Address:  
  Morningside Center of Mathematics, No.55, Zhongguancun East Road,  
 
 
  Beijing, 100190, China 
 
 
    
 
 
   
    Personal information: 
   
 
   
     I am currently a postdoc at the Morningside Center of Mathematics, Beijing, China. 
   
 
   
     My research studies low-dimensional topology using techniques from gauge theory and symplectic topology. Currently my work studies SU(2) character varieties of spaces and their relationship with instanton homology.  
   
 
   
  
 
 
 
  Education & Career : 
 
 
   
   
     2017/08-2023/06  Ph.D,  Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA (Supervisor: Paul Kirk) 
   
 
   2013/08-2017/06  B.S., Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA 
  
 
   
    
 
 
  Publications & Preprints: 
 
 
  
   1. (In preparation) Kai Smith, Perturbed Traceless SU(2) Character Varieties for Tangle Sums