Employment
2022-present: Postdoctoral Fellow, ETH Zurich
2021-2022: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine
2019-2021: Assistant Adjunct Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
2016-2019: Hedrick Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
Education
2012-2016: Ph.D. in Mathematics, Texas A&M University
2011-2012: Visiting Scholar, Texas A&M University
2007-2011: B.Sc. and M.Phil in Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University
Funding
2019-2022: National Science Foundation, Standard Grant, DMS-1856221/DMS-2140592, USD 103,096 (Principal Investigator)
Fellowship and Award
2012-2016: N.W. Naugle Fellowship, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
2016: L.F. Guseman Prize, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
Selected seminar talks
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Sharp Matrix Concentration
Department Seminar, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University, 7 November 2022 -
Strong freeness of Gaussian matrices with correlated entries
Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, 7 June 2021 -
Spectral norms of Gaussian matrices with correlated entries
Probability Seminar, University of California, San Diego, 29 April 2021 -
Approximate similarity of operators on $\ell^{p}$
Analysis Seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology, 25 April 2018 -
Asymptotic moments of random Vandermonde matrix
Functional Analysis Seminar, University of California, Los Angeles, 6 January 2016
Selected conference talks
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Sharp Matrix Concentration
Simons Institute, Deep Learning Theory Symposium, 6 December 2021 -
Non-Commutative Concentration Inequalities (cont.)
Oberwolfach, Applied Harmonic Analysis and Data Science, 1 December 2021 -
$C^{*}$-algebras representable on $l^{p}$
Canadian Operator Symposium, Fields Institute, 28 May 2020 -
Brown-Douglas-Fillmore theorem for $\ell^{p}$
Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium, 28 May 2019 (Plenary Speaker) -
Brown-Douglas-Fillmore theory for operators on $\ell^{p}$
West Coast Operator Algebra Seminar, 7 October 2018