Present

UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Ph.D. (candidacy) in Astrophysics, with focus on Cosmology
Dissertation: "Signatures of Topological Defects in the CMB"

April 2000

UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
M.S. in Astrophysics
Thesis: "Radiation from Spinning Buckyballs"

May 1997

Brown University, Providence, RI
B.S. in Physics, with focus on Astrophysics

Honors Thesis: "Using Weak Gravitational Lensing to Determine Large-Scale Structure Formation"

2001-2002

UCLA Honorary Outstanding Teaching Award

2001-2002

UCLA Research Mentor Fellowship

1999-2000

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award

1998-2002

Eugene Cota Robles Fellowship, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

1998

UCLA Astronomy Department Fellowship

1997

Induction to Sigma Xi, the Physics Honor Society

1998 - Present

Teaching Assistant, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Classes taught include:
Astronomy 115, Statistical Mechanics & Application to Astrophysics
Astronomy 7, Astronomy and the Media
Astronomy 5, Life in the Universe
Astronomy 4, Universe of Stars and Stellar Systems
Astronomy 2, Introduction to the Physical Universe

1994 - 1997

Teaching Assistant, Brown University, Providence, RI

Classes taught include:
Physics 24, Introduction to Astronomy
Physics 21, Introductory Astronomy

2001-2002

UCLA Astronomy Department Webmaster

2000-2002

UCLA Ocean Discovery Center: Public hour docent

1997-1998

Brown University WISE (Women In Science and Engineering): Advisor

1996-1997

Rhode Island Space Grant Outreach: K-12 Science Outreach

1996

Brown University Mikeljohn Advisor: Academic Peer Advisor

1994-1996

President of East Asian House (Brown University)

Present

UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Graduate Research Assistant: topological defects and the CMB.
Advisor: Edward L. Wright
Affiliated with the MAP project

1998-Present

UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Graduate Research Assistant: Buckyball radiation contamination of the Galactic background.
Advisor: Edward L. Wright
Affiliated with the MAP project

1997-1998

Brown University, Providence, RI

Research Assistant: design and build parts of the Fermilab D0 trigger electronics.
Advisor: Richard Partridge
Affiliated with the Brown Fermilab D0 group

1995-1997

Brown University, Providence, RI

Undergraduate Research Assistant: analyzed impact cratering simulation data, image processing.
Advisor: Peter Schultz
Affiliated with JPL and the Rhode Island Space Grant

Lo, Amy S., Miao, Chyi-Chang, Partridge, Richard. "Luminosity Monitor Technical Design Report" D0 Note 3320, Fermilab, Batavia, IL. Sept. 29 1997

Lo, Amy S. "Using Weak Gravitational Lensing to Determine Large-Scale Structure Formation" Senior Thesis, Brown University, Providence, RI. May 1997

1998-1999

Language Consultant: English-Chinese and Chinese-English translation.

Employer: NAPCA (National Asian Pacific Center on Aging), Seattle, WA., and Los Angeles, CA.

1997, Summer

ESL Teacher, Tops English Academy, Saitama, Japan

Human

Reading and basic speaking competency in French, and Japanese. Reading competency in classical Latin.

Translational competency in Chinese, dialects spoken include Mandarin, Cantonese, and Shanghainese.

Computer

Competency in IDL

Fluency in C++, html

Platforms: Unix, Windows