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 September 21, 2025. Additionally, you can find a list of my publications on NASA ADS, in my Google Scholar profile, or here
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.
In Fall 2022, I started pursuing my (Astro)physics PhD at UC Santa Barbara, where I work with Siang Peng Oh, partially supported by the James and Mary Jo Hartle Graduate Fellowship.