résumé

Ph.D.

Yale University, New Haven, USA

• Applied Physics Department
• Advisor : Prof. Jack G. E. Harris
• Dissertation : Manipulating and Measuring States of a Superfluid Optomechanical Resonator in the Quantum Regime
• Doctoral Thesis with Distinction

B.Sc.

Fudan University, Shanghai, China

• Physics Department
• Exchange student, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Fall 2015)
• Honor Student (Physics) in National Top Undergraduate Training Program
• Shanghai Outstanding Graduate

HQI Postdoctoral Fellow

Physics Department, Harvard University; Harvard Quantum Initiative

• PI : Prof. Mikhail D. Lukin
• Interfacing a mechanical oscillator with a single electron spin
• Levitodynamics of a micron-scale levitated magnet

Research Assistant

Physics Department, Yale University

• PI : Prof. Jack G. E. Harris
• Quantum control and readout of phonon states in a superfluid-helium-filled Fabry–Pérot fiber cavity
• Levitating superfluid helium droplets in vacuum for quantum optomechanics

Teaching Fellow

Physics Department, Yale University

• Harvard Quantum Initiative Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship

• Yale Doctoral Thesis with Distinction

• Yale Graduate Travel Fellowship

• Yale Graduate Fellowship

• Shanghai Outstanding Graduate (top 5%)

• Honor Student (Physics) in National Top Undergraduate Training Program

• Xueersi Fellowship (top 3%)

• 1st Prize, China Undergraduate Mathematics Contest in Modeling (CUMCM)

APS March Meeting Session Chair

American Physical Society

Yale Graduate Student Ambassadors

Yale Physics Department

Yale-NUS Alumni Mentor

Yale-NUS College

Quantum Phononics Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI)

Contributing researcher (Corresponding PI : M. D. Lukin; Lead PI : Konrad Lehnert)

• Drafted three annual technical reports
• Presented project progress at four annual program reviews (2023–2026)

Quantum Co-design of Materials and Mechanisms for Electro-acousto-optical Transduction

Contributor (Corresponding PI : M. D. Lukin; Lead PI : Jennifer Hoffman)

• Proposal submitted 2026
• Wrote the quantum-sensing pedagogical box and contributed to the thrust on system integration and transduction-enabled quantum applications

PHYSICS 271 Topics in the Physics of Quantum Information

EXTERNAL TEACHING ASSISTANT, HARVARD

• External teaching assistant (final presentations) for Prof. M. D. Lukin.

PHYS 201 Fundamental Physics

GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT FELLOW

• Lead introductory physics lecture discussions, grade homework and exams.

PHYS 508 Quantum Mechanics I

GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT FELLOW

• This is a graduate level course. My works include leading group discussions, holding office hours, grading homework and making solution manuals.

PHYS 4710 Independent Projects in Physics

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH INSTRUCTOR

• Mentored undergraduate independent research projects for Prof. J. G. E. Harris.

Felipe Abreu (Undergraduate, MIT)

Magnetometry of a levitated magnet

Addison NewRingeisen (Graduate, Harvard)

Driving mechanical resonators via a single electron

Alexander Polo (Graduate, Harvard)

Exploring dynamics of vortices in superconductors

Binhan Hua (Graduate, Harvard)

Toward entangling distant NVs via mechanical resonators

Trisha Madhavan (Graduate, Harvard)

Levitated magnets: sensing and quantum coupling

Frankie Fung (Graduate, Harvard)

Toward a mechanical interface for mediating spin-spin interactions

DaLi Schaefer (Graduate, Harvard)

Toward high-cooperativity spin-mechanics with levitated magnets

Theophilus Human (Graduate, Yale)

Levitated superfluid helium drops for optomechanics

Igor Brandao (Graduate, Yale)

Levitated superfluid helium drops for optomechanics

Daniel Sibilia (Graduate, Yale)

Magnetic levitation of helium-3

Juan Recaoro (Undergraduate, Yale)

Optomechanics in supercooled water droplets

Giovanna Turong (Undergraduate, Yale)

Magnetically levitated supercooled water droplets

Chitres Guria (Graduate, Yale)

Levitated superfluid helium drops for optomechanics

Mehmet Tuna Uysal (Undergraduate, Yale)

Optomechanics of whispering gallery modes in liquid helium

Oral presentation

Annual Meeting of DAMOP, Providence, RI

Oral presentation

Quantum Phononics MURI Grant Review, Arlington, VA

Oral presentation

APS March Meeting, Denver, CO

Poster

Center for Ultracold Atoms Winter Conference, Plymouth, NH

Poster

HQI-RIKEN Quantum Workshop, Cambridge, MA

Oral presentation

Quantum Phononics MURI Grant Review, Arlington, VA

Oral presentation

APS March Meeting, Anaheim, CA

Poster

Center for Ultracold Atoms Winter Conference, Plymouth, NH

Poster

Spin-Mechanics Workshop, Portland, OR

Seminar (virtual)

HKUST Physics Seminar, Hong Kong

Oral presentation (virtual)

Quantum Information and Technology Conference, Shanxi

Poster

Quantum Noir, Cambridge, MA

Oral presentation

Quantum Phononics MURI Grant Review, Arlington, VA

Poster

Gordon Research Conference, Ventura, CA

Poster

Center for Ultracold Atoms Winter Conference, Plymouth, NH

Interfacing Mechanical Resonators with Spin Qubits

MURI Kickoff Workshop, New Haven

Manipulating and Measuring States of a Superfluid Optomechanical Resonator in the Quantum Regime

Dissertation Defense, Yale, New Haven

Magnetic Levitation of Helium-3 Drops

APS March Meeting, Las Vegas

Manipulating and Measuring States of an Optomechanical Resonator in the Quantum Regime

McGill and University de Sherbrooke, Quebec

Manipulating and Measuring States of an Optomechanical Resonator in the Quantum Regime

JILA Science Seminar, Boulder

Poster

Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE), Snowbird, UT

Manipulating and Measuring States of an Optomechanical Resonator in the Quantum Regime

Harvard Quantum Initiative QuantumFest, Cambridge

Quantum Mechanics In a Macroscopic World

Science In The News, New Haven

Manipulating and Measuring States of an Optomechanical Resonator in the Quantum Regime

International Conference on Atomic Physics, Toronto

Optomechanics with Magnetically Levitated Helium-4 Drops

Gordon Research Conference, Ventura

Poster

Optica Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition, Boston

Experimental Test of Quantum Gravity Induced Non-locality Using a Liquid Helium Filled Cavity

APS March Meeting, Chicago

Measurement of Non-classical Photon-Phonon States in a Superfluid Optomechanical System

APS March Meeting, Virtual (Mar 2021); NONGAUSS Workshop, Virtual (May 2021)

Quantum Optomechanics in a Levitated 4He Drop

Yale Quantum Institute Talk, New Haven