Hi, it's Tianyu Zhang (张天宇)

(This was me in 2024 before my Ph.D. so don't trust it too much. 😁👻)

Hello! I’m Tianyu Zhang (张天宇, click to learn the story of my name). I’m a first-year Ph.D. student at University of Michigan, advised by Prof. David Brang. Currently, my research interests lie within the domain of attention and multi-sensory perception, focusing on the mutual influences between visual and auditory information. Ultimately, I hope to get a quasi-comprehensive understanding of how we construct our rich perceptual and cognitive experience.

Before joining UMich, I gained my master’s degree in psychology at Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China) under the guidance of Prof. Yongchun Cai, working on how attention and eye movement shapes basic-level visual perception.

Before my master, I was an undergraduate student in psychology (with a minor in economics) at Fudan University (Shanghai, China). My undergraduate research was mentored by Prof. Jinmian Yang, focusing on eye movement control mechanisms in Chinese reading.

Outside the lab, I also enjoy a life full of rich perceptual and cognitive experience. I love many things (but the things are continuously changing). Recently the non-academic elements in my life are swimming, playing Brawl Stars, and Chinese seal carving.

news

Jan 15, 2016	A simple inline announcement with Markdown emoji!
Nov 07, 2015	A long announcement with details
Oct 22, 2015	A simple inline announcement.

selected publications

PhysRev

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?

A. Einstein^*†, B. Podolsky^*, and N. Rosen^*

Phys. Rev., New Jersey. More Information can be found here , May 1935

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In a complete theory there is an element corresponding to each element of reality. A sufficient condition for the reality of a physical quantity is the possibility of predicting it with certainty, without disturbing the system. In quantum mechanics in the case of two physical quantities described by non-commuting operators, the knowledge of one precludes the knowledge of the other. Then either (1) the description of reality given by the wave function in quantum mechanics is not complete or (2) these two quantities cannot have simultaneous reality. Consideration of the problem of making predictions concerning a system on the basis of measurements made on another system that had previously interacted with it leads to the result that if (1) is false then (2) is also false. One is thus led to conclude that the description of reality as given by a wave function is not complete.