Curriculum Vitae

Education Experience

• Tsinghua University - Sep 2024 - Present
  • Visiting Scholar
  • Yau Mathematical Sciences Center (YMSC)
  • Co-advised by Quantum Information Group and Mathematical Physics Group
• Westlake University - Dec 2025 - Jan 2026
  • Invited Visiting Student for Collaboration
  • In Physics Department
• University of Science and Technology in China (USTC) - Mar 2025 - Jul 2025
  • Invited Visiting Student for Collaboration
  • In Particle Cosmology Group
• University of California, Santa Barbara - Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
  • Summer Visiting Student
  • In High Energy Theory Group
• University of California, Berkeley - Jan 2023 - Jun 2023
  • International Student
  • Berkeley Physics International Education (BPIE)
• Nanjing University - Sep 2020 - Jul 2024
  • Bachelor in Physics
  • National Top-notch Student Education Program for Fundamental Sciences (5‰ in students of basic science)

Entrepreneurial Ventures

• Mira (Cofounder) - Mar 2026 - Present
  • Co-founder of Mira, an OpenClaw-native proactive AI companion built around real-time sensing, long-term memory, low-disturbance decision-making, and action in the physical world
  • Responsible for software and algorithm engineering, including scientific-data workflows, information extraction, structured memory, and product-facing automation
  • Built Mira Light as an embodied AI companion in the form of a Pixar-style desk lamp that senses user state via camera and microphone and responds through light, posture, and smart-home orchestration
  • Led product definition and end-to-end prototyping from interaction concept to embodied demo, completing a functional hardware prototype within 48 hours
  • Mira Light is expected to enter pilot production and fundraising in May 2026
  • Project documents: Mira Light 项目说明书, Mira 项目说明书
  • Awards and recognition:
    • RMB 120,000+ in prize money, broad media exposure, and extensive opportunities for investor access and community building
    • Top 1 in the Hardware Track at the Attrax Tsinghua OpenClaw Hackathon
    • Top 1 in the OpenClaw Track at the Zhongguancun Forum AI Innovation Competition
    • Top 1 in the Life Track at the Zhongguancun Academy Lobster Competition
    • Top 5 in the Hardware Track at the Xiaohongshu Hackathon Summit
    • Top 2 at the AI Shrimpathon Industry-Level Agent Evaluation Competition
  • Media and public exposure:
    • Featured by CCTV, Haidian Daily, National Business Daily, and other media
    • Invited to a dedicated two-hour 36Kr live interview with 10,000+ viewers
    • Represented Tsinghua contestants at Yuandian Academy for reporting and award presentation

Internship

• Tsingyu AI (清屿科技) - Mar 2026 - Jun 2026
  • A Tsinghua-based AI startup focused on using AI agents to improve knowledge acquisition and scientific research efficiency
  • Responsible for Scientify, an open-source AI scientist that integrates literature ingestion, private knowledge, persistent research memory, self-evolution, hypothesis generation, and multi-agent validation from survey and planning to code implementation and experiments
  • Helped turn research content into structured, reusable product data and evaluation workflows, aligning scientific usefulness with product quality and user-facing delivery

Awards

Competitions

• National First Prize, 12th China Undergraduate Physics Tournament (CUPT), Team Nanjing University (2021)
  IYPT-style national competition in physics problem solving and debate.
• First Prize, 24th Forum of Sciences & Arts of Nanjing University (2021)

Scholarships

• National Scholarship (Nanjing University) (2021)
  Departmental selection: 2/200 students per year.
• Special Scholarship for Outstanding Science Students (Top-Notch Program), twices (2021, 2022)
  Awarded twice; department quota: 20/200 students per year.
• People’s Scholarship — Science & Technology Innovation Award (2023)
  Departmental selection: 10/200 students per year.

Social Honors

• Best Answerers in physics, Zhihu
  70/420,000,000 users
• Outstanding COVID-19 Response Volunteer
• Outstanding Promoter of Chinese Culture

Scientific Outreach

I am always eager to share my insights and knowledge. Since undergrad, I have maintained a science outreach blog on theoretical and mathematical physics: zhihu.com/people/Junkai-Wang (Chinese). It has 46k+ agrees, 50k+ favorites, 16k+ followers, and 12k+ shares. More than 300 blogs and answers have been published, covering various topics in theoretical physics. The blog has attracted over 5,000,000+ views, and I was awarded as a “Best answerer in Physics” (70/420,000,000 users), helping thousands of Chinese physics students and even faculty members in the past few years.

SKILLS

• Languages: Mandarin (native), English (fluent), Japanese (basic)
• Code: Python, Mathematica, Matlab, Lean

Publications

Post-Selection-Free Quantum Automated Learning (in Preparation)

Wang, Junkai; Deng, Dong-Ling; Liu, Jin-Peng. (2026). "Post-Selection-Free Quantum Automated Learning (in Preparation)." Manuscript in preparation.

LeanCat: A Benchmark Suite for Formal Category Theory in Lean (Part I: 1-Categories)

Xu, Rongge; Dai, Hui; Fu, Yiming; Jiang, Jiedong; Nie, Tianjiao; Wang, Hongwei; Wang, Junkai; Yang, Holiverse; Yang, Jiatong; Zhang, Zhi-Hao. (2025). "LeanCat: A Benchmark Suite for Formal Category Theory in Lean (Part I: 1-Categories)." arXiv. arXiv:2512.24796. Preparing submission to ICML 2026.

Quantum Gravity Meets DESI: Dynamical Dark Energy in Light of the Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture

Li, Chunyu; Wang, Junkai; Zhang, Dongdong; Saridakis, Emmanuel N.; Cai, Yi-Fu. (2025). "Quantum Gravity Meets DESI: Dynamical Dark Energy in Light of the Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture." Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics.

Development of Gravity Theories in the View of TRAPPIST-1e

Wang, Nan; Lu, Lu-Yao; Liu, Hui-Gen; Chen, An-Dong; Lu, Tiger; Cui, Ao-Ran; Wang, Jun-Kai. (2025). "Development of Gravity Theories in the View of TRAPPIST-1e." Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 25(1):015003.

Form & Function: A Linguistic-Semiotic Investigation on Modern Physics

Wang, Junkai. (2021). "Form & Function: A Linguistic-Semiotic Investigation on Modern Physics." Conference paper, 5th National Symposium on Philosophy of Physics (China).

Talks

Academic Talks

• Seminar of Quantum Scientific Computation and Quantum Artificial Intelligence - Apr 1, 2026
  From Quantum Artificial Intelligence to Improved Quantum Automated Learning
  Yau Mathematical Sciences Center (YMSC), Tsinghua University
• Seminar of Quantum Scientific Computation and Quantum Artificial Intelligence - Mar 18, 2026
  Verified Open-System Quantum Simulation with Mixed-State Diagnostics
  Yau Mathematical Sciences Center (YMSC), Tsinghua University
• Fudan Student Workshop on Theoretical Physics (in Preparation) - 2026
  On recent progress of generalised symmetries, mixed states, and SSB
  On recent progress of Quantizing 3d Gravity and its relation with LQG and TQFT
  Fudan University
• Seminar of Quantum Scientific Computation and Quantum Artificial Intelligence - 2025
  Introduction to ‘A theory of quantum differential equation solvers’
  Tsinghua University
• 3rd SUSTech Mathematical Physics Workshop - 2025
  An Introduction to String Phenomenology and Recent Progress in the Swampland Program
  Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)
• 25th Corfu Summer Institute 2025 - Workshop on Quantum Gravity and Strings - 2025
  Quantum Gravity Meets DESI: Dynamical Dark Energy in Light of Swampland Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture
  European Institute for Sciences and their Applications (EISA)
• 25th Corfu Summer Institute 2025 - Tensions in Cosmology - 2025
  Quantum Gravity Meets DESI: Dynamical Dark Energy in Light of Swampland Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture
  European Institute for Sciences and their Applications (EISA)
• International Symposium on Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (CosPA 2025) - 2025
  Quantum Gravity Meets DESI: Dynamical Dark Energy in Light of Swampland Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture
  Institute for Basic Science (IBS) & Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS)
• Seminar of Quantum Scientific Computation and Quantum Artificial Intelligence - 2024
  An Invitation to Topological Data Analysis
  Tsinghua University
• 2nd SUSTech Mathematical Physics Workshop - 2024
  (1) Recent Developments in Black Hole Thermodynamics and the Information Paradox
  (2) The Art of Estimation and Dimensional Analysis in Zee’s _Fly by Night Physics_
  Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)
• Quantum Many-Body Grain Pecking Seminar - 2024
  A Comparative Study of Mathematical structure of QFT in Condensed Matter and High Energy Physics
  Online Webinar
• KAHF Seminar of Theoretical Physics - 2023
  An Introduction to JT Gravity as a Matrix Integral
  Online Webinar
• 1st SUSTech Mathematical Physics Workshop - 2023
  Monopoles in Classical Field Theory, Supersymmetric Field Theory, and Topological Defect Theory
  Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)
• Workshop on Algebraic Quantum Gravity - 2023
  Algebraic Quantum Field Theory and Its Applications to Quantum Gravity
  Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 5th National Symposium on Philosophy of Physics - 2021
  Form & Function: A Linguistic-Semiotic Investigation on Modern Physics
  University of Science and Technology of China

Posters

• Frontiers of Quantum Machine Learning International Symposium (Scheduled) - May 10, 2026
  co-organized by IOP Publishing and Tsinghua University / Beijing, China
• International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS 2025) - 2025
  Tsinghua University / Yau Mathematical Sciences Center (YMSC) / co-organized with Beijing Municipal Government and Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA)
• The 16th Asia Pacific Physics Conference (APPC16) - 2025
  Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS) & Chinese Physical Society (CPS) / hosted by Hainan University

Conference Attending

• Strings 2026 (Scheduled) (2026)
  Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences (SIMIS) & Fudan University, China
• New Frontiers of Quantum Field and Gravity (2026)
  Peking University, China
• New Developments in Black Holes and de Sitter Space (2026)
  Xiamen University, China
• Loops'26 International Conference on Quantum Gravity (Scheduled) (2026)
  Zhejiang University of Technology, China
• Formal Math Frontiers: From Implementation to AI Assistance (2026)
  Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research (BICMR), Peking University
• UFITS Astrophysics & Cosmology Summer School (2025)
  Yunnan University and Astronomical Society of Anhui Province, China
• The 1st International Conference on AI Scientists (ICAIS 2025) (2025)
  Zhongguancun Academy, China
• Symmetries in QFT and Particle Physics (2025)
  Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea
• Spring School on Quantum Artificial Intelligence (Quantum AI) (2025)
  Shanghai Jiao Tong University--Chongqing Institute of Artificial Intelligence
• Post-Hubble-Era Cosmology: JWST, DESI, and CSST Observations & Theory Workshop (2025)
  Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ITP-CAS); co-organized with Ningbo University, China
• Generalized Symmetries in HEP and CMP (2025)
  Department of Physics, Peking University, China
• First-Principle Physics Meets Artificial Intelligence --- 2025 DeepH Workshop (2025)
  Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, China
• 5th Turing Forum of 3 Institutes (2025)
  Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS), Tsinghua University; co-initiated with Peking University (Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (John Hopcroft Center for Computer Science)
• String Theory and Quantum Field Theory 2024 (2024)
  Fudan University, China
• International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS 2024) (2024)
  Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA), China
• Holography in Beijing 2024 (2024)
  Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences (Kavli ITS), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China
• Summer School of Theoretical Physics (2022)
  Institute of Theoretical Physics, Peking University, China
• International Expedition on Mega-science Facilities of High Energy Physics (2022)
  School of Physics & Undergraduate Education Office, Nanjing University, China
• International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM 2022) (2022)
  Tsinghua University, China
• Future Scientist Exchange Program (FuSEP), International Online Summer Camp (2021)
  University of Science and Technology of China

Talks on Learning Seminar

• Von Neumann Algebra in Physics Learning Seminar — 2025–2026
  Peking University

• AdS/CFT Reading Seminar — 2024–2026
  Peking University

• Black Hole Learning Seminar — 2024–2025
  Tsinghua University & Yanqi Lake Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA)

• Lie Group & Lie Algebra Learning Seminar — 2024–2024
  Yau Center, Southeast University

• General Relativity Learning Seminar — 2023–2024
  Yau Center, Southeast University

Leadership

Organizer Experience

• KAHF Seminar (Invited Talk Series) — Online Webinar (2021--2023)
• Global Young Theoretical Physicist Seminar — Nanjing University (2022--2024)
• General Relativity and Quantum Field Theory Undergraduate Seminar — Nanjing University (2021--2024)

Leadership and Activities

• Youth Volunteer Association, School of Physics, Nanjing University — Vice President (2021--2022)
• Society of Physics Students ("Fulcrum" Society), School of Physics, Nanjing University — Vice President (2021--2022)

Social Engagement

• UNESCO Nanjing Peace Forum — Student Representative (2021)
• University-level Special Social Practice Project (NJU 120th Anniversary) — Core Organizer (2022)
• Social Volunteer — Volunteer (2020--Present)