Harvey Tian · 田世豪

Summary

Editor and founder behind Tian2 (田二), a warm editorial education publisher. I coach high-school students through the world's most demanding science competitions and research programs — Regeneron ISEF, the Regeneron Science Talent Search, the S.-T. Yau (丘成桐) Science Award, the Thermo Fisher Junior Innovators Challenge, the British Physics Olympiad, the Princeton University Physics Competition, and the major US/UK olympiads — then publish the books, worked solutions, and essays that make hard ideas reachable. My research background is in computational plasma physics (Cornell, Sandia, Argonne). I serve as a Regeneron ISEF Grand Award Judge in Physics & Astronomy, a Conrad Challenge Grand Judge, and a PUPC Problem Creator. The Tian2 catalogue spans 52 competition playbooks, 41 AP study guides, 29 typeset solution volumes, and a 213-page bilingual S.-T. Yau white paper — all set in one editorial system of cream and ink. Bilingual (EN/ZH).

Education

Research Experience

Roles & Positions

Teaching & Mentoring

• Pure mathematics (Yau-level) — Riemann–Liouville fractional integral of Lipschitz functions; manuscript complete; two-paper Yau portfolio with MIT PRIMES alignment.
• Materials chemistry (ISEF) — GO–PLA biodegradable composite for water filtration; Langmuir qₘ = 197 mg/g; ISEF-level poster and presentation.
• Computational plasma physics — discontinuous-Galerkin / Hall-MHD magnetic-reconnection simulation; full thesis and poster to ISEF standard.
• Machine learning / astronomy — ML exoplanet detection on Kepler + TESS data (transformer + random forest); competed at LACSEF with ROC / confusion-matrix validation.
• Crowd-dynamics simulation — social-force + floor-field pedestrian-evacuation model in bespoke Python; ISEF standard.
• Computer vision / segmentation — real-time semantic segmentation for autonomous driving (Cityscapes, >30 fps); CVPR-template paper draft.
• Causal machine learning — PC-algorithm causal discovery on CDC BRFSS 2014–23 data for cancer risk; F1 = 0.942; science-fair competed.
• Electrocatalysis — electrocatalytic nitrate-to-ammonia (N-reduction); presented at regional and state science fair (2025).
• Cancer immunology / epigenetics — FTO m⁶A-demethylase targeting in NSCLC; ISEF 2027 and Yau 2026 targets.

Anonymized archetypes; student identities withheld. Named, consented outcomes available on request.

Products & Editorial

Each title published in Student, Advisor, and Format editions (HTML / PDF / EPUB). Coverage spans Mathematics (10), Physics (6), Astronomy (1), Biology (4), Chemistry (2), CS & Informatics (6), Economics & Business (8), Essay & Writing (6), Linguistics (2), History (1), Research & Science-Fair (3), and Engineering / Health / Quiz (4). Flagship: the fully QA-validated John Locke Essay Guide.

Dual-derivation, SymPy-verified FRQ solutions with clean-room original practice items — 349 pages and 283 unit records across the built static site.

• S.-T. Yau (丘成桐) High School Science Award White Paper — ~213 pp, bilingual (ZH primary / EN parallel); seven chapters covering award structure, per-subject hot topics and winning-paper analysis, research and paper-writing method, judge-background analysis, 2020–2025 winners data, a self-evaluation framework, and AI-use compliance.
• STS AI-Evaluator — Regeneron STS applications; four-criterion rubric (/20) with research cross-reference and AI-content detection.
• JIC Evaluator — Thermo Fisher Junior Innovators Challenge; adapted from the STS engine, with a 42-application Physics evaluation conducted.
• EPQ Grader — Pearson Edexcel EPQ (AO1–AO4); ML-based auto-scoring with an A/B/C exemplar bank.

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Awards & Service