CV

Postdoc Scholar

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

PhD

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Department of Physics

B.S.c

Peking University, Beijing, China

School of Physics

Cecil and Sally Drinkward Postdoctoral Fellowship

Student paper award

Engineering Mechanics Institute

E.A. Boldt (1953) Fellowship

MIT

May 4th Award

Peking University

1st Prize, Linbridge Prize for Excellent Undergraduate Research in Astrophysics

Peking University

Mingde Fellowship

Peking University

Anti-infection fluidic channel

US Patent App. 19/005,983

US 12,128,189 B2

US 12,220,539 В

Hydrodynamic interactions destroy motility-induced phase separation

submitted to Physical Review Letters

Revealing physical mechanisms of collision-induced dipoles that destroy MIPS and settle the decade-long debate. Proposes a possible approach to restore MIPS in microfluidics.

Reviving the suspension balance model

submitted to Physical Review Fluids

Shows the proper partition of non-pairwise hydrodynamic interactions in formulation of constitutive relations and revive the confidence in the community to continue use of the suspension balance model.

Revisiting some low Reynolds number resistance functions between two unequal spheres

submitted to Journal of Fluid Mechanics Rapids

Resolves discrepancy in different resistance functions by construction of auxiliary lubrication problems and call for caution in lubrication analysis relying directly on the pressure field.

Image charge effects under metal and dielectric boundary conditions

Physical Review E

Compares image-charge effects for metal vs dielectric boundaries using a renormalized Gaussian-fluctuation theory; predicts like-charge attraction in both cases.

AI-aided geometric design of anti-infection catheters

Science Advances

Introduces a catheter geometry that suppresses upstream bacterial contamination by up to two orders of magnitude.

Active doping controls the mode of failure in dense colloidal gels

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

Shows how the swim force of embedded active particles tunes brittle–ductile failure in dense colloidal gels.

Turbulent Transport of Dust Particles in Protostellar Disks: The Effect of Upstream Diffusion

The Astrophysical Journal

Demonstrates that turbulence-driven diffusion can transport dust outward in protostellar disks, helping explain observed distributions of refractory grains.

Theory of freezing point depression in charged porous media

Physical Review E

Develops a self-consistent theory for freezing in charged porous media, distinguishing regimes with ion trapping vs free ions.

Distribution and pressure of active Lévy swimmers under confinement

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

Derives fractional laplacian operator for Levy walks in finite space. Derives density profiles and wall pressures for Levy swimmers in confinement.

Freezing point depression and freeze–thaw damage by nanofluidic salt trapping

Physical Review Fluids

Proposes nanofluidic salt trapping as a mechanism for supercooling and freeze–thaw damage in charged porous materials. First self-consistent theory for freeze-thaw damage in cement.

Capillary Stress and Structural Relaxation in Moist Granular Materials

Langmuir

Presents a numerical and theoretical framework to compute capillary stresses and moisture-driven structural relaxation in nanogranular materials (e.g., cement paste), explaining hysteretic sorption and shrinkage.

Multiscale poromechanics of wet cement paste

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

Links capillary stresses to deformation across nano- to microscale to explain moisture-driven mechanics in cement paste.

ChE/Ch/MS 113 Squishy Engineering: Using Soft Materials to Solve Hard Problems

Caltech

Spring 2025

Guest Lecturer

8-286 The Early Universe

MIT

Fall 2013

Teaching Assistant

Astronomy

PKU

Summer 2010

Teaching Assistant