Basics

Name	Junzhe Zhou
Preferred name	Alan (Junzhe) Zhou
Email	junzhez@andrew.cmu.edu
Url	https://azhou00.github.io

Education

• 2024.07 -present

  Graduate (Ph.D.)

  The University of Chicago, Chicago

  Ph.D in Physics

• 2022.08 -2024.07

  Graduate (Ph.D.)

  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

  Ph.D in Physics, (M.S. 2024)

• 2020.01 -2020.05

  Undergraduate

  The Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies (ICCS), Rome

  Classics (Archeology & Art History)

  GPA: 4.0/4.0

• 2018.08 -2022.05

  Undergraduate

  Duke University, Durham

  Physics (B.S.), Mathematics (B.S.), Classics (Minor)

  magna cum laude & with the highest departmental honor

  Dissertation:
  

  Galaxy clustering statistics in the Dark Energy Survey's year 3 source catalog

  Advisor:
  

  Prof. Michael Troxel (Cosmology)

  Prof. Shailesh Chandrasekharan (QFT)

Some awards & grants

• 2024.02

  Jane Street Graduate Research Fellow

  Jane Street

  https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/programs-and-events/grf-profiles-2024/

• 2023.09

  Reconstructing the initial conditions of the universe (PI)

  NSF ACCESS

  Allocation at the Bridges-2 supercomputer at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC)

• 2022.05

  Daphne Chang Memorial Award

  Duke University

• 2021.08

  APS Fall Meeting CEU21 Award

  APS Division of Nuclear Physics

• 2021.05

  Duke University Dean's Summer Research Fellow

  Duke University

• 2021.05

  Duke University Summer IDEA Grant

  Duke University

• 2020.06

  IBM North Carolina Quantum Computing Hackathon, 2nd Place

  IBM

Languages

	Chinese
	native

	English
	bilingual

	Latin
	can read some very old things

	Japanese
	beginner but working on it!