About Me

I am a tenure-track assistant professor at Auburn University. Prior to this role, I held a position as a visiting assistant professor at Emory University from 2019-2021, spanning four semesters. From 2018-2019, I was a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, for three semesters. Earlier in my career, I held the Black-Babcock visiting assistant professorship at the University of Kansas working closely with David Nualart and Yaozhong Hu, a role I fulfilled from 2015-2017 over the course of five semesters.

My academic journey began at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne – École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, where I obtained my Ph.D. in April 2013 under the supervision of Robert Dalang. Following this, I received an SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation) post-doctoral research fellowship in 2014, which allowed me to spend a year at the University of Utah working with Davar Khoshnevisan.

My research focus lies within the fields of analysis and probability, specifically working on stochastic analysis and stochastic partial differential equations.

Work experience

• Tenure-track assistant professor, Auburn University (08/2021 – present)

• Visiting assistant professor, Emory University (08/2019 – 08/2021)

• Tenure-track assistant professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (01/2018 [1] – 07/2019)

• Summer research fellow, MSRI, Berkeley (06/2017 – 08/2017)

• The Black-Babcock visiting assistant professor, University of Kansas (01/2015 – 07/2017)

• Swiss NSF research fellow [2], University of Utah (02/2014 – 12/2014)

• Research assistant, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (01/2008 – 12/2013)

• Researcher, IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland (07/2006 – 07/2007)

• Visiting scholar, Microsoft Research Asia, China (07/2005 – 07/2006)

[1]

This appointment was postponed for one semester from 08/2017 to 01/2018 due to a visa issue.

[2]

Swiss National Science Foundation (P2ELP2_151796).

Education

• Ph.D. in Mathematics, Lausanne, Switzerland

  • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (Apr. 2013)

  • Supervisor: Professor Robert C. Dalang

  • Theses

• Master in Computer Science and Engineering, Beijing, China

  • Tsinghua University (Jul. 2005)

• Bachelor in Computer Science and Engineering, Dalian, China

  • Dalian Jiaotong University (Jul. 2002)

CV

A comprehensive CV can be found here.