CV

Education

• National University of Singapore
  • Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics and Computer Science, 2023 - 2028 (expected)
  • Supervisors: Lee Ching Hua and Kenji Kawaguchi
  • GPA: 5.00/5.00
• Sichuan University
  • Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, 2019 - 2023
  • GPA: 3.96/4.00 (Ranking 1/285)
• University of California, Berkeley
  • Visiting Student (BPIE), Physics, 2022
  • GPA: 4.00/4.00
• University of Oxford
  • Summer Institute, Physics, 2022
  • GPA: 90/100

Publications

Automated Metric Discovery: Navigating Quantum Geometry with Symbolic Regression

Yan, Xianquan. “Automated Metric Discovery: Navigating Quantum Geometry with Symbolic Regression,” 2025.

Precise Identification of Topological Phase Transitions with Eigensystem-Based Clustering

Yan, Xianquan, and Jian-Song Pan. “Precise Identification of Topological Phase Transitions with Eigensystem-Based Clustering,” 2025.

HSG-12M: A Large-Scale Spatial Multigraph Dataset

Yan, Xianquan, Hakan Akgün, Kenji Kawaguchi, N. Duane Loh, and Ching Hua Lee. “HSG-12M: A Large-Scale Spatial Multigraph Dataset.” arXiv, 2025. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2506.08618.

Scale-Invariant Dynamics in a Purely Deterministic Game of Life Model

Akgun, Hakan, Xianquan Yan, Tamer Taskiran, Muhamet Ibrahimi, Ching Hua Lee, and Seymur Jahangirov. “Scale-Invariant Dynamics in a Purely Deterministic Game of Life Model.” arXiv, June 7, 2025. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.07189.

Experience

• Student Research Assistant
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2022
  • Berkeley, California, United States. Hybrid.
  • Supervisor: Benjamin Nachman
• Teaching Assistant
  • National University of Singapore, 2024 - 2025
  • Singapore. Onsite.

Honors and Awards

• China National Scholarship (Top 0.2%), The Ministry of Education of the P.R. China, 2020 & 2021
• 1st Prize, Scholarship of *Bajian- program for fundamental disciplines 2.0, The Ministry of Education of the P.R. China, 2022
• 1st Prize, CASC Scholarship, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, 2022
• Gold, Asia International Mathematical Olympiad Open Contest, A.I.M.O. Union, 2012
• Provincial Excellent Student Leader, The Education Department of Sichuan Province, 2019
• 1st Prize and Best Demeanor Award, South-West Undergraduate Physics Tournament, Sichuan Physical Society, 2020
• 2nd Prize, National English Competition for College Students, Advisory Board for College Foreign Language Teaching and College English Teaching Research Association of China, 2020

Extracurricular Activities

• Football (Soccer), School Team
  • Captain, Left-Winger, 2013 - 2023
• English Debate Team of Sichuan University and Chinese Debate Team of Department of Physics
  • Debater, 2019 - 2021
• Sichuan University Mathematica Society
  • Director, 2021 - 2023
• Sichuan University English Association
  • Director, 2019 - 2021
• Calligraphy
• Marathon Runner