Experience

  1. 2024-02 – Present

    Postdoctoral Researcher

    KU Leuven · Leuven, Belgium

    Working on the Einstein Telescope geometry design problems, Newtonian noise characterization, and simulation-based inference for core-collapse supernova gravitational-wave signals.

    • Contributed to the polarization analysis in GWTC-4.0 testing general relativity paper.
    • Contributed to likelihood formulations for correlated detector noise in future gravitational-wave observatories.
    • Worked on null-stream methods for detector characterization and calibration in the Einstein Telescope.
    • Contributed to open-source scientific software and reproducible research workflows.
  2. 2023-08 – 2024-01

    Junior Research Assistant

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Hong Kong, China

    Worked on the noise correlation problems in Einstein Telescope.

    • Contributed to early-stage research projects later developed into peer-reviewed publications.
  3. 2018-08 – 2023-07

    PhD Researcher

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Hong Kong, China

    Conducted research in gravitational-wave astronomy, Bayesian inference, and detector data analysis during doctoral studies.

    • Worked on gravitational-wave parameter estimation and detector noise characterization.
    • Developed statistical methods for testing gravitational-wave polarizations.
    • Performed analyses using real data from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaborations.
    • Built computational pipelines for unmodeled searches of extra gravitational-wave polarizations.

Education

  1. 2018 – 2023

    PhD in Physics

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Hong Kong, China

    Supervisor: Prof. Tjonnie G. F. Li

    Thesis: Inferring Physics from Gravitational Waves: Probing Gravitational-wave Polarizations and Topics in Gravitational-wave Data Analysis

  2. 2014 – 2018

    BSc in Physics

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Hong Kong, China