Yun-Ao Xiao / Academic profile

Education

My academic training is also listed on ORCID.

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ph.D. student in Astrophysics

September 2025 – present

Research institution: National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC).

Advisor: Prof. Hu Zou

Research interests: stellar streams and Galactic archaeology, survey astrometry, asteroid activity monitoring, and time-domain survey pipelines.

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, M.S. in Astrophysics

September 2022 – July 2025

Research institution: National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC).

Advisor: Prof. Hu Zou

Research: wide-field surveys, deep proper motions, stellar streams, and the Galactic dark matter halo.

Yunnan University, B.S. in Astronomy, Minor in Computer Science

September 2018 – July 2022

Advisor: Prof. Bingqiu Chen

Thesis: Photometric Re-calibration of VPHAS+ u-band Photometry with the Stellar Colour Regression Method