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Academic Trajetory

 

Welcome to my personal webpage. I obained a Bachelor of Arts with highest honor in physics from UC Berkeley in May 2016. I graduated from MIT with a PhD in Physics in September 2021. I am currentlty a Director's Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. I signed up a class at Harvard in 2016 and use Harvard Scholar as my personal website.

 

I was an NSF-GRFP Fellow and worked toward my PhD thesis on bottom quark hadronization in quark-gluon plasma at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, Switzerland from 2018 - 2021.

 

From November 2020 to September 2021, I was awarded the DOE SCGSR to conduct R&D on EIC forward Electromagnetic Calorimeter in the hadron-going direction. I investigated the position and energy resolution performance of shashlik EMCAL with W and Pb absorber and different granularity. In addition, I conducted pi0 reconstruction with the EMCAL designs and studied the EM cluster probability as a function of energy for Deeply Virtual Meson Production Processes. We find that W/Cu with fine segmentation: 0.95 cm by 0.95 cm can reconstruct pi0 up tp E = 50 GeV. 

 

After graduation, I worked as a Director's Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos Nationa Laboratory on sPHENIX and PHENIX experiments. I am currently stationed at Brookhaven National Laboratory at Upton, Long Island, New York. I am looking for positions in academia, government, or industry after my completion of . 

My current research interest is mainly in studying the properties of Quark-Gluon Plasma, a type of hot and dense QCD matter creared under extremely high temperature and density condition and demonstrating perfect liquid behavior. Quark-Gluon Plasma is believed to exist in the early universe, several microseconds after the Big Bang.

 

To create and study the properties of Quark-Gluon Plasma in laboratories, we collide heavy nuclei at high energy using particle accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider located at the European Center for Nuclear Research in the border of Switzerland and France and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Long Island, New York. We use state-of-the-art particle detectors to record these collisions. I am currently a member of the CMS experiment and sPHENIX experiment working on data analysis and detector hardware upgrade. 

 

In addition, I spend sometime working on electromagnetic calorimeter research and development for future Electron-Ion Collider experiments.

 

I also serve as a reviewer for peer-reviewed journals and an external expert for grant proposal review.