In my perspective, service work is an indispensable part of my academic career for building long-lasting relationships and sharing ideas with colleagues in the department, university, and scientific community. The advancement of a community relies on the contribution from each individual member. I have always been committing part of my time to provide service work to the department and nuclear physics community since joining the faculty in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University in 2012.
As a junior faculty, I focus all my service work at the departmental level.
I have been a member of graduate admission committee since 2012. Every year, we receive numerous graduate applications from applicants in Mainland China. My insights
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The nuclear physics community has conducted a long-range planning exercise in 2014--2015 to identify opportunities and priorities for advancing the nuclear science in the next decade.
Such an exercise was usually performed every several years upon requests from the US DOE and NSF to coordinate future direction of nuclear physics research.
I was invited to be a principle author of {\it ``The Hot QCD White Paper: Exploring the
Phases of QCD at RHIC and the LHC.''} This is an important document drafted by leading scientists in the field of Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics to summarize past achievements and lay out future opportunities. The purpose of this document is to provide main inputs to the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC) to make recommendations to the future programs of the field.
The outcome of the long-range planning exercise is crucial to the fates of our research activities at major heavy ion accelerator facilities such as RHIC and the LHC, as well as the construction of a possible Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) in the