Timeline
2024
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May 2024I will be visiting NASA GSFC as a research intern again this summer!
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April 2024We placed 3rd and won the best poster award in this year's MITRE eCTF. Thank you b01lers for this opportunity and the great collaboration!
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April 2024I was selected as a 2024 Raymond Boyce Graduate Teacher Award recipient by my department!
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March 2024I presented both papers at AeroConf 2024 held at Big Sky, MT!
2023
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November 2023Both papers I wrote with my intern mentor and fellow interns are accepted to AeroConf 2024. Thank you all!
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October 2023I received Graduate Teaching Award from my department, for my achievement as a CS 426 (Computer Security) TA in Spring 2022. Thank you, Christina, for the nomination and all your support!
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July 2023I am honored to be selected as a 2023 John Mather Nobel Scholar. All my gratitude goes to my intern mentor at GSFC!
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July 2023The BPv7 paper I wrote with my CS 536 classmates based on our course project has been accepted to WiSEE 2023 conference!
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March 2023I will be visiting NASA GSFC again this summer working on network information theory and modeling/algorithms for Near Space Network (NSN)!
2022
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November 2022Happy to announce that both papers submitted to AeroConf 2023 are accepted, all thanks to my intern mentor and my colleagues I met at GSFC!
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November 2022I gave a short talk at our Theory reading seminar about (computational) leakage-resilience cryptography, based on the papers I read last semester with my advisor. Here are my slides.
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September 2022
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May 2022I feel too thankful and excited to find a way to precisely describe my feeling about this opportunity in words. I am instead leaving the hieroglypic representation of my summer plan here provided by them.
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February 2022
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January 2022I attended The 12th BIU Winter School on Cryptography online. This year's topic was in Secure Computation.
2021
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October 2021Started attending the virtual sections of the GCT 2022, School and Conference on Geometric Complexity Theory 2021-2022! Joined a bit late, so I hope I can catch up.
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June 2021Check out my final project Why is WiFi dangerous? for CS 590J Cyber Effects :)
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April 2021Excited to announce that I accepted my offer to the Computer Science Ph.D. program at Purdue University!
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February 2021Along with my regular classes at UMass, I will concurrently be taking Topics in Analytic number theory course offered at Budapest Semester in Mathematics (BSM)! I am quite excited, as UMass had never offered any graduate-level courses in analytic number theory.
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January 2021UMass Cryptography Group led by Professor Adam O'Neill is now running a seminar series, UMass Cryptography Seminar. I will be one of the co-organizers!
2020
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October 2020I 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.
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August 2020I gave a talk at the UMass Geometric Analysis Reading Seminar about the Dorfmeister-Pedit-Wu (DPW) construction of minimal surfaces!
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June 2020I started working with Professor Adam O'Neill on Multi-Input Functional Encryption (MIFE) based privacy-preserving contact tracing.
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May 2020I 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.
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April 2020Based 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.
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January 2020My senior thesis submission has been approved! My abstract is available here. This also means that I am no longer an undergrad. I will be spending another 1.5 years around Amherst, working on my M.S. in computer science!
2019
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September 2019Happy to announce that I just made my very first publication, with the people I met in ERAU REU! Our paper is accepted to 2019 ICII, all thanks to my amazing collaborators!
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Summer 2019I spent my whole summer at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Universitywith a group of awesome people doing NSF-REU@ERAU! My advisor was Professor Jiawei Yuan
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January 2019I 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!
2018
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September 27th, 2018Effective immediately (from 10 A.M.), Jimmy is now a proud citizen of the United States of America! (Oath of Allegiance)
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May 2018I was selected for Math 300 UGTA by the math department with a colleague of mine Patrick Lei!
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April 2018I was invited to give a talk about Weierstrass product in Professor William Meeks's Math 421 (Undergrad) Complex analysis class!
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Spring 2018I 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).
2017
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August 2017After 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!
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Summer 2017I was again around Amherst, MA for UMass Math REU. I studied Ergodic theory and statistical physics under Professor Yao Li!
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January 2017I 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.
2016
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Summer 2016I 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!
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January 2016I had decided to start taking upper-level math major courses. I am the only freshman in those classes. Let's see how it goes.
2015
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September 2015Here 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.
2014
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August 2014I was at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2014) at COEX Center, Seoul, South Korea. My long journey as a future mathematician had begun!