PEOPLE
LI Ka Yau Elwin
LI Ka Yau Elwin / PHY-MPhil (2024)
Supervised by Otto HANNUKSELA
Education
- MPhil student in Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2024 – Present
- B.S. in Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2020 – 2024
Research Interest
- Gravitational-wave Physics
Research and Professional Experience
- Searching for eccentric gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence, 2023-Present
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Professor Otto A. Hannuksela
The California Institute of Technology, Professor Alan J. Weinstein - Searching for lensed gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence, 2024-Present
The California Institute of Technology, Alvin K. Y. Li, Juno C. L. Chan- Look for possible lensed subthreshold counterparts to confirm gravitational waves
- Measuring the surface glass transition temperature, the region of the change from a rigid “glassy” state to a flexible “rubbery” state of Polystyrene (PS) and Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) using two different methods, 2022-2023
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Professor Tsui Ophelia Kwan Chui
Awards and Honors
- LIGO Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF), 2023
The California Institute of Technology - HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund – Talent Development Scholarship, 2021-2022
Conference Presentations
- LIGO Waveform Telecon 2023 Nov 2, 2023
“A look at TEOBResumS eccentric – Pre-review TEOBResumS study Presentation” – Elwin Li
Other Skills
- Language skills:
- Fluent Cantonese (Native)
- Fluent English
- Fluent Mandarin
- Moderate Japanese
- Computational skills:
- Python
- C / C++
- LabVIEW
- Linux
- HTCondor
- Shell
- LaTeX