ABOUT
APPOINTMENTS
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, Aug 2017 - Present
Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Sep 2016 - Aug 2017
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Sep 2013 - Aug 2016
Postdoctoral Scholar, Enrico Fermi Institute
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, Sep 2013 - Aug 2016
Postdoctoral Scholar, High Energy Physics Division
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, Aug 2013
Thesis: Natural Supersymmetry and the Higgs Boson
Advisor: Vernon Barger
B.E. in Nuclear Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Jul 2008
Thesis: Measurement of Polarization of Cosmic Muons
AWARDS AND HONORS
Simons Emmy Noether Fellow, Perimeter Institute, 2025
LHC-TI Graduate Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2012
Elizabeth Hirschfelder Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2012
DPF Student Travel Award, American Physical Society, 2011
Outstanding Thesis Award, Tsinghua University, 2008
Fourth Place, Northeast China Chopin Piano Competition, 1999
GRANTS
PI, NSF Grant 2412875, 08/15/2024 - 07/31/2027, $255,000
“Unlocking Cosmic Mysteries Through Theoretical Particle Physics Studies”
PI, NSF Grant 2112680, 09/01/2021 - 08/31/2024, $225,000
“Probing New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider and Gravitational Wave Interferometers”
PI, Layman Seed Award, University of Nebraska Foundation, 08/01/2021 - 07/31/2022, $10,000
“A Multi-Messenger Probe of the Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry”
PI, NSF Grant 1820891, 09/15/2018 - 08/31/2021, $180,000
“Improving the Understanding of New Physics, from Particle Physics to Cosmology, at the LHC”
PI, Nebraska EPSCoR FIRST Award, NSF Grant OIA-1557417, 04/01/2018 - 03/31/2019, $25,000
“Improving the Understanding of New Physics, from Particle Physics to Cosmology, at the LHC”
TEACHING
PHYS 913: Electromagnetic Theory I, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Fall 2024
PHYS 811: Methods in Theoretical Physics I, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Fall 2019 - 2023
PHYS 918: Quantum Mechanics III, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Spring 2018 - 2024
ADVISING
Graduate Students
Cash Hauptmann (current), Anthony Hooper (Ph.D. 2024), Yu Hang Ng (Ph.D. 2022)
Postdoctoral Fellows
Kairui Zhang (2024 - 2024, next position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oklahoma)
Ke-Pan Xie (2021 - 2022, next position: Assistant Professor, Beihang University, China)
Andrei Angelescu (2017 - 2020, next position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute, Germany)
SERVICE
Reviewed grant proposals for U.S. DOE Office of High Energy Physics
Refereed publications for Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, Journal of High Energy Physics, The European Physical Journal C, Physics Letters B, Nuclear Physics B et al.
Faculty Advisor, UNL Physics and Astronomy Graduate Student Association, 2023 - Present
Department Examinations Committee, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2023 - Present
Department Awards Committee, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2023 - Present
Department Colloquium Committee, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2020 - Present
Department Advisory Committee, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2020 - 2023
Parallel Session Chair, Brookhaven Forum, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Sep 2019
Session Chair, WoPhyS, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2017 - 2018
Session Chair, Particle Physics on the Plains, University of Kansas, 2017 - 2019
Co-organizer, New Physics Interpretations at the LHC, Argonne National Laboratory, May 2016
Co-organizer, HEP Theory Seminars, Argonne National Laboratory, 2014 - 2015
Parallel Session Convener, Phenomenology Symposium, University of Pittsburgh, 2013 - 2016