Who is Tailei Qi?
Tailei Qi is a Chinese man who attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. He worked on the optically trapped nanoparticle arrays and all kinds of their related fascinating phenomena.
“would like to make some new friends,” Qi wrote on Twitter on July 31, 2023. “I am a second-year PhD student, interested in nanoparticle synthesis, optical trapping, self-assembly, spectra analysis, and ML. a bit stupid in daily trifles, very enthusiastic talking about research. Reach me if inerest.”
Qi has experience in 2D transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) photodetectors, optical tweezers, microspectroscopy and 2G high temperature superconducting (HTS) superconductors. He is also interested in nanoparticle synthesis and self-assembly and machine learning.
In Qi’s free time, he enjoys, running, hiking and playing badminton, tennis and table tennis. Here are 13 more things about him:
- From September 2010 to July 2015, he attended Wuhan University (武汉大学)) in Wuhan, Hubei, China where he earned his bachelor’s degree in physics.
- From September 2012 to July 2014, he studied business administration and management at Wuhan University as a minor.
- From December 2015 to August 2017, he worked for the Suzhou Advanced Materials Research Institute in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China as a researcher.
- From August 2017 to April 2019, he worked for the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China as a research assistant.
- From September 2019 to December 2021, he attended Louisiana State University in in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA where he earned his master’s degree in material science.
- In January 2022, he entered the UNC-Chapel Hill as a research assistant and a graduate student at the university’s department of applied physical sciences and joined the Yan Research Group. His thesis supervisor was Zijie Yan, an associate professor at the university.
- On February 19, 2022, he wrote on Twitter, “Imagining computer simulation, if AI can investigate into their world, they may find their world are consisted of voltage fluctuations. The wave properties are not necessarily to be of the particles, but of the “materials” outside this world, like what data bits behave.”
- On August 1, 2022, he wrote on Twitter, “Bully in america seems to be a problem. It often comes with people not stopping them at the first time. Explanation is not a solution but makes them feel others will plead them every time they raise a problem, making them voyeur to find an excuse day and night.”
- On November 8, 2022, he wrote on Twitter, “Realize universities of the same rank in China and in US correspondingly have almost the same atmosphere. The mean level of students is almost the same. The only difference locates at their top students. Students from Chinese students all looks the same and limited distributed.”
- He, Yan and Fan Nan co-authored “Optical Binding of Metal Nanoparticles Self‐Reinforced by Plasmonic Surface Lattice Resonances”, which was published in Advanced Optical Materials in July 2023.
- Just after 1:00 p.m. on August 28, 2023, he allegedly fatally shot Yan at the UNC-Chapel Hill. At around 2:40 p.m., he was arrested near Williams Circle in Chapel Hill.
- On November 27, 2023, a judge ruled he was unfit for trial after two mental evaluations.
- He was 34 years old when the U.S. District Court released on January 18, 2024 documents that provide new details about him.
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