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Academic Achievements
Awards include Sloan Research Fellowship (2015), NSF CAREER award (2017), DOE Early Career award (2017), SIAM CSE Early Career award (2017), PECASE (2019), ACM Gordon Bell prize (Team) (2020), Simons Investigator in Mathematics (2021). Selected as an Outstanding Referee by APS in 2025, and will be an invited speaker at ICM 2026.
Research Experience
Current positions: Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, 2014, 2018, 2022--present; Senior Faculty Scientist, Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2024--present; Member of the Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA), 2014--present; Former Research Scientist (Career Track) and Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellow, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2013-2014 and 2011-2013 respectively.
Education
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Princeton University, 2011; Advisors: Professor Weinan E (Mathematics), Professor Roberto Car (Chemistry and Physics). B.S. in Mathematics from Peking University, 2007.
Background
Research Interests: Solving quantum many-body problems via both classical and quantum algorithms, with applications in quantum chemistry, quantum physics, materials science, and quantum information theory. Brief Introduction: Professor in the Department of Mathematics at UC Berkeley and Senior Faculty Scientist in the Mathematics Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.