CV

[Curriculum Vitae]

Employment

• Vice-Chancellor Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track), Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2023-Present
  
  
• NSF Postdoctoral Fellow and Instructor in Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020-2023
  Sponsoring scientist: Jörn Dunkel
  
  

Education

• Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Harvard University, 2016-2020
  Advisors: L. Mahadevan and Chris Rycroft
  Thesis: Metamaterials, Morphometrics, Morphogenesis, and Mappings
  
  
• S.M. in Applied Mathematics, Harvard University, 2019
  
  
• M.Phil. in Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014-2016
  Advisor: Ronald Lok Ming Lui
  Thesis: Surface Conformal/Quasi-conformal Parameterization with Applications (with 2017 New World Mathematics Award, Silver Medal for Master Thesis)
  
  
• B.Sc. in Mathematics (with First Class Honors), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010-2014
  Streams:
  
  • Enrichment Stream in Mathematics
    
  • Computational and Applied Mathematics Stream
    
  Minors:
  
  • Computer Science
    
  • Earth System Science
    
    

Selected Awards

• SIAM Early Career Travel Award, 2022.
  
• NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2020-2023.
  
• SIAM Student Travel Award, 2020.
  
• NSF-Simons QuantBio Student Fellowship, Harvard University, 2019-2020.
  
• New World Mathematics Award, Silver Medal for Master Thesis, 2017.
  
• Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University, 2017.
  
• Best Poster Paper Award, Workshop on Applications-Driven Geometric Functional Data Analysis, 2017.
  
• Croucher Foundation Scholarship, Croucher Foundation, 2016-2019.
  
• Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence, HKSAR Government, 2016.
  
• Mr. Ch'ien Mu Postgraduate Scholarship, New Asia College, CUHK, 2016.
  
• Best Teaching Assistant Award, CUHK, 2014-2015.
  

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