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).
8. Hong-Yan Shih and Nigel Goldenfeld, Mechanism of rapid evolution, in "Roadmap on biology in time varying environments". Physical Biology 18, 041502 (2021).
9. Xueying Wang, Hong-Yan Shih and Nigel Goldenfeld, Stochastic model for quasi-one-dimensional transitional turbulence with streamwise shear interactions. Physical Review Letter 129, 0341501 (2022).
10. Gregoire Lemoult, Mukund
Vasudevan, Hong-Yan Shih, Gaute Linga, Jochaim Mathiesen, Nigel
Goldenfeld and Bjorn Hof, Directed percolation and puff crystallization
near the transition to pipe turbulence. Accepted by Nature Physics (2024).
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.