About

born in Vietnam🇻🇳, the prelude of my life was filled with music, opera, and ballet. During high school (2010-2011), I came to the U.S.🇺🇸through a cultural exchange program. Since then I have graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2015) with a B.Sc. Degree and Princeton University (2021) with a Ph.D. Degree (thesis “Swarm Intelligence in Natural and Synthetic Lives“).

I was a postdoc in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University (2021-2023), followed by a postdoc in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University (2023-2025) — where I also worked at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institute. Since Fall 2025, I have been an Assistant Professor of Physics in the Department of Natural Sciences at the Claremont Colleges (Pitzer and Scripps).

My life is blessed with an amazing family, good friends, and great teachers.

Here is my CV.

Notable Professional Activities

I’m a referee for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Small, Biophysical Journal, and other scientific journals. In the summer, if time permits I teach enlisted veterans S.T.E.M. and lab skills for the Warrior-Scholar Project.

I was a Graduate Teaching Fellow at McGraw Center, Princeton University. During my undergrad, I developed some of the notes for high-energy physics courses at M.I.T. OCW and EdX such as 8.851 Effective Field Theory and 8.821 String Theory and Holographic Duality.

In my free time, I enjoy collaborating with talented Vietnamese students on a variety of exploratory topics. I also coach the Vietnamese team for Physics Olympiads at the international level (IPhO and APhO), e.g. the invitation to the team send-off this year. My hope is to support my home country further and help inspire the next generation of physicists.