Curriculum Vitae
Education
| Degree | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|
| PhD in Physics, Specializing in Physical Oceanography | UC San Diego | 2025 |
| MS in Physics with Distinction, Specializing in Condensed Matter Theory | CSU Northridge | 2018 |
| Master of Music in Piano Performance | University of Kansas | Completed 24 units, 2011-2012 |
| Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance | Azusa Pacific University | 2011 |
Grants and Awards
- Office of Naval Research Grant (2024)
- Mack I. Johnson Research Award for Outstanding Graduate Student in the College of Science and Mathematics (2018)
- C. Y. Liang Outstanding Graduate Student Award (2018)
- Leslie and Terry Cutler Scholarship (2017)
- Summer Research Grant (2016)
Teaching and Mentorship
Lab Teaching Assistant Coordinator at UCSD (2022-2024)
Oversaw the PHYS 1-series labs. Supervised TAs, held office hours, participated in curriculum creation.
Teaching Assistant at UCSD (2018-2022)
Taught PHYS 1BL, 2BL, 2D, 10, and 140A. Lab Teaching Assistant Coordinator (LTAC/Head TA) of PHYS 2BL in Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Summer I 2021, and Spring 2022.
Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services Learning Center Instructor (2013-2016)
In my role as an instructor at Hathaway-Sycamores, I tutored K-12 students in language arts, math, and the sciences within the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). In addition to weekday tutoring sessions, I served as the math instructor for the Hathaway-Sycamores Summer SAT Workshop, which was organized in partnership with three local high schools from 2014 to 2016. I reprised this role as an SAT instructor in 2017 and 2018 as a volunteer.
Publications
M. Lee and S. G. Llewellyn Smith, “Stability of SQG Kolmogorov Flow”, https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10904, Nov. 2025, submitted.
M. Lee and S. G. Llewellyn Smith, “SQG point vortex dynamics with order Rossby corrections”, Eur. J. Mech. B Fluids 118, 204467 (2026).
S.-S. Gong, W. Zheng, M. Lee, Y.-M. Lu, and D. N. Sheng, “Chiral spin liquid with spinon Fermi surfaces in the spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ triangular Heisenberg model”, Phys. Rev. B 100, 241111 (2019).
M. Lee, T. R. Look, S. P. Lim, and D. N. Sheng, “Many-body localization in spin chain systems with quasiperiodic fields”, Phys. Rev. B 96, 075146 (2017).
Talks and Presentations
“SQG point vortex dynamics with order Rossby corrections”, Workshop on Numerical and Theoretical Advances in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics and nonlinear PDE Systems, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Feb. 2026.
“Stability of SQG Kolmogorov flow with order Rossby corrections”, SoCal Fluids XVII, University of California, Irvine, CA, Apr. 2024.
“Spin Liquid and Quantum Phase Diagram on a Spin-Orbit Coupled Triangular Lattice”, International Conference on Magnetism, San Francisco, CA, July 2018.
“Spin Liquid and Quantum Phase Diagram on a Spin-Orbit Coupled Triangular Lattice”, APS March Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, Mar. 2018.
“Topological Insulators”, Physics Symposium, California State University, Northridge, CA, July 2017.
“Many-Body Localization in Spin Chain Systems with Quasiperiodic Fields”, CSUNposium, California State University, Northridge, CA, Apr. 2017.
Contact
- Email: [email protected]