VALUES

Teaching Assistantship and Mentorship

Teaching assistant for Physics of Measurement (Ph 118, graduate level, instructor: Prof. Michael Roukes), gave a lecture on Fourier transform, led office hours, graded homework, and drafted homework answer on a biweekly basis for 20 students.

California Institute of Technology, 2021

Thesis mentor for Tianchuang Luo (graduate) on developing advanced terahertz polarimetry and nonlinear spectroscopy techniques to measure excitations in quantum magnets.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-Now

Thesis mentor for Kyoung Hun Oh and Zongqi Shen (graduate) on employing advanced ultrafast electron and X-ray scattering techniques to study the dynamics of charge density waves.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-Now

Thesis mentor for Preston Zhou (undergraduate) on building a transient reflectivity setup and measuring coherent phonon spectroscopy on elemental tellurium.

California Institute of Technology, 2019

Thesis mentor for Xirui Wang (undergraduate) on simulating the thermal gradient and temperature distribution in a ultrahigh vacuum cryogenic chamber using COMSOL.

California Institute of Technology, 2019

Summer research mentor for Mathias Driesse (undergraduate) on first-principles simulations of coherent phonons in Ca2RuO4.

California Institute of Technology, 2022

Summer research mentor for Gianluca R. Delgado (undergraduate) on simulating the amplification of Higgs mode.

California Institute of Technology, 2021

Summer research mentor for Carmen D. Strassle (undergraduate) on simulating the dynamics of excitonic insulator.

California Institute of Technology, 2020

Scientific Outreach

Judge at the Annual Science and Engineering Fair for high school students.

Pioneer Charter School of Science, 2023,2024

DEI journal club committee member, organized nearly ten DEI-orientated journal clubs in two years.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-Now

Mentor for high school students Ian Choi and Christopher Cheung on performing coherent phonon spectroscopy measurements on the van der Waals material CrSiTe3.

California Institute of Technology, 2019

Mentor for high school student Bryan Cheng on conducting Raman scattering measurements on elemental tellurium.

California Institute of Technology, 2018

Mentor for high school student Oswin So on simulating coherent phonon excitation mechanism in elemental tellurium.

California Institute of Technology, 2022

Academic Service

Review editor:

Reviewed for journals:

Conference host:

Nature Review Materials

Nature Materials

Nature Communications

Physical Review Letters

Physical Review Materials

npj Quantum Materials

Nano Letters

Moore Postdoctoral Symposium, 2023

APS March Meeting, 2024

Frontiers in Electronic Materials