Jinchen He (何晋琛)

Jinchen He (何晋琛)

Postdoctoral Researcher at Fermilab

👁️‍🗨️ About Me

I am Jinchen He, a postdoctoral researcher in the theory group at Fermilab. My research focuses on lattice QCD, hadron structure, and AI for physics. I also have interests in philosophy and data science.

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Quotes & reflections

“The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.” — Steven Weinberg

“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea… and ideas are bulletproof.” — Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

曲终人不见 江上数青峰。— 钱起 《省试湘灵鼓瑟》

已识乾坤大，犹怜草木青。长空送鸟印，留幻与人灵。— 马一浮 《旷怡亭口占》

静心得意。

🔥 Research Interests

  • AI Physicist Not the trivial workflow of literature review, coding, and evaluation — but AI that autonomously discovers physical laws and patterns from data (see the compression challenge). If you are interested in this project, please contact me. I am looking for collaborators.
  • AI for HEP I have started an “AI for HEP” community on AlphaXiv, let me know if you are interested in joining.
  • Hadron Structure What is the non-perturbative structure inside hadrons, and how do QCD confinement states form?
  • Lattice QCD I am interested in applying lattice QCD to study the structure of hadrons, especially the proton.
  • Effective Field Theory Working with NRQED, HQET, SCET and LaMET.

📰 News & Updates

  • 2026.08 · New Position: I joined the theory group at Fermilab as a postdoctoral researcher in August 2026, working on lattice QCD and AI for physics.

  • 2025 · Accepted in NeurIPS Workshop: Our paper on Neural Transport Hybrid Monte Carlo (NTHMC) has been accepted to the NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Machine Learning for Physical Sciences. My first venture into AI conferences.

  • 2025.05.20 · New Preprint: Our research on LaMET’s asymptotic extrapolation was posted on arXiv. This work addresses fundamental questions in lattice QCD calculations. [arXiv:2505.14619]

  • USQCD Grant Awarded: Received USQCD support for our research on 3D imaging of the pion. [Pion3D]

5-Day Gen AI Intensive: I completed the 5-Day Generative AI Intensive Course with Google, with hands-on projects on Kaggle.

Certificate for the Google 5-Day Generative AI Intensive Course

📝 Publications

15 publications · 428 INSPIRE citations · INSPIRE-HEP

💬 Talks

Seminars

  • 2026.04.15 “3D Imaging of the Pion on a Fine Lattice”, Student Lunch Talk, Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. [slides]
  • 2026.03 “3D Imaging of the Pion on a Fine Lattice”, Rising Researcher Seminar, INT, Seattle, WA, U.S. [video] [slides]
  • 2025.10.15 “3D Imaging of the Pion on a Fine Lattice”, CFNS Seminar, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, U.S. [slides]
  • 2025.04 “Effective Field Theory for Positronium in Relativistic Motion”, Nuclear Theory Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, U.S. [slides]

Invited Talks

  • 2025.06 “3D Imaging of the Pion on a Fine Lattice”, CIPANP 2025, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, U.S. [slides]
  • 2024.04 “3D Imaging of the Pion on a Fine Lattice”, USQCD All-Hands Meeting 2024 (Online). [slides]
  • 2023.06 “Unpolarized Nucleon TMDPDFs from LQCD”, TMD workshop 2023, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, U.S.

Contributed Talks

  • 2026.07.28 “Proton TMDPDFs from Lattice QCD: Spin Dependence of the Non-perturbative Transverse Structure”, Lattice 2026, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, U.S. [slides]
  • 2026.07.22 “Proton TMDPDFs from Lattice QCD: Spin Dependence of the Non-perturbative Transverse Structure”, Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) 2026, Fermilab, Batavia, IL, U.S. [slides]
  • 2026.07.08 “Proton TMDPDFs from Lattice QCD: Spin Dependence of the Non-perturbative Transverse Structure”, 2026 Meeting on Lattice Parton Physics from Large Momentum Effective Theory (LaMET 2026) (Online), Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland. [slides]
  • 2025.09.19 “Nucleon Parton Distribution Functions from Boosted Correlators in CG”, QGT Topical Collaboration Meeting, Argonne, U.S. [slides]
  • 2025.07.15 “3D Imaging of the Pion on a Fine Lattice”, New Perspectives 2025, Fermilab, U.S. [slides]
  • 2025.03 “Nucleon PDFs from boosted correlators in CG”, APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics (GHP2025), Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA, U.S. [slides]
  • 2024.09 “Systematic Uncertainties from Gribov Copies in CG-Fixed Correlation Functions”, QGT meeting 2024, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, U.S. [slides]
  • 2024.08.14 “Systematic Uncertainties from Gribov Copies in Lattice Calculation of Quasi-distributions in the Coulomb Gauge”, LaMET 2024, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, U.S. [slides]
  • 2023.05 “Nucleon TMDPDFs from Lattice QCD”, Pheno 2023, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.
  • 2022.12 “Unpolarized Transverse-Momentum-Dependent Parton Distributions from Lattice QCD”, 2022 Meeting on Lattice Parton Physics from Large-Momentum Effective Theory, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, U.S.
  • 2021.12 “Pion and Kaon Distribution Amplitudes with LaMET”, 2021 Meeting on Lattice Parton Physics from Large-Momentum Effective Theory(Online). [video]
  • 2021.11 “Distribution amplitudes from lattice QCD with large momentum effective theory”, International Workshop on Heavy Quark Physics(Webinar), National Centre for Physics Islamabad, Pakistan.

Other Presentations

  • 2024.05 “Data Analysis Basis in Lattice QCD”, LPC group meeting, Online. [video in Chinese]

Posters

  • 2026.08.04–06 (meeting dates) “Mapping the 3D Parton Structures of Hadrons with Lattice QCD”, 2026 SciDAC Principal Investigator (PI) Meeting, Hilton Washington DC/Rockville Hotel & Executive Meeting Center, USA. [poster]

📖 Education

  • 2022.09 - 2026.07, University of Maryland, College Park, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Physics [thesis] [defense slides]
  • 2020.01 - 2020.06, University of California, Berkeley, Exchange student in Physics
  • 2017.09 - 2021.06, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Physics

📄 Appointments

  • 2026.08 - 2029.08, Postdoctoral Researcher, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
  • 2024.08 - 2026.07, Research Assistant, Argonne National Laboratory
  • 2022.09 - 2026.07, Graduate Assistant, University of Maryland, College Park
  • 2021.07 - 2022.07, Research Assistant, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

📒 Notes

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