I am an Assistant Research Professor at Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona. Prior to my current employment, I was a NASA Hubble Fellow at Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona. Before moving to Tucson, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Physics Department of University of California, Santa Barbara and was working in the ENIGMA group led by Prof. Joseph F. Hennawi. I received my Ph.D. (mentored by Prof. Xiaohui Fan and Prof. Xue-Bing Wu) in 2017 from Peking University, with one year at the University of Arizona.

News:
• Mar/2024: Two of our JWST large programs are approved for Cycle 3 observations (program IDs: 5893 and 6434)
• Mar/2024: My student's first-ever JWST program is approved for Cycle 3 observations (program ID: 5221, congratulations to Maria!)
• May/2023: One of our JWST medium-size programs is approved for Cycle 2 observations (GO: 3325)
• Jul/2022: Our ALMA large program (100 hours) was approved for Cycle 9 observations (2022.1.01077.L)
• Jul/2021: Our Chandra large program (900ks) was approved for Cycle 23 observations (GO: 23700397)
• Jul/2021: Our 66-orbits HST program was approved for Cycle 29 observations (GO: 16665)
• Mar/2021: Seven of our JWST programs are approved for Cycle 1 observations (GO: 1554, 1764, 1967, 2028, 2073, 2078, 2249)
Press Releases:
• Jun/2023: NASA's Webb Identifies the Earliest Strands of the Cosmic Web
• Jan/2021: The earliest supermassive black hole in the universe
• Jun/2020: Our newly discovered monster black hole was awarded a Hawaiian name
• Jan/2019: The discovery of a distant gravitationally lensed quasar
• Dec/2017: The most distant quasar in the Universe discovered
• Feb/2015: Monster black hole discovered at cosmic dawn
Selected Media Coverage:
Altmetric, BBC, CBS News, CNN, Discover, EarthSky, National Geographic, Nature, Science, Science Daily, Science News, USA Today, SciTech Daily
Image credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva