I am an astronomer focusing on observational projects and have been observing with the largest telescopes over the world. One of the most exciting things to me is observing on the top of a mountain and pointing the telescope at a target which is quite far away from us in space-time. I am interested in observations from optical and near-infrared to submillimeter wavelength. I have over 30 nights observing experience on 8-10 meter class optical/near-infrared telescopes, over 80 nights of observing experience on 5-6.5 meter class telescopes, and over 60 nights of observing experience on 2 meter class telescopes. In addition, I also experienced with submillimeter observations with JCMT.

Selected Successful Observing Proposals (PI, Co-PI, or Technical Contact):


  • JWST Cycle 3, 263 hours, COSMOS-3D: A Legacy Spectroscopic/Imaging Survey of the Early Universe. Co-PI

  • JWST Cycle 3, 16 hours, Investigating an Extreme [OIII] Outflow Discovered in a Reionization-era Luminous Quasar. PI

  • JWST Cycle 3, Parallel 600 hours, SAPPHIRES: Slitless Areal Pure-Parallel High-Redshift Emission Survey. Co-PI

  • JWST Cycle 2, 45.3 hours, Mapping the Most Extreme Protoclusters in the Epoch of Reionization. Co-PI

  • JWST Cycle 1, 65.5/8.1 hours, A Comprehensive JWST View of the Most Distant Quasars Deep into the Epoch of Reionization. Co-PI & Contact

  • JWST Cycle 1, 6.0 hours, Monster in the Early Universe: Unveiling the Nature of a Dust Reddened Quasar Hosting a Ten-Billion Solar Mass Black Hole at z = 7.1. PI

  • JWST Cycle 1, 16.3/5.6 hours, Mapping a Distant Protocluster Anchored by a Luminous Quasar in the Epoch of Reionization. Co-PI

  • ALMA Cycle 9, 29.8 hours, The Assembly of the Earliest Massive Quasar Host Galaxies. PI

  • ALMA Cycle 9, 6.8 hours, A Multi-wavelength View of the Host Galaxy of the Earliest Supermassive Black Hole in the Universe. PI

  • ALMA Cycle 9, 99.9 hours, A SPectroscopic survey of biased halos In the Reionization Era (ASPIRE): An ALMA/JWST Quasar Legacy Redshift Survey. Co-PI

  • ALMA Cycle 8, 36.5 hours, The Assembly of the Earliest Massive Quasar Host Galaxies. PI

  • ALMA Cycle 8, 1.7 hours, Unveiling the Nature of a Dust-reddened Quasar Hosting a Ten-Billion Solar Mass Black Hole at z=7.1. PI

  • ALMA Cycle 6, 15.8 hours, ALMA Mapping of the Most Distant Proto-Cluster. PI

  • ALMA Cycle 6, 13.8 hours, A Magnified View of Black Hole/Galaxy Co-Evolution in the EoR. Science PI & Technical contact

  • ALMA Cycle 6, 5.7 hours, A Pilot Survey Towards the First Direct Black Hole Mass Measurements at z~5. Co-I and Technical contact

  • HST C27, 9 orbits, Probing SMBH/Galaxy Co-Evolution with a Gravitationally Lensed Quasar. PI

  • HST C26, 2 orbits, The Most Distant Gravitational Lensed Quasar at z=6.5. Science PI & Technical contact, DDT

  • VLT P109, 36.4 hours, Probing Cosmic Reionization and Supermassive Black Hole Growth with Three New Luminous z ∼ 7 Quasars. PI

  • Keck 19A-20A, 7 nights, Probing Cosmic Reionization with Newly Discovered z~7 Quasars. Science PI & Technical contact

  • Keck 18B, 2 nights, Probing Cosmic Reionization and Super-Massive Black Hole Growth with Newly Discovered z~7 Quasars. Science PI & Technical contact

  • Gemini 20A, 12.5 hours, Exploring Reionization-era Quasars: A Complete Near-IR Spectroscopic Survey of z ≳ 6.5 Quasar Sample. PI

  • Gemini 19B, 13.2 hours, Probing Cosmic Reionization with New z>6.5 Luminous Quasars. PI

  • Gemini 19A, 13.7 hours, Probing Cosmic Reionization and SMBH Growth with z~7 Quasars. Science PI & Technical contact

  • Gemini 18FT, 5.7 hours, Observations of Three Newly Discovered Quasars at z ~ 7. PI

  • Gemini 18FT, 10 hours, GNIRS Observations of Two Newly Discovered z>6.7 Quasars. PI

  • VLA 22A, 93.24 hours, A Multi-wavelength Quasar Legacy Survey: Radio Emission from the Earliest SMBHs. Co-I and Technical contact

  • VLA 19B, 13.8 hours, Probing ISM of the FIR Brightest Quasar Host at Reionization Era. PI

  • VLA 18A, 3.0 hours, Radio Continuum Emission from the Most Luminous Quasar Host. PI, DDT

  • Chandra Cycle 24, 200 ks, Unveiling the Nature of a Dust Reddened Quasar Hosting a Ten-Billion Solar Mass Black Hole at z=7.1. PI

  • XMM AO19, 70 ks, The Formation of the Most Massive Supermassive Black Hole at z=7.5. PI

  • XMM AO19, 130 ks, A Magnfied X-ray View of the Most Distant Lensed Quasar at z=6.5. Science PI & Technical contact

  • SOFIA Cycle 8,12.7 hours, Probing IR SED of a Bright, Gravitationally Lensed Quasar in the Reionization Epoch with SOFIA. PI

  • NOEMA 21S,9 hours, Unveiling the Nature of a Dust-reddened Quasar Hosting a Ten-Billion Solar Mass Black Hole at z=7.1. PI

  • NOEMA 19W , 24.0 hours, A Comprehensive Study of Quasar Host Galaxy at z>6.5. PI

  • NOEMA 19W , 10.5 hours, Characterizing the ISM and Gas Excitation in the Most Luminous Quasar. Co-PI

  • NOEMA 19S ,11 hours, Probing the ISM Properties of a Bright, Gravitationally Lensed Quasar Host. Co-PI

  • NOEMA 19W, 2.0 hours, FIR Properties of an Outstandingly Luminous Young Quasar. Co-PI, DDT

  • JCMT 17B-18B, 22 hours, Dust Emission in Luminous Quasars at z>6.5. PI

  • JCMT 18A, 2.0 hours, Dust Emission from the Most Luminous Quasar Host in the EoR. PI, DDT

  • JCMT 17B, 12 hours, Dust emission in Luminous Quasars at z>5. PI

  • Hale 5m, > 15 nights, Complete the uniform z~5.5 quasar sample. & Study black hole masses of luminous z~5 quasars. PI

  • LBT, > 15 nights, Probing Cosmic Reionization with New 6.5 ≤ z ≤ 7 Luminous Quasar Sample. PI

  • Magellan, > 20 nights, A Survey of Luminous Quasars at z>7. PI

  • MMT, > 20 nights, A Survey of Luminous Quasars at z>7. PI