I started a new job in Jan 2023 as Assistant Professor (the title is Lecturer in the UK system) in Gravitational Wave Data Science. It is a permanent position in the Geometry, Analysis, and Gravitation group in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary University of London. 

My interest in astronomy and math started in my early childhood in Weihai, Shandong Province, a beautiful coastal city in China. Despite of a detour from astronomy studies due to family reasons, I was fortunate to be able to do my PhD in relativity physics in the Leonard E Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology, and Astrophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee under the supervision of Patrick Brady, finishing in May 2018. During my PhD training, I focused on building gravitational wave detection software and downstream science, in particular, cosmology.

After completing PhD degree, I moved to work with Dr. Vivien Raymond as well as Prof. Bernard Schutz and Prof. Patrick Sutton in the Gravity Exploration Institute at Cardiff University in Wales, UK in Sep 2018, with a focus on accelerating gravitational wave inference as well as searching for dark matter with LIGO. Moving outside the US was due to family reasons, but I am so grateful of the growth and opportunities provided by Cardiff that I would not want to go anywhere else. 

In Mar 2022, after spending over three years at Cardiff, I moved to work as a senior postdoc with Prof. Gabriela Gonzalez at the Louisiana State University, which is 40 minutes drive from the LIGO Livingston detector site in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. My focus at LSU was on gravitational wave detector characterization, as well as gravitational wave inference and astrophysics.