I was trained as a mathematician and theoretical physicist at Imperial College and Cambridge University. As a graduate student I worked on the swimming of sperm at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems.

Before coming to Toronto I was a Research Fellow in the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School.

I now have the world's best commute.

Graduate Student, Physics, UofT

I am from Beijing and completed my undergraduate at Nanjing University. I am currently working on the statistical properties of cyclo-stationary models. I am interested in using quantitative tools to regulate and engineer living systems. Out of working hours, I enjoy literature and music, especially polyphony on the keyboard. 

Graduated from UofT in Biological Physics and Mathematics. Former research assistant at Sunnybrook Research Institute in tomographic breast imaging. 

Currently, my scientific interests lie in quantitative approaches to understanding and engineering biological systems. In my PhD thesis I use tools from theoretical physics, applied mathematics, and computation to uncover fundamental performance limits in molecular regulatory systems in biological cells. In collaboration with experimentalists, I aim to demonstrate these limitations in real biological cells and establish novel design principles for the construction of biological circuits.

I also have a strong interest in pedagogical research for quantitative biology and biophysics education, as well as in undergraduate teaching itself.

I am from Fredericton, New Brunswick where I completed my undergraduate with a BA in Philosophy and a BSc in Biology-Physics with a minor in Mathematics. I am now a PhD student at the University of Toronto in the Hilfinger group where I am interested in developing multi-scale models of biological signal transduction pathways using stochastic fluctuations, leveraging our knowledge of modeling in physics in a biologically useful way. I am also interested in Physics Education Research, and the philosophy of Physics. When not doing Physics, you can find me reading German idealist philosophy or trying out a new sport which I am not very good at (currently badminton).