I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan. Most of my work is on the Lyα forest, dense absorbers, and the inference problems that come with them. I have also worked on emulation and black-hole population inference.

I did my PhD at UC Riverside with Simeon Bird, after studying physics and astrophysics at National Taiwan University. As an undergraduate, I also spent much of my time in the philosophy department. I pursued a philosophy minor for several years, although I never formally completed it, and for much of college I probably took philosophy more seriously than physics.

Outside physics, I play cello, brew coffee, cook, and make wagashi and Suzhou-style mooncakes. I also like hiking, road trips, and exploring America's natural landscapes.

Before graduate school, I also worked on text mining and digital editions of classical Chinese texts. I no longer work in philosophy, but it probably shaped how I think more than astronomy did. That training still shows up in how I do science. I tend to spend a lot of time on the assumptions behind a problem, on whether the question is framed correctly, and on things that are easy to leave unexamined.