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News

[09/2025] New paper Observation of Two-dimensional Branched Flow of Light was published in Physical Review Letter

[09/2024] Work as Graduate Student Researcher at Prof. Dan Stamper-Kurn’s Group.

[08/2024] Started new academic journey as a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley.

[06/2024] Graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University with summa cum laude.

[06/2024] Awarded with the honor of Shanghai Outstanding Graduate (top 0.1%).

[04/2024] New paper Chaos-Assisted Dynamical Tunneling in Flat Band Superwires was published in Entropy.

[07/2023] Started new academic journey as an undergraduate research fellow at Harvard University. Worked as a full-time undergraduate research fellow in Prof. Eric Heller’s Group. My project are about superwire in period system.

[02/2023] Started new academic journey as an exchange student at Massachusett Institute of Technology.

[09/2021] Worked as a part-time undergraduate researcher in Prof. Fangwei Ye’s Group. My research topic are realization of 3-Dimensional Branched Flow and Nonlinear Branched Flow.

Publication

(*: Equal Contribution)

Google Scholar

⦁ Yan Liu*, Ke Lin*, Zhaoyu Liu, et al., “Observation of Two-dimensional Branched Flow of Light”, Physical Review Letter 2025 (in press) https://doi.org/10.1103/gyqw-d17z

⦁ Anton M. Graf, Ke Lin, MyeongSeo Kim, Joonas Keski-Rahkonen, Alvar Daza, and Eric J. Heller, “Chaos-Assisted Dynamical Tunneling in Flat Band Superwires”, Entropy 2024, 26(6), 492; https://doi.org/10.3390/e26060492

⦁ Z. P. Fu*, Z. W. Zhang*, K. Lin*, D. Wu, J. Zhang, “Stopping power of high-density alpha-particle clusters in warm dense deuterium-tritium fuels”, Physics of Plasmas 1 July 2023; 30 (7): 072708. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0156388

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Teaching Assistant

Physics Laboratory

Zhiyuan College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2024

Selected Awards

• Rongchang Scholarship of Science Innovation (Best 10 undergraduates in SJTU, CNY30,000), 2022

• A-Level Scholarship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Top 1%), SJTU, 2021&2022

• National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China, 2021

• Hanyingjuhua Scholarship (Best 15 undergraduates in Zhiyuan Collage, CNY15,000), 2021

• 1st Prize in China Undergraduate Physics academic Tournament (CUPT) First time for SJTU, 2021

  As a leader of the team on behalf of SJTU, won 1st Prize for the first time