Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D. in Physics 2012-2015
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Adviser: Tao Han
M.S. in Physics 2009-2011
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Adviser: Tao Han
B.S. in Physics 2005-2009
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R.C.
Teaching EXP.
PHYS8011 Quantum Field Theory I Spring 2023
PHYS4101 Quantum Mechanics Fall 2021, Fall 2022
PHYS8901 Elementary Particle Physics I Spring 2022, Spring 2024
PHYS1301W General Physics Fall 2023
Awards and honors
Block Award
Martin and Beate Block Scholarship Fund, Aspen Center of Physics, 2019
Award for Outstanding Self-funded Students Abroad
China Scholarship Council, P.R. China, 2015
Fermilab Graduate Student Research Program in Theoretical Physics(formerly: Fermilab Fellowship in Theoretical Physics)
Theoretical Physics Group, Fermilab, 2014
Thomas-Lain Scholarship (Essay competition award)
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Pittsburgh Foundation, 2014
LHC Theoretical Initiative (LHC-TI) Graduate Fellowship
NSF, 2014 (selected by the committee; funding held off due to budget.)
PITT-PACC Predoctoral Fellowship
School of Art and Science, University of Pittsburgh, 2013
Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship
School of Art and Science, University of Pittsburgh, 2013
LHC Theoretical Initiative (LHC-TI) Travel/Computing Award
NSF, 2011
National Scholarship of China
Ministry of Education of P.R. China, 2009
Top 100 Thesis in Excellence
(Dimer Model and Toric Singularities, supervised by Bo Feng)
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 2009
Excellence Award of East China Mathematical Modeling Contest
Committee of Universities in Eastern China, 2007
First and Second-class Academic Scholarship
(Top 3% and 8%), Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 2005-2008
Positions/Employment
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Dec.2020-
Assistant Professor
Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Maryland Sep.2018-Dec.2020
Postdoctoral Researcher
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Sep.2015-Sep.2018
Research Associate
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Aug.2014-Aug.2015
Graduate Research Fellow
University of Pittsburgh
PITT-PACC Predoctoral Fellow May.2014-Aug.2014
Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellow Aug.2013-Apr.2014
Graduate Research Assistant Jan.2012-Jul.2013
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Graduate Research Assistant Summer 2010, 2011
Graduate Teaching Assistant Jul.2009-Dec.2011
Research Team
Graduate:
(U of Minnesota, Twin Cities) Ishmam Mahbub, Apr. 2022–now
(U of Minnesota, Twin Cities) Peiran Li, Apr. 2022–now
Summer-Research Graduate:
(U of Minnesota, Twin Cities) Ibrahim Atilla, May. 2021-Nov. 2021
(U of Minnesota, Twin Cities) Yaren Aksel, May. 2021-Sept. 2021
(U of Minnesota, Twin Cities) Onuray Sancar, May. 2021-Sept. 2021
(U of Minnesota, Twin Cities) Saif Ullah Baig, May. 2021-Sept. 2021
Undergraduate:
NSF REU Program) (Appalachian State U), Collin (Wade) Hernandez, Jun. 2022- Aug. 2022
(Fudan U) Yifan Fei, Jun. 2023-Sept. 2023
(Fudan U) Tong Shen, Jun. 2023-Sept. 2023
(NSF REU Program) (Binghamton University) Tiago Sereno, May. 2022- Aug. 2022
(U of Minnesota, Morris) Jett Johnson, Oct. 2021-Now
(U of Science and Technology, China) Tong Wu, Aug. 2021-Jan. 2022
Postdoc:
(U of Minnesota, Twin Cities) Kunfeng Lyu, Sep. 2021-Now
(U of Minnesota, Twin Cities) Sarrik Kalia, Sep. 2022-Now
OuTreach
Saturday morning physics
outreach to high school students and local people,Guide for the muon g-2 experiment tour
Fermilab, Feb., Apr. 2016, Feb. 2017
Guide for the Grid Computation Center (GCC) tour, Fermilab, Oct. 2016
Investing Now!
outreach to high school students,Guide for the magic of light section
U of Pittsburgh, Mar. 2014
Physics Festivals
-- outreach to university students and local citizensLeading organizer, including organizing Paper Plane Contest in coordination with news media, physics movie show, physics contests, etc.
Honored Merit Student (three times), Excellent Organizer (twice), Excellent Social Practice Participant Award (three times) by Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 2005--2008
Media Coverage:
Higgs portal and dark sector, by The Daily Galaxy
Long-lived particles and dark sector, by LiveScience, Phys.org, Yahoo News, Fox News, Breitbart, Futurism.com, Space.com, Earthsky, Astronomy.com, Discover Magazine, Futurity.org, Space Daily, Upi.com
Diboson resonances, by NewScientist
Nature News&Reviews with good emphasis on our work, by link
ALP dimuon searches, by UMN CSE Press, UMN Physics
Dark SRF coverage, by Fermilab Newsroom
ProFessional Activities
Program & Workshop organizations
Organizer Muons in Minneapolis Workshop, FTPI, University of Minnesota, Dec. 2023
Organizer Muon Collider Physics Benchmark Workshop, PITT-PACC, University of Pittsburgh, Nov. 2023
Organizer Westlake workshop on particle astrophysics and cosmology
Westlake University, Hangzhou, China, Oct. 2023
Organizer Aspen Summer 2023: New Opportunities in High Energy Physics, Aspen, Colorado, Jun-Jul. 2023
Convener Topical Group 9: General BSM Explorations Energy Frontier of Snowmass 2022; series of meetings and reports, Apr. 2020 – 2022
Scientific Program Committee International workshop on the high energy Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC) Nanjing U, Nanjing, China, Nov. 2021, Oct. 2022, Oct. 2023
Organizer IAS Program on High Energy Physics (HEP 2021), Conference and Theory mini-workshop, HKIAS, Hong Kong, Jan. 2021
Organizer Aspen Summer 2019: The Energy Frontier Beyond LHC Run 2, Aspen, Colorado, Aug-Sep. 2019
Organizer New developments on LLPs at (HL)-LHC, Topical remote meeting by theorists, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb experimentalists, Mar. 2019
Chair Double Higgs Production at Colliders Workshop, Fermilab, Illinois, Sept. 2018
Organizer New Ideas in Detecting Long-lived Particles, LBNL, Berkeley, California, Jul. 2018
Co-Chair (Re)interpreting LHC new physics search results workshop, Fermilab, Illinois, Oct. 2017
Organizer PITT PACC workshop: Non-Minimal Dark Sectors, U of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania July 2014
Coordinator MadGraph Collaboration Meeting, U of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 2012
Conference session organizations
Panelist Forum on Early Career Development Pheno Symposium 2023, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA, May. 2023
Convener Higgs and Top sessions, Joint Workshop of the CEPC Physics, Software, and New Detector Concept in 2022 Beijing, China, May. 2022
Convener BSM Higgs sessions of Higgs 2021 Conference (Higgs 2021) SUNY-Stony Brook, Oct. 2021
Convener BSM sessions of CEPC 2020 , Shanghai, Nov. 2020
Convener BSM-1(TeV Scale) Sessions of the 8th annual conference on Large Hadron Collider Physics (LHCP2020), Paris, France, May. 2020
Convener Physics sessions of the future lepton collider workshop, Catholic University, Washington DC, Apr. 2020
Convener Higgs Sessions of The 2019 International Workshop on the high energy Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC2019) IHEP, Beijing, China, Nov. 2019
Convener Higgs&Electroweak sessions of APS DPF meeting 2019, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, Jul.-Aug. 2019
Convener Higgs sessions of KAIST-KAIX workshop for future particle accelerators KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea, Jul. 2019
Convener BSM Sessions of Workshop on the Circular Electron-Positron Collider, EU Edition 2019, Oxford, UK, Apr. 2019
Convener BSM sessions of LCWS2018, U. of Texas-Arlington, Texas, Oct. 2018
Committee and Membership
Convener Working Group 3, Higgs Cross Section Working Group (HXSWG), Jan. 2019- Apr. 2022
Committee LPC Topic of the week program, Fermilab, Illinois, Feb. 2016-Aug. 2018
Convener Exotic Higgs decay subgroup, The LHC Higgs cross section working, group (LHCHXSWG) Sep. 2017-Dec.2019
Collaboration Member MATHUSLA Collaboration, Feb. 2018-
Collaboration Member Dark SRF (link1,link2), Feb. 2018-
Collaboration Member Windchime, Feb. 2021-
Member American Physical Society Aug. 2009-
Associated Member Pittsburgh Particle Physics Astrophysics and Cosmology center (Pitt-PACC), Aug. 2015-
Fellow Kavli Frontiers of Sciences, 2022
Referee Service
Journals
Europhysics Letters (EPL)
x 3
Nuclear Physics B (NPB)
x 5
European Physical Journal C (EPJC)
x 13
Physics Letters B (PLB)
x 3
Journal of Physics G (JPhysG)
x 9
Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP)
x 24
Physical Review D (PRD)
x 19
Physics of the Dark Universe
x 1
Chinese Physics C (CPC)
x 5
Physical Review Letters (PRL)
x 7
Sci Post
x 2
Physica Scripta
x 1
Nature
x4 (2 manuscripts 4 reports)
Science Bulletin
x1
Science China
x1
MDPI Physics
x3
Nature Communications
x1
Grant proposal reviews
Austrian Academy of Sciences doctoral fellowship (DOC)
Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program, DOE, United States
U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), United States/Israel
National Science Center, Poland
Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation of Chile, Chile