Mentorship
I have been a PRIMES mentor for many years during my Ph.D. studying at MIT. The PRIMES is a program launched by MIT Math Department that provides research opportunities in mathematics, engineering and science for top high school students across the America. Here is a portal to the PRIMES homepage. The followings are some selected projects:
- Mentee: Yi Liang
- Mentee: Jessica Zhang
- Period: Jan 2020 - Jul 2020
- Research paper: Classification of tight contact structures on a solid torus. Accepted by Math. Res. Lett.
- Jessica has received the following awards: 1. 2021 Regeneron STS top 40 finalist. 2. 2021 S.-T. Yau High School Science Award (North America), Bronze Medal in Mathematics. 3. 2021 Regeneron ISEF 2nd Grand Award. 4. The first-place award of the Karl Menger Memorial Awards from AMS.
- Jessica has been admitted to Harvard.
- Mentee: Nithin Kavi
- Mentee: Nithin Kavi and Wendy Wu