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Hi, I’m Hsin-Yu Chen (陳欣榆). I came from Taiwan, and spent the first 22 years of my life in a beautiful area 木柵 , Taipei. I am an assistant professor at the Department of Physics at the UT Austin. If you’re interested in joining my group, please feel free to reach out over email.

I got my PhD from the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, and I was a NASA Einstein-MIT Kavli Institute Fellow and a Black Hole Initiative Fellow at Harvard University.

Although I love star gazing, I have been involved with an entirely different approach to observe the Universe–detecting the gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences. My thesis research focuses on Gravitational-Wave Multi-messenger Astronomy, and I’m a member of the LIGO scientific collaboration. I also joined the Dark Energy Survey-Gravitational Wave working group to haunt for the electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational-wave signals.