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