I
currently work on problems related to (or motivated by) the effort
to detect gravitational waves.
I did my Ph.D. at Caltech from 1999 to 2003 at Caltech,
under the supervision of Prof. Kip S.
Thorne. I graduated
from Peking University
(Beijing, China) in 1999;
my thesis advisor was Prof. Tan-sheng
Cheng (I also did
some research under Prof. Zheng-xiang
Gao).
Before re- joining Caltech in 2007, I worked as a postdoc (2004)
under the direction of Prof. Bernard F.
Schutz, and then
junior research group leader (2005-08, hosted by
Prof.
Schutz and
Prof.
Karsten Danzmann),
at the Max Planck Institute for
Gravitational Physics (also known as the Albert-Einstein
Institute, or the
AEI) in Golm, Germany. My AEI research group was supported by
the Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation, through
the Sofja Kovalevskaya
Award.
My current research at Caltech is supported by the
National
Science Foundation,
and by Dr. David Groce
(Caltech B.S. ‘58 and
Ph.D. ‘63) and Mrs. Barbara
Groce. I am
especially grateful to David and Barbara, who have been supporting
me since I was a graduate student.
