Experience

  1. 🔎

    Research Assistant

    SUSTech
    Gap year due to COVID. Research Assistant with Dr. Xiuhao Deng.
  2. 🚗

    Undergrad visitor

    University of Virginia
    Short term summer visit to Prof. Olivier Pfister’s lab.

Education

  1. 🎓

    PhD Physics

    University of Maryland, College Park
    Thesis on Integrated Nonlinear Topological Photonics (INTP). Supervised by Prof. Mohammad Hafezi.
  2. 🏫

    BS Physics

    Nanjing University
    GPA: 4.5/5.0
Skills & Hobbies
Technical Skills
💻😊 Python & MATLAB

With AI it’s easy to code in any language, but I prefer python.

🖥️😉 Finite-Difference Time-Domain simulations (FDTD)

Powerful numerical tool to solve Maxwell’s equations. Lumerical or Tidy3D.

🔬😎 Integrated photonics

Design and measure of photonic integrated circuits.

✍️😟 Latex and Inkscape

Tools I use for paper writing.

Hobbies
⚽😆 Football

Namely soccer for Americans

🎮🤩 Video games

Games are for fun, don’t get angry unnecessarily.

🔭🗣️ Promoting Science

Yeah I like explaining science to people.

🏕️🚗 Diving into nature

It’s a good escape from lab. I like both nature and Nature, also science and Science.

Awards
Entrepreneur Lead. NSF I-Corp Award.
National Science Foundation ∙ March 2026
Awarded for our industry-potential research on high-yield integrated nonlinear photonics.
Finalist for UMD Invention of the Year.
University of Maryland ∙ March 2026
Awarded for our invention Topological Photonics Architecture for Optical Computing and AI (TOPAI).
School of Physics Elite Program Scholarship
Nanjing University ∙ November 2019
Awarded for excellence in physics studies.
Languages
90%
English
100%
Chinese