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Huey-Wen Lin

Associate Professor

Department of Physics and Astronomy
Computational Mathematics,
  Science and Engineering

Michigan State University

Email: hwlin@pa.msu.edu

Education

• Columbia University (New York, NY), Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Ph.D. in Physics
• National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan), School of Science B.S. in Physics

Employment

• Associate Professor, Michigan State University; 2021 –
• Assistant Professor, Michigan State University; 2016 – 2021
• Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley; 2015 – 2016
• Research Assistant Professor, University of Washington; 2009 – 2014
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Theory group at Jefferson Lab; 2006 – 2009

Selected Awards and Grants

• 2022 American Physical Society (APS) Fellow
  "For pioneering lattice-QCD calculations of the Bjorken-x dependence of quark and gluon distributions in the nucleon and pion which have led to rapid developments in the field, and outstanding contributions to cross-community efforts to combine lattice inputs with experimental data to advance QCD."
• MSU's Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Awards, 2023
• Early Career Research Awards, Natural Science College, Michigan State University, 2021–2022
• NSF Research Award: "Mapping the Structure of Hadrons with Lattice", 2022–2025
• NSF CAREER Award: "Constraining Parton Distribution Functions for New-Physics Searches", 2017–2022
• Cottrell Scholar Award "Unveiling the Three Three-Dimensional Structure of Nucleons" from Research Corporation for Science Advancement, 2020–2023
• "From Quarks to Stars: A Quantum Computing Approach to the Nuclear Many-Body Problem", $750K, 2020–2023, Investigator: Morten Hjorth-Jensen((PI), Alexei Bazavov, Scott Bogner, Heiko Hergert, Matthew Hirn, Dean Lee, Huey-Wen Lin and Andrea Shindler
• DOE ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) Award (of 40 nationwide across industry, academia and national laboratories), 2017
• Blewett Fellowship, American of Physics Society
• Jefferson Science Associates Promising Young Scientist Grant
• Conference on Computational Physics Grant by European Physical Society

Selected Synergistic Activities

• Elected Member, APS DNP Executive Committee, 2022 - 2024
• Elected Member, USQCD Executive Committee, 2020 - 2023
• Convener of the topical group on “QCD and strong interactions: hadronic structure and forward QCD” of the Energy Frontier group of the next HEP Community Planning Exercise (a.k.a. Snowmass), 2020–2022
• Chair, DIS2023: XXX International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects, March 27 - 31, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
• Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Photonuclear Reactions, August 7-12, 2022, Holderness, NH, USA
• Lead Organizer for INT Summer School on Problem Solving in Lattice QCD, flipped-classroom style, Jun. 28–Jul. 16, 2021, Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, WA, US
• Chair for the 36th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Jul. 22 – 28, 2018, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
• Vice-Chair, APS DNP Publication Committee, 2022-2023
• Vice-Chair, 2024 APS Feshbach Prize Committee
• Vice-Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Photonuclear Reactions, August 5-10, 2018, Holderness, NH, USA
• Member, International Advisory Committee for the 35th, 37th, 38th, 40th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023)
• Organizer, ECT* workshop on Revealing Emergent Mass through Studies of Hadron Spectra and Structure, Trento, Italy Sep 12–16 2022
• Member, Evaluation Committee for Kenneth G. Wilson Award for Excellence in Lattice Field Theory (to recognize outstanding contributions in lattice field theory), 2021–2022
• Organizer, CTEQ School on QCD and Electroweak Phenomenology, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA July 6–16 2022
• Organizer, The FRIB-TA Summer School: “Quantum Computing and Nuclear Few- and Many- Body Problems”, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), June 20–22, 2022
• Organizer, 2021 MCnet-CTEQ Summer School on QCD, Electroweak Phenomenology, and Monte Carlo Generators, 5–15 September 2021, Dresden, Germany
• Organizer, 14th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics (TOP 2021), Virtual, September 13–17, 2021
• Member, APS 2021 Nicholas Metropolis Award Committee for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work in Computational Physics
• Initiator and Co-organizer for Workshop on Parton Distributions and Lattice Calculations in the LHC era, March 22 – 24, 2017, Oxford, UK
• Program committee member of 2017 APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics (GHP)
• Convener for "Mini Symposium on Nucleon Spin Structure and Lattice QCD", the 22nd International Spin Symposium, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Sep. 25 – 30, 2016
• Lead organizer for INT program Intersections of BSM Phenomenology and QCD for New Physics Searches, Sep. 14 – Oct. 23, 2015
  including Program Workshop: "QCD for New Physics at the Precision Frontier"
• Convener for "QCD and New Physics: Physics beyond the Standard Model with Hadronic Physics Precision Data and Precision Calculations", International Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum X, Oct.8-12, 2012;
  Saint Petersburg, Russia, Sep. 8–12 2014
• Co-organizer for Mini-Workshop on Lattice Parton Physics Project, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, Apr. 3–5, 2014
• Organizer for Workshop on the Frontiers of Parton Distribution Functions on the Lattice, at Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China, Nov. 6–8, 2013
• Lead Organizer for ECT* workshop on Nucleon Matrix Elements for New-Physics Searches, ECT*, Trento, Italy, July 22–26, 2013
• Lead Organizer, Summer School on "Lattice QCD and Nuclear Physics", Institute of Nuclear Theory, Aug. 6–23, 2012
• Organizer, XXVI International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 14–19 2008