| What is your most memorable childhood experience? | I remember coming to the USA, and seeing Lake Michigan at sunrise. On my first day in America I jogged for an hour from my hotel to the lake. It was three degrees Fahrenheit. I realized that, after dreaming about it for a decade, I was finally in America. I was full of joy, knowing that after my life in China I was finally in the land of the free. |
| What immediate family member do you closely identify with and why? | Grandma, she babysat for me when I was young. She influenced me as an engineer and scientist. |
| What character traits do you admire in an individual? | I admire perseverance, modesty and curiosity. |
| What is the funniest thing ever to happen to you? | My friend got drunk and told me that E=2mc^2. And the day after, we tried our best to find the evidence of that. In the quantum world, that is actually possible. So he was not talking nonsense. |
| If time and money were not an issue, where would you travel and why? | I would travel around the world. But I also want to visit the North Pole. It is one of the few places that is clean. Plus there are some cool high energy physics facilities there. |
| When and if you ever have children, what would you like to pass on to them? | I hope to pass on the Warrior Spirit:
Never give up, give 100% most of the time, be modest. |
