I am originally from Guangzhou, China. One of the landmarks of my hometown is the Canton Tower by the Pearl River, whose twisting silhouette resembles a rational doubly ruled surface. Growing up in a family of doctors whose work was not only technical but also deeply human quietly shaped how I relate to math, to myself, and to many things I care about.
I spent one year of high school in Germany. In tenth grade, I lived in Wülperode, a small village in the Harz region of Saxony-Anhalt, about an hour’s drive from Göttingen.
I completed my undergraduate studies at Colby College, where I majored in mathematics and minored in physics. My undergraduate advisors were Fernando Q. Gouvêa and Scott A. Taylor. Colby was also the undergraduate home of Marston Morse, whose work in Morse theory has had a lasting influence on geometric topology and has provided one of the main languages through which I think about smooth manifolds.
I am now a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Mathematics at UC Davis and advised by Laura Starkston.
Outside of math, I enjoy photography, specialty coffee, classical music, reading, working out, and finding small beautiful things in everyday life.