Publications & Preprints

2026 Ideal Bands in Tight-Binding Models

L. Zhao, Y. Ge, S. Ryu, J. Yu · arXiv Research Gate

2026 Two-magnon Response from Light Scattering in Altermagnets

    S. Li, L. Zhao, C. Jia · arXiv

2025 Reduced Density Matrices Through Machine Learning

A. A. Azam, L. Zhao, J. Yu · arXiv (Co-first author)

2025 Classifying Cool Dwarfs: Comprehensive Spectral Typing of Field and Peculiar Dwarfs using Machine

Learning

T. Zhou, C. A. Theissen, S. J. Feeser, W. M. J. Best, A. J. Burgasser, K. L. Cruz, L. Zhao · The Astrophysical Journal 992, 93 ·  arXiv · Data

Selected Conferences & Presentations

Oct 2026 Machine Learning Quantum Many-Body Correlations

NanoDay 2026 Research Symposium, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida · Poster Presentation

Mar 2026 Wilson-Loop–Ideal Bands in Tight-Binding Models

APS Global Physics Summit, Denver, Colorado · Contributed presentation (first author) ·  Abstract · Slides

Mar 2026 Machine-Learning Accelerated Calculations of Correlation Functions 

APS Global Physics Summit, Denver, Colorado · Contributed presentation (Co-first author) · Abstract

Mar 2026 Two-Magnon Excitations in Altermagnetism Probed by Inelastic Light Scattering 

APS Global Physics Summit, Denver, Colorado · Contributed presentation (Co-author) · Abstract

Mar 2026 Reduced Density Matrices Through Machine Learning

Graduate Student and Postdoc Seminar (GSPS), Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida · Research Talk · Slides

Jan 2026 Reduced Density Matrices Through Machine Learning

2026 Theory Winter School, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida (Co-first author) · Poster

Dec 2025 Reduced Density Matrices Through Machine Learning

Invited Seminar, Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania (Co-first author) · Slides

Nov 2025 Machine-Learning Accelerated Calculations of Reduced Density Matrices

Quantum Geometry and Moiré Materials, Institute for Fundamental Theory Workshop, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida · Poster

Jan 2025 Cool Stars, Hot Tech: Spectral Typing of M, L, and T Dwarfs with Machine Learning

245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, National Harbor, Maryland (Co-author) · NASA ADS · BAAS · Featured: AI & Astronomy Weekly

Jun 2024 Cool Stars, Hot Tech: Spectral Typing of M, L, and T Dwarfs with Machine Learning

22nd Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun (Cool Stars 22), San Diego, California (Co-author) · Poster

Jan 2024 Innovative Template Creation for Spectral Typing: A Study of Gaia DR3's Low-Resolution Spectra

243rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, New Orleans, Louisiana · Contributed presentation · NASA ADS · BAAS

Sept 2023 From Distant Stars to Data: Spectral Typing in the Era of Gaia Data Release 3

Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA) Session · Poster

Aug 2023 Spectral Typing All of Gaia Data Release 3: A Study of Low-Resolution Spectra

2023 Summer Research Conference (SRC), University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California · Oral presentation · Program · Slides

Aug 2023 A Machine Learning Approach to the Spectral Classification of Ultracool Dwarfs

2023 Summer Research Conference (SRC), University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California · (Co-author, by Tianxing) · Program