He Jia (贾赫)

5th Year Graduate Student at Princeton Astrophysics.

Hello! My name is He Jia (贾赫, pronounced as /hɜ: dʒɑ:/ in Chinese, which roughly means famous businessman 😅). Born in Jingmen, Hubei in 1998, I moved to Shenzhen, Guangdong in 2008 with my family, until I went to Beijing for college in 2016 and then Princeton, New Jersey for graduate school in 2020 (physically in 2021 though, due to the pandamic).

I am broadly interested in using advanced statistical techniques to optimally extract information from astrophysical data, with the goal of driving new discoveries. While I was initially trained as a cosmologist, a field I continue to actively contribute to, my research has expanded to include black holes since graduate school. My focus on these two areas stems from the vast amounts of increasingly precise data being generated by ongoing and upcoming projects, where sophisticated statistical and machine learning models are crucial for unlocking the deeper insights that would otherwise remain inaccessible. Beyond cosmology and black holes, I am also open to exploring new science areas depending on where the most exciting science opportunities are.