Academic Appointments and Degrees

2018 - now, Professor, Department of physics, UCSB ;
2014 - 2018, Associate Professr, Department of physics, UCSB ;
2010 - 2014, Assistant Professr, Department of physics, UCSB ;
2007 - 2010, Junior fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University;
2007, PhD of physics, Department of physics, UC Berkeley, Advisor: Prof. Joel E. Moore;
2003, Bachelor of Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing.

Postdoc Collaborators:

Eun-Gook Moon (now faculty at KAIST),
Yi-Zhuang You (now faculty at UCSD),
Chao-Ming Jian (now faculty at Cornell Univeristy),
Xiao Chen (now faculty at Boston College),
Tianci Zhou (now faculty at Virginia Tech),
Anna Keselman (now faculty at Technion),
Zhu-Xi Luo (to join Georgia Tech as faculty member),
Mengxing Ye (to join University of Utah as a faculty member),
Wenjie Ji (to join Caltech as a postdoc),
Jong-Yeon Lee (to join UIUC as a faculty member),
Shang Liu;

PH.D. Students:

Kevin Slagle (now faculty at Rice University),
Zhen Bi (now faculty at Penn. State University),
Alex Rasmussen,
Xiao-Chuan Wu (now postdoc in University of Chicago),
Yichen Xu (now postdoc in Cornell University),
Kelly Ann Pawlak (now at Atom Computing),
Nayan Myerson-Jain,
Kaixiang Su;

Research Interests:

Strongly correlated electron systems;
Unconventional quantum phase transitions and quantum criticalities ;
Duality between conformal field theories;
Topological phases and symmetry protected topological phases ;
Non-Fermi liquids;
Correlated physics in moiré systems;
Quantum many-body systems and quantum information.

Awards and Honors:

Simons Investigator, awarded by the Simons Foundation (2019);
Packard Fellowship, awarded by the David & Lucile Packard Foundation (2012);
National Science Foundation Early Career Award (2012);
Sloan Research Fellowship, awarded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2011);
Outstanding Young Researcher Award, awarded by the Overseas Chinese Physics Association (2010);