About Me

Education:
University of California Berkeley
Expected BA in Astrophysics and Computer Science

Research Interests:
I am most passionate about applying programming and data analysis skills to study astrophysics topics. I have a strong interest in star death, black holes, radio astronomy, and exoplanets. I am still exploring different fields in astrophysics.

Hobbies:
I enjoy bird watching! I love reading science fictions and all sorts of rich-plot books! I'm also a big fan of The Big Bang Theory.

Research

Twin-Body Asymmetric Flying-Wing Aircraft Project
The idea of combining twin-body aircraft, flying-wing structure, and asymmetric arrangement to carry out the air-monitoring task is proposed by me. I called it “Twin-body Asymmetric Flying-Wing Aircraft (TAFA)” and hoped to improve flight efficiency, endurance, and loading capacity of the UAV and solve the equipment’s’ interference problem. TAFA and the other three control group planes (normal aircraft, flying-wing aircraft, and twin-body symmetric Airplane) were designed, modeled. They were simulated by the vortex lattice method and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to get main aerodynamic data. Finally, I fabricated the TAFA plane model (as shown in the figure) and did a flight test to prove its feasibility. I eventually wrote a paper which is included by EI and ISTP. I also attended the 4th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation, and Applied Mathematics.
For more information about TAFA project, check out the PPT link: TAFA Project PPT!
Publication: CFD and VLM Simulation of the Novel Twin-Body Asymmetric Flying-Wing Aircraft

Exoplanet
An exoplanet is a planet outside of the solar system. Currently there are about 4800 exoplanets discovered through various methods, such as radial velocity, transit, astrometry, imaging, and microlensing. In this project, we are trying to discover and confirm an unknown exoplanet by looking and filtering over data from TESS and taking pictures of potential candidates. After selecting a candidate from looking through over 5000 data, we used Leuschner 30” Optical Telescope to observe two transits. We used AstroImageJ to deal with the observed pictures and plot the luminosity plot.

Community

Berkeley Physics Directed Reading Program (PDRP)：
- Read papers about simulation methods and using the exoplanet data to derive earlier universe formation with my mentor.
- Delivered a speech about exoplanets and application of data.

Undergraduate Astronomical Society (UAS)：
- Learn to use ground-based telescope to observe Jupiter, Saturn, Moon, M31, and the ring nebula.

Star Parties:
- Use telescopes to observe Jupiter and its 4 moons, Saturn, M42, M81, and the green comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF).

Cal Science Fiction Club:
- Read and discuss Science Fiction bi-weekly.
Dune, Three-body Problem, The Overstory