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Research in Formation

I am currently moving toward theoretical corporate finance.

My background in physics, statistics, and optimisation still shapes how I think, but the questions now becoming central are about debt, contracts, strategic interaction, and financing under uncertainty.

This page gathers one completed undergraduate thesis, the supervised directions I am now entering, and the questions I expect to carry forward.

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theoretical corporate finance
Undergraduate Thesis

One completed research training, and the closing work of my physics phase.

This section is not meant to keep the page anchored in my earlier field forever. It is here because one completed thesis-level work gives the transition its seriousness, weight, and intellectual continuity.

2025–2026 Physics · Optimisation · Inverse Problems

Towards Understanding and Optimising Ptychography for High-Performance Electron Microscopy

An undergraduate thesis that studies PtyRAD as a differentiable, physics-constrained reconstruction framework for electron ptychography. The work combines physical modelling with optimisation-aware analysis and examines how objective design, staged activation, batch geometry, and mixed-state flexibility shape reconstruction behaviour.

It is the most complete research work I have finished so far — a representative closing work of my physics phase, and the foundation that makes the next direction feel earned rather than declared.

Research Profile
Framework
PtyRAD as a differentiable, physics-constrained system
Method
Forward modelling, optimisation formulation, and controlled studies
Position in this page
A completed foundation — not the final centre, but the proof of serious training.
Thesis PDF ↗ Slides ↗ Poster ↗
Current Directions

Two supervised directions are now giving the transition its actual structure.

These are not presented as finished projects. They are the most concrete theoretical directions I am currently entering, with one line more central to my future field and the other functioning as a supporting training ground.

Current supervised direction · Prof. Zhaoli Jiang

Distressed financing, debt contracts, and liability management

Following: Creditor-on-Creditor Violence

This is the clearest bridge into my future work in theoretical corporate finance. Through this line, I am entering questions about liability management exercises, debt overhang, secured debt, and how contract design and creditor incentives shape efficiency in distress.

More central to the direction I expect to keep developing.
Paper anchor
Theoretical training line · Prof. Min Dai & Prof. Zhaoli Jiang

Strategic timing under uncertainty

Following: First- and Second-mover Advantages

This thread is a supporting but meaningful preparation line. It helps me enter dynamic games, mixed strategies, and strategic timing problems under uncertainty — formal tools I want to carry into later questions in finance rather than keep as an isolated track.

A theoretical training ground that supports the more central finance direction.
Paper anchor
Future Questions

The questions I expect to carry forward are becoming sharper.

This final layer is intentionally lighter than the thesis and direction sections. It is not a promise of finished work, only a clearer map of the problems and methods I expect to keep approaching next.

Q1
How should debt contracts allocate bargaining power when distressed financing is needed?
Debt, contracts, and creditor incentives are likely to remain central.
Q2
When do liability management exercises create value rather than merely redistribute it?
A future question shaped by current reading on LME and distressed restructuring.
Q3
Where can auction-theoretic tools sharpen financing and security-design problems?
Auction theory appears here as a future method, not yet a full current direction.
Q4
Which strategic corporate finance problems require dynamic game structure rather than static intuition?
A question carried forward from the timing and mixed-strategy training line.
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