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Selected highlights
Neutron stars could reveal heavy dark matter
Our study proposes a new dark matter test using the rates of neutron star transients.
View in archive →Fading starlight could reveal axions
My invited Axion 2026 talk explores how magnetic white dwarfs could expose new physics through changing brightness.
View in archive →AxionDarkPhotonSimulator
Follow axions and dark photons through an expanding universe with my open-source Python simulator.
View in archive →Can dark matter give neutrinos mass? Experiments weigh in
Phys.org features our study testing the idea with neutrino oscillation experiments.
View in archive →Why is space three-dimensional?
An award-winning video brings my article on the dimensions of space to the screen.
View in archive →Shanghai’s Pujiang Program backs research with ¥300k
Research support through the Shanghai Magnolia Talent Plan Pujiang Program for 2025–2027.
View in archive →Archive
2026
13 items
Time-domain axion searches with magnetic white dwarfs
Exploring New Frontiers in CosmologyGalileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI)Florence, Italy
Notte d'estate: Canti da Napoli alla Cina
Piano performanceHotel Terme RosapepeContursi Terme, ItalyWith soprano Dr. Xia Liu, soprano Katerina Furstova, and physicist and pianist Massimo Blasone
Time-domain axion searches with magnetic white dwarfs
SeminarUniversity of SalernoFisciano, Italy
Time-domain axion searches with magnetic white dwarfs
Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics (BCTP)University of BonnBonn, Germany
Time-domain axion searches with magnetic white dwarfs
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)University of LisbonLisbon, Portugal
Magnetic white dwarfs as time-domain axion laboratories
1st Astro Postdoc SymposiumTsung-Dao Lee Institute (TDLI)Shanghai, ChinaInvited talk
Soliton mergers and radio transients: A new window on dark photon dark matter
4th Topics of Particle, Astro and Cosmo Frontiers (TOPAC)University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC)Chengdu, China
Soliton mergers and radio transients: A new window on dark photon dark matter
18th Symposium on Frontier Issues in the Interdisciplinary Field of Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and CosmologyGuilin, China
Demagnifying gravitational lenses reveal dark matter structures and modified gravity
Tsung-Dao Lee Institute (TDLI) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)
2025
23 items
Dark matter and nonminimal couplings to gravity: From gravitational lensing to gravitational waves
International Young Scholar ForumFuzhou UniversityFuzhou, China
Soliton mergers and radio transients: A new window on dark photon dark matter
ColloquiumUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC)Chengdu, China
Soliton mergers and radio transients: A new window on dark photon dark matter
Southwest UniversityChongqing, China
Dark matter and nonminimal couplings to gravity: From gravitational lensing to gravitational waves
Silk Road International SymposiumXi'an Jiaotong UniversityXi'an, China
Demagnifying gravitational lenses as probes of dark matter structures and nonminimal couplings to gravity
The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2026)Media coverage
Constraining dark photon dark matter with radio silence from soliton mergers around supermassive black holes
Postdoctoral Frontier Symposium in Physics and AstronomyTsung-Dao Lee Institute (TDLI)Shanghai, China
AxionDarkPhotonSimulator
Python packageAxion-dark-photon simulations in an expanding universe
Dark photon dark matter from flattened axion potentials
Journal of High Energy Physics (2025)
Neutrino experiments challenge a dark matter origin of neutrino mass
Tsung-Dao Lee Institute (TDLI) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)Featured on Phys.org
Ultralight dark matter: From small-scale structure to dynamic neutrino mass
Scuola Superiore MeridionaleUniversity of Naples Federico IINaples, Italy
Testing the dark origin of neutrino masses with oscillation experiments
Dark Matter 2025Santander, Spain
Testing the dark origin of neutrino masses with oscillation experiments
PLANCK 2025Padua, Italy
Testing the dark origin of neutrino masses with oscillation experiments
Dark Matter and NeutrinosInstitut Henri Poincaré (IHP)Paris, France
Enchanted by Shanghai nights: A concert of pop, jazz, and tango classics
Piano performanceShanghai, ChinaWith soprano Dr. Xia Liu
Testing the dark origin of neutrino masses with oscillation experiments
Physical Review Letters (2025)Media coverage
Fairy tales and wisdom: A salon of German and Austrian art songs
Piano performanceShanghai, ChinaWith soprano Dr. Xia Liu and pianist and tenor Yinhe Fang
Why is our space 3-dimensional?
Popular science videoSource article authorVideo received Bronze Award, ShanghaiTech University's 2024 Popular Science Works Competition
CPSF Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (CPSF)Funding not received because of incompatibility with other fellowships
CPSF General Program
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (CPSF)¥80k research support
Shanghai Magnolia Talent Plan Pujiang Program
Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (STCSM)¥300k research support
2024
9 items
Solitons in ultralight dark matter
Winter Mini-SymposiumTsung-Dao Lee Institute (TDLI)Shanghai, ChinaInvited talk
Nonminimally gravitating ultralight dark matter
Astronomy and Astrophysics SeminarFudan UniversityShanghai, China
Solitons in ultralight dark matter
SeminarUniversity of Science and Technology of China (USTC)Hefei, China
DMSolitonFinder
Mathematica packageAutomated computation of dark matter soliton profilesFeatured in Wolfram Community Staff Picks and Publication Materials
Unified view of scalar and vector dark matter solitons
Journal of High Energy Physics (2025)
Siyuan Postdoctoral Fellowship
Shanghai Jiao Tong University¥450k/year
2023
11 items
Probing ultralight dark fields in cosmological and astrophysical systems
PhD thesisRice University
Neutron star cooling with symmetry-violating axions
Theoretical Astroparticle and Cosmology Symposium (TACOS)Rice UniversityHouston, United States
Unveiling the nature of wave dark matter
Theory seminarHigh Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) Theory CenterTsukuba, JapanRemote
Phenomenology of wavelike vector dark matter nonminimally coupled to gravity
Phenomenology SymposiumUniversity of PittsburghPittsburgh, United States
Constraining axions from neutron star cooling
AU SeminarRice UniversityHouston, United States
The plum blossom on snow
Piano performanceKHG Köln–AulaCologne, GermanyWith soprano Xia Liu
Graduate Student Travel Award
Rice University
National Award for Outstanding Students Abroad
China Scholarship Council$6k
Top-three team in the EnTranCE Energy Case Competition
2023 EnTranCE Energy Case CompetitionTexas, United States20+ participating teams; $3k shared team prize
2022
7 items
Non-minimally coupled dark photon dark matter
AU SeminarRice UniversityHouston, United States
A singularity problem for interacting massive vectors
Theoretical Advanced Study Institute (TASI)University of Colorado BoulderBoulder, United StatesInvited talk
Dark photon substructure and formation of vector solitons
AU SeminarRice UniversityHouston, United States
Graduate Student Travel Award
Rice University
2021
6 items
Gravitational effects on oscillon lifetimes
COSMO'21University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)Champaign, United StatesRemote
Beyond Schrodinger-Poisson: Non-relativistic effective field theory for scalar dark matter
AU SeminarRice UniversityHouston, United States
Gravitational effects on oscillon lifetimes
Texas Section of the American Physical Society (TSAPS) ConferenceTexas A&M University-Corpus ChristiCorpus Christi, United StatesRemote
2020
5 items
Classical decay rates of oscillons
Texas Section of the American Physical Society (TSAPS) ConferenceUniversity of Texas at Arlington (UT Arlington)Arlington, United States
2019
1 items
Large-misalignment mechanism of fuzzy dark matter
AU SeminarRice UniversityHouston, United States
2018
1 items
Outstanding Graduate
Nanjing University
2017
2 items
IHEP Talent Scholarship
Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
National People’s Scholarship
Nanjing University
2016
2 items
National Encouragement Scholarship
Nanjing University
National People’s Scholarship
Nanjing University
2015
3 items
First Prize, Nanjing Intercollegiate Nunchaku Combat Competition
Nanjing Intercollegiate Nunchaku Alliance
National People’s Scholarship
Nanjing University
2008
1 items
First place, Youth China Piano Competition (Gansu Division)
Youth China Piano Competition