Tianbai Xiao
Scientific Researcher / Software Developer / Amateur Photographer
「馬子唄の鈴鹿越ゆるや春の雨」
Things you might want to know
- Born in Hefei / Graduated with a Ph.D. from Peking University / Lives in Beijing.
- I'm now a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. I play with computational math.
- Suffice it to say, I know very little about what's involved.
- Sometimes I do photography. I benefited a lot from the work of Hiroshi Sugimoto and Yoshihiko Ueda.
- I greatly appreciate the sense of order found in modernist architecture, starting from Le Corbusier. I'm an enthusiast of Tchaikovsky. I'm obsessed with Li Juan's books lately.
- Studying and working in Europe (mostly Germany) changed me forever, but the more I realize that I am a pure oriental from bones.
Things I have been working on
- Mesoscopic science: discovering multi-scale physics from atom to continuum through theoretical and numerical modeling.
- Data-driven approaches: Integrating scientific machine learning and uncertainty quantification to transform stochastic data into reliable knowledge.
- Kinetic.jl: an open-source toolbox for fusing fluid dynamics and machine learning.
Things that intrigue me lately
- Different languages as different worlds, Roland Barthes' Writing Degree Zero
- The ultimate between man, machine, and computing power, Sam Altman's blog
- Taking pictures with Shōji Ueda's mindset, 植田正治, 《小传记》
- Why China produces cybersecurity experts
- Microeconomics as a many-agent system, Torsten Trimborn's thesis