Education & Experience

2019-present    Asistant research fellow, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

2017-2019        Postdoc in the Department of Physics and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, USA

2010-2017        PhD in Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 

2008-2010        MS in Physics, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan

2004-2008        BS in Physics, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan

Publication


1. Hong-Yan Shih, Wen-Min Huang, Sze-Be Hsu and Hsiu-Hau Lin. A new classification scheme for relevant couplings in renormalization group transformations. Physica. C 470, S964-S965 (2010).

2. Hong-Yan Shih, Wen-Min Huang, Sze-Be Hsu and Hsiu-Hau Lin. Hierarchy of relevant couplings in perturbative renormalization group transformations. Phys. Rev. B 81, 121107(R) (2010).

3. Wen-Min Huang, Hong-Yan Shih, Fa Wang and Hsiu-Hau Lin. Anomalous isotope effect in phonon- dressed iron-based superconductor. arXiv:1112.4326 (2011).

4. Hong-Yan Shih and Nigel Goldenfeld, Path-integral calculation for the emergence of rapid evolution from demographic stochasticity. Phys Rev. E 90, 050702(R) (2014).

5. Hong-Yan Shih, Tsung-Lin Hsieh and Nigel Goldenfeld, Ecological collapse and the emergence of traveling waves at the onset of shear turbulence. Nature Physics 12, 245 (2016).

6. Nigel Goldenfeld and Hong-Yan Shih, Turbulence as a problem in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. Journal of Statistical Physics (2017). doi:10.1007/s10955-016-1682-x.

7. Hong-Yan Shih, Harry Mickalide, David T. Fraebel, Nigel Goldenfeld and Seppe Kuehn, Biophysical constraints determine the selection of phenotypic fluctuations during directed evolution. Physical Biology 15, 065003 (2018).

Honors and Awards

1. American Physical Society Dissertation Award in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 2019.

2. L. S. Edelheit Family Fellowship in Biological Physics, 2016, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

3. Government Scholarship for Study Abroad, 2015-2017, Taiwan.

4. Shirley Chan Student Travel Awards, 2014, American Physical Society.

5. University Fellowship, Fall 2013, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

6. University Fellowship, Spring 2012, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

7. Student Publication Award, 2010, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan.

8. Youth Elite of College of Science Award, 2007 & 2008, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

Presentations

1. Invited talk at Niels Bohr Institute, 2019, Denmark

2. Invited talk at the 121st Statistical Mechanics Conference, 2019, USA.

3. Invited talk for the dissertation award at American Physical Society Annual March Meeting, 2019, USA.

4. Contributed talk at American Physical Society Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, 2018, USA.

5. Talk at Workshop: Fluid Flows, from Graphene to planet atmospheres at Weizmann Institute, 2018, Israel.

6. Invited talk at Workshop: Nonequilibrium Physics in Biology at Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, 2018, Stony Brooks University.

7. Invited talk at Young Researchers Workshop: Kinetic descriptions in theory and applications at Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling at University of Maryland, 2018, USA.

8. Invited talk at NCTS Workshop on Complex Fluids at Academia Sinica, 2018, Taiwan.

9. Contributed talk at American Physical Society Annual March Meeting, 2018, USA.

10. Invited talk at The Les Houches Physics School on Evolution of Diversity, 2018, France.

11. Invited talk at ELSI 6th International Symposium at Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2018, Japan.

12. Contributed talk at workshop "Transitions of Turbulence" at Niels Bohr Institute, 2017, Denmark.

13. Contributed talk at American Physical Society Annual March Meeting, 2017, USA.

14. Poster presentation at Gordon Conference on Stochastic Mechanics in Biology, 2017, USA.

15. Contributed talk at Dyanamics Days, 2016, Hong Kong.

16. Contributed talk at American Physical Society Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, 2016, USA.

17. Seminar in University of Tokyo, 2016, Japan

18. Seminar in Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2016, Austria.

19. Contributed talk at American Physical Society Annual March Meeting, 2016, USA.

20. Contributed talk at American Physical Society Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, 2015, USA.

21. Invited seminar in University of Oslo, 2015, Norway.

22. Invited talk at Annual Meeting of Society of Mathematical Biology, 2015, USA.

23. Contributed talk at Astrobiology Science Conference, 2015, USA.

24. Contributed talk at American Physical Society Annual March Meeting, 2015, USA.

25. Contributed talk at American Physical Society Annual March Meeting, 2014, USA.

26. Contributed talk at workshp "Quantitative Laws of Genome Evolution", 2013, Como, Italy.

27. Contributed talk at Center for the Physics of Living Cells Student/Postdoc symposium, 2013, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

28. Poster presentaion at Institute of Genomic Biology Biocomplexity Theme Review, 2013, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

29. Poster presentation at 9th International Conference on Material and Mechanism of Superconductivity, 2009, Tokyo, Japan.

30. Contributed talk at Physical Society of Republic of China Annual Meeting, 2009, Taiwan.