Timeline

I gave a talk at the UMass CS Theory Seminar with a colleague of mine (Kyle Doney) about candidate indistinguishability obfuscators. Here is the abstract of the talk.

I gave a talk at the UMass Geometric Analysis Reading Seminar about the Dorfmeister-Pedit-Wu (DPW) construction of minimal surfaces!

I started working with Professor Adam O'Neill on Multi-Input Functional Encryption (MIFE) based privacy-preserving contact tracing.

I gave a short talk at the UMass Geometric Analysis Reading Seminar in May 7th on the recent progress in the embedded Calabi-Yau conjecture, by Colding-Minicozzi and Meeks-Perez-Ros! Here are my notes.

Based on what I learned during my senior research, I spoked at the UMass CS Theory Seminar in April 29th with a colleague of mine (Wenbo Xie) on parallel algorithm-based differential equation solvers! Here is the abstract of the talk and Here are the lecture slides.

My senior thesis is approved! My abstract is available here. This also means that I am no longer an undergrad student. I will be spending another 1.5 years around Amherst, working on my M.S. in Computer Science!

Happy to announce that I just made my very first publication with the people I met during the ERAU REU! Our paper is accepted to the 2019 IEEE ICII, all thanks to my amazing collaborators!

I spent my whole summer at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University with a group of awesome people doing NSF-REU@ERAU! My advisor was Professor Jiawei Yuan.

I started my senior research/thesis under Professor Panos Kevrekidis and Stathis Charalampidis on extreme waves from the irregular burstings in superfluid 3-He/4-HE!

Effective immediately (from 10 A.M.), Jimmy is now a proud citizen of the United States of America! (Oath of Allegiance)

I was selected for Math 300 UGTA by the math department with a colleague of mine Patrick Lei!

I was invited to give a talk about Weierstrass product in Professor William Meeks's Math 421 (Undergrad) Complex analysis class!

I did an independent study in minimal and constant-mean-curvature (CMC) surfaces under Professor William Meeks. It was mainly on understanding the first few chapters of his book. We did also spend a lot of time reading recent papers/surveys and talking about geometric analysis in general (e.g. Ricci flow).

After taking Math 563H Differential Geometry and studying Ergodic theory during my REU with Professor Yao Li, I decided to study pure mathematics. However, it doesn't mean I am no longer interested in applied mathematics and computer science!

I was again around Amherst, MA for UMass Math REU. I studied Ergodic theory and statistical physics under Professor Yao Li!

I am now also a part of CICS! I was admitted to the computer science major. I plan to double major (or dual degree) math and computer science.

I was lucky enough be a REU participant in my freshman year. I was at UMass Math REU over the summer studying combinatorial representation theory under Professor Alexei Oblomkov!

I had decided to start taking upper-level math major courses. I am the only freshman in those classes. Let's see how it goes.

Here I go, I am now an adult - a college student! I plan to study applied/computational mathematics, and possibly physics, at UMass Amherst. I don't think I will continue pre-med.

I was at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2014) at COEX Center, Seoul, South Korea. My long journey as a future mathematician had begun!