Yong-Kun Zhang

 National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

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Here is Yong-Kun Zhang (张永坤), a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC).

My research primarily focuses on fast radio bursts, radio signal processing, and the application of machine learning in astronomy. I have also explored various other fields, including using turbulence analysis techniques to study the large-scale structure of the Milky Way from a dynamical perspective with star clusters. I am particularly interested in developing innovative methods to solve complex problems and continuously learning new technologies and tools, some projects can be found in Section Outreach and Other Experience. For more information, please visit My Research Page, PhD Thesis and GitHub/SukiYume.

I am skilled in Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, and web scraping. I am fluent in English and Chinese (native) and proficient in Japanese (N2). Outside of my professional work, I enjoy engaging in photography, which you can find in my Gallery. Additionally, welcome comments at the bottom of the page.

Education Background

• 2019.09 - 2024.06
  National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC)
  Ph.D. of Astrophysics
• 2025.09 - 2019.06
  University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)
  Bachelor of Physics

References

• Prof. Di Li
  Physics Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  dili@nao.cas.cn

• Prof. Chao-Wei Tsai
  National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
  cwtsai@nao.cas.cn

Honors and Awards

• 2024.07
  President Award (Special Prize) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (top 0.1%)
• 2024.07
  Excellent Graduate of Beijing (top 1%)
• 2023.12
  National Scholarship for Graduate Student ^[1] (top 0.1%)
  
• 2023.08
  People's Choice Poster in ACAMAR 9 (top 5%)
• 2021.05
  Merit Student of UCAS (top 10%)

Teaching

• 2020 - 2022
  Advanced Astrophysics (070400M01003H)
  Teaching assistant for graduate course at UCAS
  Prof. Ji-Feng Liu

Professional Service

• 2024
  Referee for Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• 2023
  Referee for Nature Astronomy

Talks and Colloquia

• 2024.11
  DRAFTS & An Active Repeating FRB in a Clean Environment
  FRB 2024, Thailand
• 2023.12
  The Stochastic Nature of Active Repeating Fast Radio Bursts
  DSA Meeting, Online
• 2023.11
  FAST Observations of Fast Radio Burst
  FRB 2023, Online, Invited
• 2023.11
  The Stochastic Nature of Active Repeating Fast Radio Bursts
  FRB 2023, Online
• 2023.08
  The Stochastic Nature of Repeating FRBs
  ACAMAR 9, Perth, Australia, Poster
• 2023.05
  The Stochastic Nature of Active Repeating FRBs
  Chinese Fast Radio Burst Conference 2023, Hefei, China
• 2021.09
  Time Domain Analysis of two active repeating FRBs
  ACAMAR/FRB, Online
• 2021.07
  Periodic Analysis of FRB 121102
  FAST/Future Pulsar Symposium 9, Jinan, China

Approved PI Proposals

• 2024
  • FAST, PT2024_0148, 9 hours
    Monitoring an active repeating FRB in a clean environment
  • FAST, PT2024_0263, 6 hours
    A Mini Survey for White Dwarf Pulsar
• 2023
  • FAST, PT2023_0100, 9 hours
    Do All Active Repeating FRBs Have Complex Magnetic Environments?
• 2022
  • GBT, GBT/22A-502, 41 hours
    Monitoring FRB 20200120E in a Globular Cluster for Polarization Insights
  • FAST, PT2022_0067, 24 hours
    Constrain the Relation between Fast Radio Bursts and Star Formation Rates
• 2021
  • FAST, PT2021_0039, 20 hours
    Do all fast radio bursts repeat?

Outreach and Other Experience

• MSP / This is a popular science project I built for converting radio data into audio.
  • Based on this project, I created a video titled "Sounds from the Depths of the Universe", which was given as a gift to new students at UCAS in 2020. The video was widely shared by media outlets such as People's Daily and CCTV News, receiving widespread acclaim.
• CHIME VOEvents / This is the website I built to summarize CHIME VOEvents.
• DRAFTS / This is a tool I built using deep learning for real-time searching of single pulses in radio data.
• XiaoQing / Based on web scraping and large language models, I created my AI assistant, XiaoQing (小青).

Publications

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1. Most prestigious scholarship for graduate student in China ↩︎