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Work Experience

• 2023-, Assistant Professor
  • University of Virginia
• 2021-2023, 51 Pegasi b Fellow
  • University of Texas at Austin
• 2019-2021, Harlan J. Smith McDonald Observatory Postdoc Fellow
  • The Unversity of Texas at Austin/McDonald Observatory

Education

• Ph.D in Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Arizona, 2019
• B.S. in Astronomy, Peking University, 2014

Service and Leadership

• 2020 NASA FINESST Fellowship Reviewer
• HST Proposal Reviewer (Cycles 27, 29, 30)
• Referee for AAS Journals, A&A, MNRAS, Nature Astronomy
• Graduate admission committee (University of Arizona, UT Austin)

Awards

• 2021–2023, 51 Pegasi b Fellow
• 2019–2021, Harlan J. Smith Fellow
• 2015–2018, NESSF fellowship NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
• 2015–2016, TRIF Fellowship
• 09/2013 First Lin-Qiao Prize for Excellent Undergraduate Research Projects in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University & KIAA

Funded projects (as PIs)

• JWST Cycle 2 (GO-03181)
  Monitor a variable planetary mass companion with NIRSpec IFU

• JWST Cycle 2 (GO-03375)
  Dancing 1 - 14 micron spectra to solve the cloudy and chemical puzzle of brown dwarf variability (co-PI)

• HST Cycle 30 (GO-17280)
  Validating and Characterizing the Protoplanet Candidate AB Aur b with WFC3/UVIS UV and Optical Photometry

• HST Cycle 30 (GO-17168) Confirming the Protoplanet Candidate AB Aur b with Accretion Light Echoes (co-PI)

• HST Cycle 29 (GO16651), A Search for Accreting Protoplanets within Transition Disk Gaps

• HST Cycle 27 (GO16036), Mapping Clouds on a Variable Planetary-Mass Companion

• HST Cycle 27 (GO15830), A Planet is Born: Investigating the Accretion Process of PDS70b with WFC3/UVIS Direct Imaging Observations

• HST Cycle 25 (AR15060), Unleashing the Charges: An Improved Reduction of Key Exoplanet Datasets and a Tool for Ramp Effect Correction

• Spitzer DDT program (14312), Rotational modulations of a highly variable planetary-mass companion

• NASA/Keck 2023B
  High-contrast imaging observations of substellar companions of an accelerating star

• NASA/Keck 2023B
  Characterizing the Atmosphere of a Benchmark T Dwarf Companion

• NASA/Keck 2021A, The Angular Momentum Archetecture of the VHS1256 Planetary System.