CV

Experience

Research Scientist Intern — Adobe Research

May 2026 – present · with Tong Sun and Jiuxiang Gu

• PhyReAct — agentic physical reasoning for video evaluation. Core contributor; technical report in preparation.
• Project Still Life — executable physics from static documents. Core contributor.

Graduate Research Assistant — Carnegie Mellon University

October 2022 – present · Department of Mechanical Engineering · advised by Christopher McComb and Noelia Grande Gutiérrez

• Engineering super-resolution for Autonomous Digital Design — parameterized CFD dataset of 100,000+ simulations; generalizable super-resolution holding under 5% error in key flow quantities; deployed in Eaton’s jet engine duct system design workflow.
• Domain decomposition for large-scale physics-informed learning — first ML method scaling PINNs past 3 million physical elements; spectrum encoding for measuring domain shift across physics regimes; deployed to metal additive manufacturing and cardiovascular simulation.
• Graph neural operator super-resolution for vascular hemodynamics — discrete TEECNet formulation predicting high-resolution velocity fields and wall shear stress on unstructured vascular meshes, including the 4D flow MRI clinical arm.

Collaborations: Eaton Research Labs, U.S. Army ERDC, Manufacturing Futures Institute.

Undergraduate Research Assistant — Shanghai Jiao Tong University

April 2019 – June 2022 · combustion diagnostics and computational mechanics

• High-speed photography of turbulent flame dynamics with ML flame-front prediction reaching 89% accuracy. Center for Combustion and Environmental Technology, with Prof. Lei Zhu.
• FEM analysis of ultrasonic wave propagation in composite materials, during a three-month research internship at the Laboratoire d’Acoustique de l’Université du Mans (LAUM), Le Mans Université, January – March 2021, with Prof. Vitali Goussev.

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant, 24-261 Mechanics I (undergraduate) — Carnegie Mellon University, Fall 2024
• Teaching Assistant, 24-718 Computational Fluid Dynamics (graduate) — Carnegie Mellon University, Fall 2023
• Teaching Assistant, Chassis and Powertrain Design for Automobiles (undergraduate) — Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Spring 2021

Awards and honors

• Milton Shaw Ph.D. Research Award, Carnegie Mellon University — 2023
  Awarded for excellence in mechanical engineering research.
• Graduate with Honors, Shanghai Jiao Tong University — 2022
  Graduated with distinction from the School of Mechanical Engineering.
• Second Prize, Formula Student China — 2022
  Member of the SJTU racing team that designed and built a formula-style race car.
• Distinguished Conference Paper, SAECCE (Society of Automotive Engineers of China – Congress and Exhibition) — 2020
  Recognized for outstanding contribution to automotive engineering research.
• Merit-based scholarships, Shanghai Jiao Tong University — 2018–2022
  Multiple merit-based scholarships throughout undergraduate studies.

Professional service

Peer reviewer — IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics · Journal of Mechanical Design

Memberships — Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) · American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) · American Physical Society (APS) · American Heart Association (AHA)

Technical skills

Machine learning — vision–language models and agentic LLM systems · diffusion-based video generation · neural operators · graph neural networks · physics-informed neural networks · deep learning for scientific computing

Computational methods — custom numerical solvers for flow simulation · finite element method (FEM) implementation · computational fluid dynamics · turbulence modeling

High-performance computing — parallel GPU programming · Bridges-2, TRACE and other supercomputing clusters · large-scale data processing · distributed computing

Software — Python · C++ · MATLAB · PyTorch · FEniCS · MuJoCo · ANSYS · COMSOL Multiphysics · SolidWorks · CATIA · Git

Education

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering — Carnegie Mellon University, expected May 2027. Advised by Christopher McComb and Noelia Grande Gutiérrez.
• M.S., Mechanical Engineering — Carnegie Mellon University, August 2024. Earned en route to the Ph.D.
• B.Eng., Mechanical Engineering & B.A., German — Shanghai Jiao Tong University, June 2022. Dual-degree program.