Experience
Education
01/2015 – 08/2020 Ph.D. in Physics, University of Notre Dame, U.S.
08/2013 – 12/2014 M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, U.S.
09/2011 – 07/2013 B.A. in Economics, Peking University, Beijing, China
09/2009 – 07/2013 B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China
Work Experience
Microsoft, Redmond, WA
Software Engineer10/2020 - Present
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center – Yorktown Heights, NY
Research Intern09/2019 - 11/2019
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Visiting Scholar08/2019 - 09/2019Quantum Architectures and Computation group (QuArC), Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
Research Intern05/2019 - 08/2019
IBM Research - Zurich
Research Intern06/2018 - 8/2018
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Visiting Scholar05/2017 - 08/2017
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Visiting Scholar05/2016 - 08/2016Talks
11/2019 Thermal Conductivity Modeling of MRAM Materials, IBM Research, Albany, NY, U. S.
10/2019 Abrikosov Vortices and Number Parity Effect in Superconductors, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA, U. S.
07/2019 Numerical Study of Non-Idealities in Nanowires, Microsoft QuArC, Redmond, WA, U. S.
03/2019 Network Science Approach to Confined Vortex Matter, APS March Meeting 2019, Boston, MA, U. S.
07/2018 Design and Simulation of Rising Ratchet, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Rüschlikon, Switzerland
07/2017 Stick-slip Phenomena and Single Vortex Manipulation within a Square Pinning Array, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, U. S.
07/2016 Collective Transport Properties of Driven Skyrmions with a Conformal Pinning Array, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, U. S.
Honors
Graduate School Professional Development Awards (Zahm Research Travel), University of Notre Dame, Aug. 2019
Graduate School Professional Development Awards (Zahm Research Travel), University of Notre Dame, Feb. 2019
DCMP Graduate Student Travel Awards, American Physical Society (APS), Jan. 2019
Graduate School Professional Development Awards (Notebaert Professional Development), University of Notre Dame, Dec. 2018
Graduate Student Union Conference Presentation Grant, University of Notre Dame, Dec. 2018
Outstanding Student Award, Peking University, Oct. 2012
Outstanding Student Award, Peking University, Oct. 2011
First Prize in Physics Olympiad for College Students, Beijing, China, Nov. 2010
Services
Student Member, APS (2016 - Present), IEEE (2012 - 2013)
Teaching Assistant, University of Notre Dame (2015 - Present): Quantum Mechanics I&II, Statistical Mechanics, Solid State Physics, Classical Mechanics
Other Experience
Visitor in Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich, Aug. 2018
AI/Machine Learning Workshop, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, July 2018
Princeton Summer School on Condensed Matter Physics: Many-body localization and frustrated magnetism, Princeton University, Aug. 2016
D-Wave Quantum Programming Tutorial, Los Alamos National Laboratory, June 2016