CV

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

• Queen Mary University of London  (Jan 2023-Present)

Lecturer (Assistant Professor equivalent) in Gravitational Wave Data Science in the School of Mathematical Sciences

• Louisiana State University  (Mar-Dec 2022)

Senior Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physics and Astronomy 

• Cardiff University  (Sep 2018-Mar 2022)

Research Associate at the Gravity Exploration Institute

EDUCATION

• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2018)

Ph.D. in Physics with Prof. Patrick Brady

Thesis title: Studies in Gravitational-wave Astronomy and Tests of General Relativity

• National Astronomical Observatories of China (2011)

M.Phil. in Astrophysics with Prof. Da-Ming Chen

• Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

B.E. in Space Engineering

GLOBAL COLLABORATIONS

• LIGO Scientific Collaboration full member (Since 2015)

• Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) consortium member (Since 2018)

• UK-China Gravitational-wave Excellence through Alliance Training (GrEAT) Network (2019-2020)

• Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen (GROWTH) member (2016-2018)

SELECTED AWARDS

• London Mathematical Society’s Emmy Noether Fellowship (2023-2024)

• 2022 IOP Publishing Outstanding Reviewer Award (2023)

• David Lichtman Research Excellence Fellowship (2017-2018)

• Royal Astronomical Society Group Achievement Award in Astronomy: awarded to the LIGO team (2017)

• Princess of Asturias Award: awarded to LIGO Scientific Collaboration (2017)

• Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics: awarded to LIGO Scientific Collaboration (2016)

(with a medal, a diploma, and a money award for every individual member)

• Gruber Prize in Cosmology: awarded to LIGO Scientific Collaboration (2016)

• UW-Milwaukee Graduate School Research Excellence Awards (2013-2018)

• UW-Milwaukee Chancellor’s Scholarships (2011-2018)

SELECTED GRANTS

• STFC Impact Acceleration Account Fund (Dec 2022-March 2023)

Principal Investigator. 

• Compute Canada Resource Allocation Competitions (Apr 2021-2024)

Co-Investigator, in charge of reduced order quadrature (ROQ) data to support fast parameter estimation of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) fourth (O4) observing run, with PI Jessica McIver. Approved for three years and the amount of computing resources allocated each year is ~$1.2M, with my share of about 10%.

• UK-China GrEAT Network on Gravitational Waves Working Package 2 Outreach (Nov 2019)

Principal Investigator for the STFC grant led by the University of Glasgow to reach out and lead workshops on gravitational wave public education activities in major high schools, universities, museums, and planetariums in Beijing, Weihai, and Zhuhai of China. 

• Cardiff University Grant for Student Recruitment (Dec 2019)

Principal Investigator for the unusual grant in Dec 2019-Jan 2020 to help recruit undergraduate and Master’s students for Cardiff University during the outreach activities in China.

• Summer Internship Program in Gravitational-wave Astronomy by the Gravity Exploration Institute of Cardiff University (Jun 2019)

Project supervisor for the grant to support an undergrad research intern selected globally for a maximum of 8 weeks in the summer.

• Cardiff University Summer Research Opportunity Program (Feb 2019)

Principal Investigator for the competitive grant to support a Cardiff University undergrad summer research internfor 8 weeks.