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UChicago-Taiwan Student Exchange (UCTS) Fellowship

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See Facebook post prepared by NTU OIA here
See photos of 2024 UCTS fellows from Taiwan
06/10/2024 Departure in Taoyuan Airport (Luke, Bo-Yu, Vincent )  
06/14/2024 Deep Dishes Pizza (Sydney, Jerry, Bo-Yu, Vincent, Jody, Shou-Ting, Polly, Yi-Hsien, Chun-Hao To, Luke, Yen-Chieh)  
06/15/2024 Bo-Yu's first weekend: Picnic at the Promontory Point, Millennium Park, Coffee Time on the Roof of Starbucks Reserve Roastery, Millennium Park Concert  
06/16/2024 Mu-Chen Arrive ORD Airport (Cheng, Mu-Chen)  
06/17/2024 Dinner @ Noodles Etc (Mu-Chen, Bo-Yu)  
06/22/2024 2024 Dragon Boat Race for Literacy @ Ping Tom Park: Lunch after races (Luke, Bo-Yu), Chicago Taiwanese team photo, Dragon boat race, Bernien lab picnic @ Ping Tom Park (Vikram, Bo-Yu, Nikhil), Race results (first place in our final group!)  
06/22/2024 Visit Field museum (Chi, Ting-An, Li-Yu, Vincent, Yen-Chieh, Wei-Po, Mu-Chen)  
07/02/2024 Bo-Yu's poster presentation  
07/05/2024 Lunch @ ROUX (Ting-An, Li-Yu, Austin, Cheng, Vincent, Luke, Mu-Chen, Bo-Yu, Wei-Po)  
07/06/2024 Study quantum with cat (cat in the Renee commons, Bo-Yu's laptop)  
07/08/2024

Lunch meeting at TECO (Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Chicago)! Official Facebook post

Photos: Discussion with director Lei, Check-in TECO (Bo-Yu, Cheng, Wei-Po), (Austin, Vincent, Yen-Chieh, Mu-Chen), Group photo, Congrats Cheng to be elected as new Academician of Academia Sinica!, New Diplomat!? (Kelly, Lillian, Polly) (Cheng, Lillian, Polly, Dr. Tsai, Kelly)

 
07/13/2024 SMART outreach program: Northwestern Dearborn Observatory (Luke, Bo-Yu), visit Adler planetarium, happy bus  
07/18/2024 A tour of the University of Chicago Hospital cyclotron facility led by Program Director Richard. Special thanks to Professor Chien-Min Kao for organizing this amazing tour! (Left to right: Polly, Vincent, Richard, Mu-Chen, Austin), (Left to right: Austin, Mu-Chen, Richard, Vincent, Polly)  
07/20/2024 BBQ party with Hsu's and Chin's groups at the Promontory Point  
07/27/2024 Quantum Park Adventure! (Cheng, passion anonymous resident, Bo-Yu, Vincent), (Vincent, Bo-Yu, Annabelle, Cheng), Climbing, Cave Adventure Pioneers (Bo-Yu, Cheng)  
08/01/2024 Farewell party for Austin Tsai  
08/02/2024 Luncheon with Peter Littlewood  
08/05/2024 Chicago Cubs v.s. Minnesota Twins (Austin, Bo-Yu)  
08/06/2024 UChicago dorm room  
08/18/2024 Wolff's flea market in Rosemont and more  
08/19/2024 Dr. Chang (NCKU) visited Kelly and Lillian and Kelly's lab, Rise of the Super Blue Moon  
08/23/2024 Final presentation: Vincent, Polly, Bo-Yu, Lillian, Kelly, Mu-Chen, Wei-Po, Yen-Chieh, Luke, Austin, 2024 fellows group photo, Prof. Sibener, Kelly and her labmates)  
09/07/2024 Lillian and Kelly meeting NCKU Alumni in Chicago  
09/11/2024 Breakfast @ ROUX (Chi, Wei-Po, Bo-Yu, Cheng, Ting-An, Li-Yu)  
09/19/2024 NTU OIA outreach @ NTU freshman forum: Bo-Yu's talk, Prof. Lin-Chi Chen and Bo-Yu, Prof. Jiun-Haw Lee and Bo-Yu  
10/05/2024 Young-Kee with 2024 UCTS fellows (Vincent, Polly, Bo-Yu, Young-Kee, Wei-Po, Yen-Chieh, Ying-Jer Kao)  
11/06/2024 NTU Center for Bilingual Education outreach: flyer of Bo-Yu's talk   
See photos from 2024 UCTS fellows from UChicago
06/18/2024 NTU Orientation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Physics Dept Orientation  
06/27/2024 Fun in Taiwan: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12  
07/04/2024 Sebastian Jimenez's research in Dr. Lu's group: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5  
07/13/2024

Ingrid Appen's research in Dr. Tung's group: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Ingrid Appen's Day in Taiwan 

 
07/16/2024 Jay Shen's computation work in Dr. Kao's group: 1, 2  
07/16/2024 Julie Pichonnat's work in Dr. Chuang's group: 1  
07/18/2024 Duc Nguyen's work in Dr. Chiang's group: 1, 2  
07/30/2024 Evelyn Voss's work in Dr. Huang's group: 1  
07/31/2024 Dinner with UCTS students: 1, 2  
08/09/2024 Dinner with Austin Tsai: 1  
08/14/2024 Presentation Preparation: 1, 2  
08/15/2024

Final Presentations: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Sebastian, Evelyn, Jay, Julie, Ingrid, Alexandra, Duc, Pei-Hsiang

 

List of 2024 UCTS fellows from Taiwan

Photo

Name

Affiliation

Contact

Research Field Advisor Grad student mentor

Bo-Yu Chen

NTU Physics (Class of 2027)

Chenboyu@uchicago.edu

Personal Website

Atomic physics, Quantum information


 

Hannes Bernien Nikhil Harle

Ting-An Wang

NTU Physics (Class of 2026)

pollywang0207@gmail.com

Atomic physics, Quantum information Cheng Chin  

Vincent Chen

NTU Physics (Class of 2026)

vincentchen04828@gmail.com

Molecular Physics, AMO David DeMille  

Yen-Chieh Wang

NTU Physics (Class of 2025)

yenchieh@uchicago.edu

Theoretical high energy physics LianTao Wang  

Feng-Yin Cheng

NTU Physics (Class of 2024)

Luke091x@gmail.com

High energy physics Austin Joyce  

Wei-Po Wang

NTU Physics (Class of 2024)

Weber0205@gmail.com

Personal Website

Experimental particle physics Abigail Vieregg Philipp Windschhofer

Austin Yowming Tsai

NTU Medicine (Class of 2024)

aytsai@uchicago.edu

Personal Website

My project is about understanding cell fate in gastruloid, a three dimensional aggregates of embryonic stem cells that resembles in vivo conditions. We are currently analyzing the relationship between nucleus shape and cell differentiation and hopefully could train a machine learning model that could predict cell fate. Margaret Gardel Amanda Johnson

Mu-Chen Hsieh

NTHU Physics (Class of 2026)

Astrophysics Hsiao-Wen Chen  

Li-Yu Tang

NCKU Materials Science and Engineering (Class of 2025)

liliantang169@uchicago.edu 

The focus of my study is remote electrochemical epitaxy. High-quality, single-crystal Cu2O thin films, with defined in-plane and out of plane registry, are grown using liquid-phase epitaxy on two-dimensional (2D) materials. We exploit the concept of remote epitaxy and electrochemically demonstrate epitaxial growth of Cu2O(111) on Si(111) substrates through monolayer graphene. Po-Chun Hsu Ching-Tai, Fu

Chi Wang

NCKU Materials Science and Engineering (Class of 2025)

soundofchi@gmail.com

Material science Steven Sibener  Van Do
         

 

List of 2024 UCTS fellows from UChicago

Photo

Name

Affiliation

Contact

Research Field Advisor Personal information
Sebastian Jimenez Examination of polarization sensitive 2D plasmonic phototransistors using a TiN gate metal.
 

呂宥蓉 Yu-Jung Lu

Associate Professor of Physics, NTU

 

 

Jay Shen

Using machine learning to learn the renormalization group.

高英哲 Ying-Jer Kao

Professor of Physics, NTU

 

Pei-Hsiang Tien 田沛翔

Scrutinizing the dynamical friction of supermassive black holes in an FDM soliton

薛熙于 Hsi-Yu Schive

Associate Professor of Physics, NTU

 
Julie Pichonnat 潘若林

Seismic hazard assessment

Her message: My research is going well, and I'm learning a lot! The people in my lab are really nice and knowledgeable. I'm working on estimating strain rates using GNSS velocity data for the Taiwan Earthquake Model and other seismic hazard risk assessment purposes. So far I've been modeling a new Japanese research method for computing strain rate and trying to apply the method to Taiwan. I attached a photo of some of the preliminary results. It's a map of Taiwan in QGIS with the interpolated velocity calculated with the new method overlayed with the GNSS velocity observation data (pretty similar!) I'm not sure if you would like a more in-depth work progress update, but just let me know. 

莊昀叡 Ray Chuang

Associate Professor of Geography, NTU

 
Alexandra Yao High energy physics

陳丕燊 Pisin Chen

Distinguished Chair Professor of Physics, NTU

 
Evelyn Voss 楊芷薇 My project is focused on expanding 0-stage to n-stage quantum transduction. This technology is still in the theory stage, so my work will comprise of making mathematical models for quantum transduction, which will allow us to transfer quantum information between different types of media.

王喬萱 Chiao-Hsuan Wang

Assistant Professor of Physics, NTU

 
Ingrid Shih Appen 张世敏 Soil carbon sequestration via MICP

童心欣 Hsin-hsin Tung 

Professor, Institute of Environmental Engineering, NTU

 

Duc Manh Nguyen 阮孟德

Deep learning for particle physics colliders, training a neural network to distinguish signal from background

蔣正偉 Cheng-Wei Chiang

Professor of Physics, NTU