Jeff Haoxuan Zheng
Graduate Student in Physics at M.I.T.
Curriculum Vitae
Skills
Research experience
OMNISCOPE: Prototyping A Scalable Fourier Transform Telescope with Precision Calibration
2011 Fall - Present
M.I.T, Prof. Max Tegmark
- I am leadinga group here at M.I.T. working on the OMNISCOPE.
- I work on almost every aspect of the project, ranging from electrical component testing to FPGA programming to novel algorithm design and implementation. For detailed information visit my projects page.
Quantum Random Number Generation at High Speed
2010 Summer
University of Toronto, Prof. Hoi-Kwong Lo
- Team coordination and leadership
- Novel algorithm invention and implementation
- Software development with robust and user-friendly coding
- Digital design and FPGA programming with floor planning
- Signal processing and data analysis
- Field deployment of prototype instrument
- Signal chain electronics test and repair
- Boosted Quantum Random Number Generation speed from previous 500Mbit/s to 6Gbit/s with entropy exponentially close to theoretical bound, by designing and implementing a novel extractor scheme
- Systematically investigated the efficiency of a variety of existing randomness extractor schemes
- Programmed an efficient and user-friendly toolbox for analyzing random bit stream data
- Awarded fellowship by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Testing Anisotropic Cosmological Models
Fall 2008 - Fall 2009
University of Richmond, Prof. Ted E. Bunn
- Tested physically motivated nonstandard (anisotropic) cosmological models for consistency with the large-angle maps of the cosmic microwave background radiation
- Simulated the formation of anisotropic CMBs and calculated Bayesian evidence for anisotropic models, utilizing parallel computing techniques
- Awarded summer fellowship by Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Languages
Daily usage:
* C++
* Python
* Mathematica
Substantial past experience:
* Shell
* Java
* Matlab
Physical Properties of Dark Energy
Fall 2007 - Summer 2008
University of Richmond, Prof. Ted E. Bunn
- Quantitatively examined a broad class of models of dark energy for consistency with observational data, including measurements of the supernova redshift-distance relation and constraints from the cosmic microwave background and big-bang nucleosynthesis
- Numerically solved coupled differential equations and performed Chi-square tests
- Awarded summer fellowship by University of Richmond School of Arts & Science
Publication
list
MITEoR: A Scalable Interferometer for Precision 21 cm Cosmology
Oct 2014
Zheng and Tegmark et al.
Mapmaking for Precision 21 cm Cosmology
Oct 2014
Dillon et al.
Mapping our Universe in 3D with MITEoR
Oct 2013
Zheng and Tegmark et al.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6731928
Ultrafast quantum random number generation based on quantum phase fluctuations
May 2012
Feihu Xu, Bing Qi, Xiongfeng Ma, He Xu, Haoxuan Zheng, and Hoi-Kwong Lo
Cosmic microwave background constraints on cosmological models with large-scale isotropy breaking
September 2010
Haoxuan Zheng and Emory F. Bunn
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2011 - 2016 Cambridge, M.A.
PhD in Physics GPA: 4.8/5.0
University of Richmond
2007 - 2011 Richmond, V.A.
BSc in Mathematics and Physics GPA: 4.0/4.0
Summa Cum Laude