Conner Chu

Hi! I am a third-year undergraduate at UC Berkeley studying physics and applied mathematics. Surprisingly, I actually entered university as a biology major interested in neuroscience. During that time, I found myself involved with Neurotech@Berkeley where I explored wetware computing. Seeking a more general understanding of reality, I switched to physics and applied mathematics in the second half of my first year. The following summer, I studied the dynamics of semiconductors using attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy under Professor Stephen Leone in the Leone Group. I then spent time with the Mu2e Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under Dr. Richard Bonventre working on detector calibration. Most recently, I was at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Germany working with Professor Maria Alessandra Papa and Dr. Benjamin Steltner searching for continuous gravitational waves. Recently, I've taken interest in applying the formalism of physics to fundamentally understand deep learning.