#108, 70 Amherst St [email protected] Longzhi Tan Cambridge, MA, 02142 617-797-1581 EDUCATION Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology GPA: 5.0 / 5.0, Minor in Biology. Class of 2012. 2009 - School of Physics, Peking University GPA: 3.92 / 4.00, ranked 1st in 192 students 2008 - 2009 First Prize in 6th Jiangzehan Cup Mathematical Contest in Modeling 2009 HONORS Full (50,000 RMB) Freshmen Fellowship of Peking University 2008 Gold Medal The Absolute Winner (the highest total score) The Highest Score in the Theoretical Exam 39th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO), Hanoi, Vietnam 2008 Gold Medal 9th Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO), Ulan Bator, Mongolia 2008 First Prize in 24th Chinese Physics Olympiad (CPhO) 2008 RESEARCH As one of the first members in Prof. Jeff Gore’s lab in Department of Physics, MIT, I have been working on three projects: i. Reverse evolution on an experimental fitness landscape of bacterial antibiotic resistance. ii. Effect of slow environmental changes on reverse evolution using a computational approach. iii. Evolutionary dynamics of chemical warfare between colicin-producing strains. Fall 2009 - Simulate electron states in finite-size crystals using vibration modes of finite strings, under the instruction of Prof. Kun Xun in Center for Teaching Fundamental Physics Experiments, Peking University. Spring 2009 CONFERENCE Contributed talk; Winner of undergraduate travel award American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting 2011, Dallas, TX Mar. 2011 Poster presenter; Winner of travel award 4th q-bio Conference on Cellular Information Processing, Santa Fe, NM Aug. 2010 SKILLS C, C++ and MATLAB programming; L A T E X ; Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash ACTIVITIES Volunteer teacher at rural schools in Xiaoyi, Shanxi, China Summer 2009 in the annual program led by Love Heart Society of Peking University In charge of “Singing with the Empty-Nesters” in Love Heart Society to relieve former professors’s loneliness of not living with their children Fall 2008 - Spring 2009 PUBLICATIONS Hidden randomness between fitness landscapes limits reverse evolution Tan L., Stephen S., Chao HX., and Gore J. Physical Review Letters, in press (2011) Slowly switching between environments facilitates reverse evolution in small populations Tan L., and Gore J. (in preparation).