Postdoc fellow at the National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology (NITMB).
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Research Interests
I am generally interested in emergent properties arising from the interplay between nonlinearity and stochasticity in complex, out-of-equilibrium systems. I am especially interested in biological neuronal networks, ecologies, and turbulence.
Neuronal networks
- How do multi-cluster structures affect the variability and functional dynamics of neuronal networks?
- What mechanisms underlie the formation of dynamical patterns, such as traveling waves, in neuronal networks, and how do these patterns impact network behavior?
- What is the guiding principle of biological networks that is consistent with non-equilibrium statistical mechanics?
Ecology
- How does explicit energy flux influence the dynamics and stability of ecological systems?
- What role does demographic stochasticity play in shaping the behavior of ecological systems?
Turbulence
- How can a Landau-type model be constructed to describe the laminar-turbulence transition in wall-bounded shear flows, which exhibit a continuous phase transition in the directed percolation universality class?
- How do energy flux, stochasticity, and nonlinearity interact to produce the characteristic laminar-turbulence patterns observed in many wall-bounded shear flows?
- Why is the experimental observation of critical scaling in wall-bounded shear flows more accessible compared to other systems within the same universality class?
Experience
**National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology (NITMB)**
Independent postdoc fellow
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
*Doctor of Philosophy* in Physics
**Research advisor:** Professor Nigel Goldenfeld
**Thesis:** Dynamics of stochastic spatial-temporal patterns in turbulence and biological systems far from equilibrium
Tongji University
*Bachelor of Science* in Applied Physics
Outstanding Graduates
Sep 2024 - present
Aug 2017 - Aug 2024
Sep 2013 - Jun 2017