ACADEMICS
Ph.D., Department of Physics, New York University, New York, NY Sept. 2010 - Sept. 2015
Bachelor of Science, Major in Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China Sept. 2006 - Jul. 2010
Scientific Workshops
Boulder Summer School 2012: Polymers in Soft and Biological Matter
Beg Rohu 2013: Disordered Systems
Boulder Summer School 2015: Matter In and Out of Equilibrium
KITP Program 2015: Evolutionary Cell Biology
KITP Program 2016: Geometry, Elasticity, Fluctuations, and Order in 2D Soft Matter
KITP Program 2016: Quantitative Immunology
KITP Program 2016: From Genes to Growth and Form
Marine Biological Laboratory Courses 2016: Physical Biology of the Cell
KITP Program 2017: Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in Nature and the Lab
KITP Program 2018: Memory Formation in Matter
HONORS
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (2015-)
FGSA Travel Award for Excellence in Graduate Research, APS (2015)
Dean's Student Travel Grant, New York University (2015)
James Arthur Fellowship Nomination, New York University (2014)
Kessler Fellowship, New York University (2012-2015)
MacCraken Fellowship, New York University (2010-2012)
May 4th Scholarship, Peking University (2007-2009)
SKILLS
Mathematical and computational modeling: MATLAB, Mathematica, SurfaceEvolver
Programming and statistics: Python (Tensorflow, Keras), C/C++
Image analysis and illustration: Ilastik, Meshlab, Fiji, VMD
DNA sequencing and aligning: Oxford Nanopore, BWA, BLAST, SAMTools, Biopython
CURRICULUM VITAE