Employment
09/2022 - now Assistant Professor Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
09/2019 - 08/2022 Visiting Assistant Professor Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States
07/2017 - 08/2019 ANR MICROLOCAL Postdoc Institut Fourier, Grenoble, France
01/2017 - 06/2017 Visiting Scholar Institut Mathematique de Jussieu, Paris, France
Education
09/2012 - 05/2017 PhD Northwestern University
Advisor: Eric Zaslow
09/2008 - 05/2012 BSc Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Grants
2021-2023 Structured Quartet Research Ensembles (SQuaRE), American Institute of Mathematics
2020-2022 AMS-Simons Travel Grant, USD 5000 (awardee) + USD 1000 (math department)
Service
Committee
10/2021 Quanlifying exam committee
Event organization
01/2020 - 05/2022 Geometry and Topology seminar, Michigan State University
* I maintain an internal website for slides and recordings on MSU D2L
04/17-04/18/2021 AMS Spring Central Sectional Meeting
* Special session on "Legendrian knots and surfaces"
* Co-organized with Dan Rutherford
11/21/2018 Impromptu Graduate Student Workshop in Symplectic Topology, Northwestern
02/2017-05/2017 Student Meeting Group in Symplectic Topology, Sorbonne University
Mentoring
FS 2021 Plane partitions and dimer coverings. (co-mentor: Linhui Shen)
Undergraduate mentees: Pranjal Dangwal, Ruowei Ma
SS 2021 Knots, Graphs, and filling surfaces. (co-mentors: Linhui Shen, Daping Weng)
Undergraduate mentees: Lukas Brave, Pranjal Dangwal, Jamie Schmidt, Ke Wang
SS 2020 Knots and Cluster Algebras. (co-mentors: Linhui Shen, Daping Weng)
Undergraduate mentees: Noah Ankney, Linpu Gao, Xinning Shan