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

  • 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

  • Private synthetic data
    FOCM 2023, Computational Harmonic Analysis and Data Science, 16 June 2023

  • 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)