About Me
Hi! My name is Zirui. I am interested in theoretical and computational astrophysics.
My CV can be found here, which was last updated on June 23, 2026. Additionally, you can find a list of my publications on NASA ADS, in my Google Scholar profile, or here
I am currently a (Astro)physics PhD candidate at UC Santa Barbara, where I work with Prof. S. Peng Oh on understanding turbulence in astrophysical environments. Tools I frequently use in my research include transition matrix and Markov chain, stochastic differential equations, probability theory and probability density function modeling, Python and C++ programming, quantitative data analysis, and large-scale parallelized computing.
I earned my undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy at Columbia University, where I was a John Jay Scholar, a Junior Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated with latin honors (Summa Cum Laude) and departmental honors. During my undergrad, I had the pleasure to work with Greg Bryan (Columbia) and Drummond Fielding (CCA) on developing analytic models for turbulent radiative mixing layers in galaxies, and with David Kipping (Columbia) at the Cool Worlds Lab on transit patterns of circumbinary planets.