Biography

I was born in Hong Kong, and received education there to a point where I got a Master degree in Mathematics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. I was particularly fortunate then to have met many inspiring and caring teachers, including my Master thesis adviser Ka-Sing Lau and many others whom I cannot all name. Back then I studied some analysis on fractals, and I had the good fortune to visit Robert Strichartz at Cornell University one summer where we had a memorable time working together.

After that I went on to graduate school at Princeton University, where I became a student of Elias Stein. There I work in harmonic analysis, and I am also interested in its interaction with other fields such as several complex variables, partial differential equations and differential geometry.

In my doctoral dissertation, I studied some subelliptic Sobolev inequalities, as well as some subelliptic duality inequalities for L¹ (the latter are also sometimes known as subelliptic div-curl inequalities). Then I applied these to several complex variables, and I proved an L¹ Sobolev inequality for (0,q) forms on a large class of CR manifolds of finite type.

After my PhD, I moved on to become a Hill Assistant Professor at Rutgers University, under the mentorship of Sagun Chanillo and Richard Wheeden. Then I spent a year as a Titchmarsh Fellow at the University of Oxford, in the OxPDE group. Beginning August 2014, I am an Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. It feels good to be home again!