Alan Junzhe Zhou

Cosmology - Astrophysics - Deep Probabalistic Learning @ UChicago

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Me in Nara!!

(by Jiachuan)

Hi, this is Alan, 周俊哲 :) I am an (almost) third-year Physics Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago advised by Prof. Scott Dodelson. I work on cosmology, astrophysics, and statistical inference. Currently, I am using deep probabilistic models to reconstruct the evolutionary trajectory of our universe using large observational data sets. I did my first two years of Ph.D. at CMU, where I was a part of the McWilliams Center for Cosmology and the NSF AI Planning Institute. Most of my works are done at the Perlmutter supercomputer at NERSC and the Bridges-2 supercomputer at the PSC. I am also supported by Jane Street as a Jane Street Graduate Research Fellow.



A short bio:

I grew up in Beijing, China. I attended high school in Pebble Beach CA (after a short stay in Miami), went to Duke University for undergrad, spent two years at Carnegie Mellon University, and am currently at UChciago. I enjoy exploring all the little corners of this world! Before working on cosmology, I researched at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, did classical archeology and early modern art history in Rome, studied at the Duke Kunshan campus near Shanghai, and was very interested in QFT and nuclear theories! I was incredibly lucky to have met so many great mentors, who showed me how all these fields shared the same indelible human touch. I am really looking forward to sharing some of this journey here, and please bear with me as I figure out how this website works!

News

Feb 24, 2024 Thank you Jane Street for the 2024 Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship 😊

Selected Publications

2024

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    Accurate field-level weak lensing inference for precision cosmology
    Alan Junzhe Zhou, Xiangchong Li, Scott Dodelson, and 1 more author
    Phys. Rev. D, Jul 2024
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    A Hamiltonian, post-Born, three-dimensional, on-the-fly ray tracing algorithm for gravitational lensing
    Alan Junzhe Zhou, Yin Li, Scott Dodelson, and 4 more authors
    Jul 2024
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2023

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    Field-level multiprobe analysis of the CMB, integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect, and the galaxy density maps
    Alan Junzhe Zhou, and Scott Dodelson
    Phys. Rev. D, Oct 2023
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2022

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    Spacetime symmetric qubit regularization of the asymptotically free two-dimensional O(4) model
    Alan Junzhe Zhou, Hersh Singh, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, and 2 more authors
    Phys. Rev. D, Mar 2022
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