About Me

I am a Astrophysics Ph.D Candidate at Yale University, advised by Gregory Laughlin and Malena Rice. In the Fall of 2025, I will start as a Flatiron Research Fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics. I am broadly interested in exoplanet dynamics and architectures. Specifically, I have worked on numerical methods and tools, tidal and spin evolution, and how the structure of planets affects the details of their dynamics.

I grew up in Shanghai, China, and attended Caltech for my undergraduate studies where I received my Bachelor’s in Astrophysics and Minor in Computer Science in 2020. I have also spent summers at Carnegie Observatories (working with Therese Hansen, 2018) and UC Berkeley (working with Burkhard Militzer, 2019).

My other past and present collaborators, in alphabetical order: Qier An, Mirek Brandt, Timothy Brandt, Ben Cassese, Sam Hadden, David Hernandez, Gongjie Li, Douglas Lin, Rosemary Mardling, Sarah Millholland, Hanno Rein, Dan Tamayo, Sean Wahl.

I recently defended my thesis! Check out the recording here :)