Research Interests

• Cosmology, large-scale structure, and galaxy clustering
  
• Galaxy formation and evolution, Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies
  
• Radiative transfer of Lyman-alpha photons and applications in astrophysics
• Gravitational lensing
  
• Broad research interests in other fields of astrophysics

Education

• Ph.D., 2004, Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University
• M.S., 1999, Beijing Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
• B.S., 1996, Department of Geophysics, Peking University, Beijing, China

Experience

• Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Utah, 2021 -
• Associate Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Utah, 2015 - 2021
• Assistant Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Utah, 2011 - 2015
• YCAA Prize Fellow, Yale University, 2009 - 2011
• Long-Term Member / John N. Bahcall Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 2008 - 2009
• Member / Hubble Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 2004 - 2007

Honors and Awards

• YCAA Prize Fellowship, Yale University, 2009 - 2011
• John N. Bahcall Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton, 2008 - 2009
• Hubble Fellowship (STScI, NASA), Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton, 2004-2007
  
• Presidential Fellowship, Ohio State University, 2003
  
• Presidential Fellowship, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1999
  
• Liu Yongling Scholarship, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1999
  
• Honor Graduate, Peking University, 1996
  
• Baogang Scholarship for Excellent Student, Peking University, 1995
  

Miscellaneous

• Referee for ApJ, ApJL, MNRAS, A&A, New Astronomy, Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, ApSS, JCAP, JKAS, and SCPMA
  
• NSF and NASA Proposal Reviewer
  
• Member of the American Astronomical Society
• LAMOST-PLUS Collaboration member (2008 - current)
• SDSS Collaboration Council member (Institute for Advanced Study representative, 2006-2008)
• SDSS-III Collaboration Council member (University of Utah representative, 2013 -2015)
• SOC Co-chair of the international workshop "Halo and Galaxy Assembly Bias - from Theory to Observation" (June, 2019)
• SOC Co-chair of the international conference "Studying the Universe with GAlaxy suRveys: Revealing the Unlimited in ShangHai (SUGAR-RUSH)" (June, 2018)
• SOC Co-chair of the 2018 Tokyo Spring Cosmic Lyman-alpha Workshop (Sakura CLAW) (March, 2018)
• SOC and LOC chair of SnowPAC 2017 "The Snowbird Cosmic Lyman-Alpha Workshop (SnowCLAW)" (March, 2017)
• Co-chair of SDSS-IV eBOSS Galaxy Science Working Group (2013 - 2015)
• Co-chair of SnowPAC 2012 workshop on "Gravitational Lensing in the Age of Survey Science" (Snowbird, UT, March 2012)
• Initiator and Co-organizer of AstroCoffee Discussion at the University of Utah (2011 -); now at benty-fields
• Co-organizer of CCAPP workshop on Lyman-alpha Emitters (April, 2010)
• Co-organizer of Astro-Lunch Discussion at Yale University (2009 - )
• Co-organizer of Cosmology Seminar at Yale University (2010 - )
• Co-organizer of Astrophysics Colloquium at the Institute for Advanced Study (Fall 2007, Spring 2008)
• Co-organizer of Astrophysics Seminar Series at the Institute for Advanced Study (2006)
• Co-organizer of Princeton-IAS Postdoc Astrophysics Seminars (Fall 2007)