Hi! I’m Samuel Li. I'm currently a PhD candidate in atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics in the Cheuk Lab at Princeton University. My research focuses on ultracold calcium monofluoride (CaF) molecules trapped in optical tweezer arrays, with potential long-term applications in quantum simulation or quantum computation.
I completed my undergraduate degree in mathematics, physics, and computer science at the University of Toronto. During my senior year, I ran an experiment in the Vutha lab to grow cryogenic neon crystals doped with barium monofluoride (BaF:Ne), and study their optical and magnetic spectra. These developments could be useful for future endeavours to measure the electron electric dipole moment (eEDM) using molecules trapped in solids.
Put simply, I like to solve problems and learn as broadly as possible. I’ve worked with everything from video production to machine learning to machining to differential geometry, and if there’s one thing I learned, it’s that learning is never wasted. It’s not about the subject, it’s about the ideas. And ideas are cross-domain.
I first put up this website in July 2018 as a learning project, picking up React in the process. I had been programming for over a decade, but mainly for back-end applications, so I decided to give web development a shot. What you’re seeing is the product of one of my many “don’t know that yet, might as well try” journeys.
If I don’t know something, I’ll just learn it — and by now, I’ve gotten a lot of experience doing that.
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