Education
Aug 2015 - Present |
Ph.D. in Physics, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA Thesis Advisor: Nigel Goldenfeld |
Aug 2011 - Jun 2015 |
B.S. in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA |
Honors and Awards
Listed in Teachers ranked as excellent, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2021
L.S. Edelheit Family Fellowship in Biological Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall 2020
University Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall 2019
Honorable Mention for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, 2016, 2017
Illinois Distinguished Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015-2018
Paul E. Gray Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program
Researcher, MIT 2012
Publications
3. S.H. Choi, V.D. Rao, T Gernat, A.R. Hamilton, G.E. Robinson and N. Goldenfeld. "Individual variations lead to universal and cross-species patterns of social behavior," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 117, 31754-31759 (2020) [link]
2. M.A. Tahir, R.C. Van Lehn, S.H. Choi and A. Alexander-Katz, "Solvent-exposed lipid tail protrusions depend on lipid membrane composition and curvature," Biochim. Biophys. Acta Biomembr. 1858, 1207-1215 (2016) [link]
1. A.F. Young, J.D. Sanchez-Yamagishi, B. Hunt, S.H. Choi, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, R.C. Ashoori and P. Jarillo-Herrero, "Tunable symmetry breaking and helical edge transport in a graphene quantum spin Hall state," Nature 505, 528-532 (2014) [link]
Presentations
Poster presentation at Summer School on Soft Solids and Complex Fluids, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2018
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant
Discussion for Physics 325 (Classical Mechanics I), UIUC, Spring 2023
Discussion for Physics 326 (Classical Mechanics II), UIUC, Spring 2021 (Listed in Teachers ranked as excellent)
Discussion for Physics 326 (Classical Mechanics II), UIUC, Spring 2021
Discussion for Physics 435 (Electromagnetic Fields I), UIUC, Spring 2020
Lab for Physics 214/213 (Quantum Physics/Thermal Physics, UIUC, Fall 2018 - Spring 2019
Grader
8.044 (Statistical Physics I), MIT, Spring 2015