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Xuefeng Ding
中文

ABOUT ME

About

Associate Research Fellow · IHEP-CAS · PI of the Neutrino AI Lab

I build computational tools for neutrino physics, scientific machine learning, and AI-assisted research.

From JUNO solar and reactor neutrinos to scientific AI agents and CPU/GPU-accelerated reconstruction — I work where detector physics meets modern software.

Neutrino oscillation Scientific AI agents Computer vision for physics CPU/GPU performance & parallelization
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Where I’m headed

I have been working on large-language-model (LLM) research; going forward I am moving into AI for science along two directions: (1) scaling the models behind AI-for-Science, and (2) building the AI runtime for research.

Education

PhD in Astroparticle Physics

2015 – 2019

GSSI (L'Aquila) & SISSA (Trieste), Italy

High-precision spectroscopy of solar neutrinos with Borexino and JUNO. Proposed the TFC method helping JUNO reach a 2 MeV threshold for ⁸B solar neutrinos.

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MSc in Theoretical Physics

2012 – 2015

Wuhan University, China

BSc in Physics

2008 – 2012

Wuhan University (Physics base classes), China

Experience

Associate Research Fellow

2023 – present

IHEP-CAS, Beijing

  • ·Lead solar neutrino physics; developing machine-learning-based directionality to improve the signal-to-background ratio.
  • ·Physics R&D for a new time projection chamber (TPC) detector to measure the low-energy reactor neutrino spectrum.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

2019 – 2022

Princeton University, USA

  • ·Developed the analysis strategy for the CNO solar neutrino measurement with Borexino Phase-III data.
  • ·Developed the BAMBI method, improving Borexino CNO sensitivity from 2σ to 5σ.

Research funding

Principal investigator on ~¥10M of research funding — overseas young-talent grants, topic at my discretion:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences · PI · ¥3M
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China · PI · ¥3M
  • National Key R&D Program of China (MOST) — sub-project · PI · ¥3M
  • Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS · PI · ¥1M