CV

Consultant -- Foundational Model

VINCI4D.ai

• Designing AI agentic workflows for high-fidelity data generation and training AI surrogate models toward physics-based foundational models
• Focused on EDA thermal analysis for chip manufacturing

CFD Consultant -- Digital Twin Platform

Claros Technologies

• Built end-to-end CFD digital twin for PFAS chemical reactor with parametric geometry, simulation, data generation, and optimization
• Integrated chemical kinetics into the solver and developed optimization algorithms for reactive flow design

Researcher

St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota

• Built an incompressible CFD solver with AMR, coupled level-set/VOF interface tracking, and cut-cell embedded boundaries on AMReX (26K lines of C++, 12 modules, 467 unit tests, 7 validated benchmarks)
• Ported lab’s Fortran HPC code to C++/CUDA multi-GPU; breaking wave case (2048x2048x1024): 1 month on 2048 CPUs to 2.5 days on 64 A100s to under 5 hours with mixed-precision Poisson solver; 40% memory reduction
• Developed hybrid quantum-classical framework (variational quantum circuits + physics-informed neural networks) for incompressible turbulence simulation
• Applied quantum tensor networks (MPS/MPO) for data compression and acceleration in Navier-Stokes simulations

Post-Doctoral Associate

St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota

• Developed coupled level-set/VOF interface tracking for two-phase and three-phase flows at high density ratios (>1000:1); applied to oil spill simulation in turbulent breaking waves (JCP 2023)
• Simulated COVID-19 airborne transmission in indoor environments; Featured Article in Physics of Fluids, covered by The Guardian
• Researched wind-wave-bathymetry interactions near the surf zone for amphibious vehicle performance
• Optimized hydro-turbine geometries using immersed boundary methods and large-eddy simulation

CFD Consultant -- Ocean Wave Digital Twin

Dynamic Dimension Technologies (DDT), LLC

• Built ocean wave modeling platform (shoaling, bathymetry, vehicle dynamics) with synthetic data generation for surrogate models

Visiting Scholar

University of Minnesota

• Developed in-house code for simulating multiphase turbulent flow with VOF, level set, and immersed boundary methods
• Researched turbulent cavitating flows interacting with ocean waves

Research Assistant

Peking University

• Built a compressible high-Mach-number multiphase solver from scratch (Fortran + MPI); applied to shock-multiphase-flow interactions for inertial confinement fusion (Physical Review E)
• Developed coupled level-set/VOF interface tracking in an incompressible flow solver; studied underwater cavitation drag reduction (Journal of Fluid Mechanics)
• Investigated Richtmyer-Meshkov instability and turbulent mixing

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering

Peking University

Fluid Mechanics

• Thesis: Characteristics and action mechanism of the structures in ventilated supercavity

B.S.

Peking University

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

• Thesis: Numerical investigation on heavy particle pair dispersion in the inertial range of two dimensional turbulence

Certificate of Quantum Excellence

IBM Qiskit Global Summer School on Quantum Machine Learning

Quantum Computing and Quantum Machine Learning

• Grade: 100/100