Brief Biographical Sketch:

I was born in Hong Kong and remained there until the age of 18. I received my elementary school education from CCC Kei Wan A.M. Primary School and my secondary school education from Diocesan Boys' School (http://www.dbs.edu.hk/). As a high school student, I participated in the Hong Kong Joint School Science Exhibition for two years. In my senior year, I was also responsible for the mathematics section of a summer school offered to incoming grade 7 students of my secondary school (note: In Hong Kong, middle school and high-school are joint. Thus, I was teaching incoming grade 7 students when I was in grade 12).

In 2001, I came to the U.S. and entered the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) as an undergraduate. When I was in Illinois, I was a frequent participant of the "Physics Van" outreach program (http://van.physics.illinois.edu/), where College students go to elementary schools to perform physics demonstrations for the students there. I received the "Undergraduate Outreach Achievement Award" from the Physics department for my contributions to that program. I was also the treasurer of the physics society at UIUC for two years. In 2005 I graduated from UIUC with a double degree in mathematics and physics, and was awarded the Ernest M. Lyman Prize (Outstanding Senior in Physics) and the H. Roy Brahana Prize (Outstanding Senior in Math). A webstream video of my performance at Physics Van can be found in http://streamer.cen.uiuc.edu/var/PhysicsVan.wmv (browse, e.g., to the 31st minute).

I entered MIT in 2005 as a graduate students in physics, specializing in condensed matter theory (CMT), during which I have been a teaching assistant for four semesters. The courses I TA includes 8.321 (Grad. Quantum Mechanics 1), 8.511 (Grad. Solid State Theory 1), and 8.512 (Grad. Solid State Theory 2). In general, I received a fairly high rating in student evaluation, with a score of 6.5 in Fall 2006 and 6.4 in Fall 2008 (both out of 7).

Past Classes