Associate Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HongKong, China.
Education:
University of Science and Technology of China, B.S. in Physics, 2004
University of Notre Dame, Ph.D. in Physics, 2009
Employment:
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 2009-2012
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012 - 2018
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2018 - present
Research and Professional Experience:
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Physics, and Center for the Study of Biocomplexity, University of Notre Dame, 2004 - 2009. Advisor: Mark S. Alber
Student Visitor, Group of Mathematical Modeling and Analysis (T-7), Los Alamos National Laboratory, summer 2006. Advisor: Yi Jiang
Student Visitor, Group of Mathematical Modeling and Analysis (T-7), Los Alamos National Laboratory, summer 2007. Advisor: Yi Jiang
Graduate Research Assistant, Group of Mathematical Modeling and Analysis (T-7) and the Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, summer 2008. Advisor: Yi Jiang
Postdoctoral Fellow, Rowland Institute, and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, 2009 - 2012. Advisor: Howard C. Berg
Student, Cold Spring Harbor course in Advanced Bacterial Genetics, summer 2012.
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012 - 2018
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2018 - present
Awards and Honors:
2007, Scholarship and travel award, the First Q-bio Summer School and Conference, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sante Fe, New Mexico.
2009, Thesis award, Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame.
2011, Semifinalist of Burroughs Wellcome Fund's Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI)
2017, Young Researcher Award, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2020-2025, RGC Research Fellow, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong SAR.