CV
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Education
- Ph.D in Physics, University of Southern California, 2025 (expected)
- B.S. in Astronomy, Xiamen University, China, 2018
Research Experience
- Graduate Student Research Assistant at Applied Computing for Scientific Discovery group with Bert de Jong, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 05/2023-
- Research Assistant at Prof. Todd Brun’s group, University of Southern California, 04/2022-
Teaching Experience
- Teaching assistant of PHYS513 Applications of Quantum Computing. Instructor: Prof. Rosa Di Felice
- Guest Lecture (70 minutes) on 02/23/2023: Introduction to Error Mitigation with Examples
Pre-Quantum Research
Before I started my research on quantum computation on 2022/04, I worked on X-ray astronomy at Taotao Fang’s group when I was undergraduate student. After admitted by USC, I joined Vera Gluscevic’s group and studied the properties of dark matter via Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) era. I also worked with Mathew Madhavacheril on handling Cosmic Microwave background data from Planck and galaxy distribution data from Dark Matter Survey.
In 2018-2019, I visited Yi-fu Cai’s group and studied cosmology.
I also visited University of California, Irvine from 2019/08 to 2019/11 and worked on detection of dark matter in the Milky Way with Kevork Abazajian and Mauro Valli.
- D. Zhong, M. Valli, and K. N. Abazajian, “Near to long-term forecasts in x-ray and gamma-ray bands: Are we entering the era of dark matter astronomy?”, Phys. Rev. D 102, 083008. [arXiv]