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November 16, 2012

Wei Xiao

EDUCATION

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY New York, NY

The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

MS in Mathematics in Finance (Expected - January 2014)

Current coursework: Black Scholes model, risk-neutral pricing on options, derivative security

market, portfolio and risk management, Java programming

Future coursework: interest rate models, statistical arbitrage and algorithmic trading, time

series analysis

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Charlottesville, VA

PhD in Theoretical Physics (2007 - 2012)

Dissertation: Stopping Distance for High Energy Jets in Weakly-Coupled Quark-Gluon Plasmas

Applied analytic and numerical techniques to study jet propagation in randomized medium

UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA Hefei, China

BS in Theoretical Physics (2003 - 2007)

Thesis: Graviton Emission Processes in Hadron Colliders

Eleven courses on mathematics, statistics and numerical techniques with GPA 3.95/4.0

EXPERIENCE

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Charlottesville, VA

Graduate Research Assistant on Theoretical and Computational Particle Physics (2008 - 2012)

Theoretically studied jet quenching processes in statistical randomized thermal medium

Calculated jet transport coefficients and stopping distances analytically by solving PDEs

Studied jet quenching by Monte Carlo simulations and wrote extensive C/C++ codes in

GNU/LINUX system

Calculated 2nd order hydrodynamic coefficients from 3 point stress energy tensors via AdS/CFT

correspondence

Graduate Teaching Assistant on Physics Experiments Workshop Classes (2007 - 2008)

Taught undergraduate engineering students how to do data fitting, parameter estimation and error

analysis in physics experiments, using Excel and other data analysis software

UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA Hefei, China

Project in High Energy Particle Phenomenology and Computation Laboratory (2006 - 2007)

Calculated graviton emission rates by performing coevolution integrals in FORTRAN

Adapted codes in Mathematica packages FeynArts and made it suitable for new models

SKILLS & OTHERS

Programming languages: C/C++, Java

Language: Chinese (Native), English (Fluent)

Publication: Coauthored three peer-reviewed papers in the leading journals in theoretical physics