Mar 9, 2016: Differential Geometry Seminar, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA

July 17, 2016: Geometry Seminar, Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Aug 28, 2015:  PDE Seminar, Fudan University, Shanghai, China