Huiyi (Cheryl) Wang
Ph.D. Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal
I am currently a Ph.D. student at McGill University working with Professor Guillaume Durandau on musculoskeletal modeling and reinforcement learning-driven body segment simulations.
Previously, I completed my Master's Candidate at Trottier Space Institute at McGill working with Professor Nicolas Cowan and Professor Eve Lee on the formation of Earth-like terrestrial planets. I also took part in ESA Ariel Mission planning on exoplanet observations during Summer 2023.
I graduated from UCLA with an Astrophysics, B.S. Honor degree in 2021 with a Thesis with Professor Smadar Naoz.
Research Interests
My current work focuses on modeling human body movement with muscle-driven simulations with reinforcement learning.
My work at TSI focuses on the birth of terrestrial planet formation by looking at the isotopic composition of Neon in Earth's deep plume mantle, which is shown to display primordial solar nebular imprints. I aim to constrain the atmospheric profile and magma ocean properties of terrestrial planet embryos and look at the physical conditions of early solar nebular.
I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2021, in which I worked with Professor Smadar Naoz on my thesis project. In this project, I focused on the dynamics of compact object binaries within the Galactic Center and their potential Gravitational-Wave emissions. Expanding on previous studies, my group has shown that black hole binaries and white dwarf binaries are the most prominent sources of GW via the Eccentric Kozai-Lidov induced merger channel.
Publications
Wang, H., Stephan, A. P., Naoz, S., Hoang, B.-M., and Breivik, K., “Gravitational-wave Signatures from Compact Object Binaries in the Galactic Center”, The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 917, no. 2, 2021. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac088d.