Beyond research

A few things I care about when I'm not in the lab.

• 🏀

  I love playing and watching basketball. I've been a fan of Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook since their Oklahoma City Thunder days.

• ♟️

  I'm a serious chess player — I started at age 7 and competed in municipal and national tournaments in elementary school, before stepping away after changing schools in middle school.

• 🏈

  I played flag football for almost three years in college — my first taste of American football.

• 🎮

  I enjoy playing and watching video games, especially competitive CS (I once met NiKo and got a photo with him in Dallas).

• 📖

  I minored in Chinese language and literature, and I love modern Chinese poetry. My favorite poet is Zhang Zao (张枣): “only when I think of life's regrets / do plum blossoms fall over the Southern Mountain” (只要想起一生中后悔的事 / 梅花便落满了南山).

• 🎸

  I'm into rock music of any kind — post-punk, hard rock, progressive rock. Some favorites: Joy Division, Led Zeppelin, Yes, and a number of Chinese bands.

• 📚

  I'm a fan of Japanese manga and anime, as well as DC comics.

• 🎵

  More recently I've gotten into K-pop, including NewJeans.