I am a second-year PhD student in the Department of Astronomy at Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Song Huang [黄崧], Prof. Yuan-sen Ting [丁源森] and Prof. Zheng Cai [蔡峥].

Why Astronomy?

As an ancient foundational science, astronomy has repeatedly overturned humanity’s understanding of the Universe. In today’s stagnation of fundamental scientific theory, the philosophy and poetry intrinsic to astronomy itself will once again revolutionize the entire scientific system. Thus, I view my research in astronomy as a romantic adventure to understand the soul of the world.

Why Data Science?

Data science based on probability theory provides a unique perspective for human understanding of the world. Under this perspective, many complex phenomena can be unified into elegant mathematical frameworks. The secrets hidden in high-dimensional data that were previously incomprehensible to humans are gradually being revealed with technological advances. Combining the data science perspective with the traditional physics perspective to understand the world is aesthetically and poetically compelling. At the same time, the explosive growth of data volume and computing power in the big data era provides the hardware foundation for the thriving development of data science. With the dual support of macro methodology and objective reality, combining astronomy and data science will surely provide humanity with a brand new path on understanding the universe.