Bio

I am currently (since Aug 2022) an Assistant Professor of Physics (Presidential Young Professor) at the National University of Singapore.

Previously, I was a Stanford Institute of Theoretical Physics Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University (Sept. 2020 - Aug 2022). I am also a Harvard Affiliate. Previously (2017 - 2020), I was a Gordon and Betty Moore Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University where I worked with Prof. Mikhail Lukin and Prof. Eugene Demler.

My research spans multiple disciplines of theoretical physics, including condensed matter, atomic phyiscs, and quantum information science. A non-exhaustive list is:

• Novel nonequilibrium quantum many-body phenomena
  - Quantum orders in dynamical settings e.g. time crystals, Floquet/quasi-periodic topological phases
  - Thermalization and its breakdown e.g. chaos, quantum many-body scars, generalized thermalization
  - Dynamics of quantum information/entanglement

• Novel methods for quantum-many systems
  - Rigorous mathematical approaches
  - Numerical methods e.g. tensor networks

• Applications for Noisy, Intermediate-Scale, Quantum (NISQ) devices
  - Quantum simulation of many-body phenomena
  - Hardware friendly quantum state tomography

I received my PhD from the University of Geneva under Prof. Dmitry Abanin, my MSc from the Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics under Dr. Guifre Vidal, and my undergraduate BA in physics (Magna cum Laude) from Princeton University, where I worked with Prof. Duncan Haldane. I grew up in Singapore and served as an army technical officer as part of my mandatory military service.

Links to my research articles: arXiv and Google Scholar