About

I am Bo-Yu Chen (陳柏諭), also known as Matt, a third-year undergraduate student double majoring in Physics and Computer Science at National Taiwan University.

I am currently a visiting student intern at Columbia Physics, working in the UNAQO / Yan Lab on building a new quantum simulation platform. I previously spent the 2025–2026 academic year as an exchange student in UIUC Physics and was affiliated with the Chin Lab at UChicago James Franck Institute.

My research interests include quantum simulation, neutral atom arrays, and machine learning. I have conducted research at Northwestern CS, UChicago PME, IQOQI Innsbruck, and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics.

Recent News

• Jan, 2026 Accepted as a visiting student intern at Columbia University (May 2026 - Feb 2027).
• Jan, 2026 Awarded the Dean’s List at Grainger College of Engineering, UIUC (Fall 2025).
• Dec, 2025 Finish the first exchange semester at UIUC, get 4.0 GPA from 16 credits of physics course! Rank 1/22 in grad-level Modern Atomic Physics final!
• Nov, 2025 Invited to participate Fermilab Quantum Symposium! First visit to National Lab. Welcome to drop me message if you’d like to connect.
• Oct, 2025 Awarded the Fu Bell Scholarship Again!
• Aug, 2025 My first day at UChicago (second time)!
• Aug, 2025 New preprint (Atommovr) on arxiv! The software is available here
• May, 2025 1 paper (Nonparametric Hopfield) accepted at ICML 2025!
• Apr, 2025 Admitted to MCQST summer bachelor program! Looking forward to visit Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and do amazing research at the Quantum Matter Interfaces lab with Johannes this summer!
• Mar, 2025 Awarded the Fu Bell Scholarship Again!
• Dec, 2024 Start my winter research at the Bernien lab @ Innsbruck! I am the first and only lab member here!
• Dec, 2024 Admitted to UIUC Physics as an exchange student (Fall 2025, Spring 2026)
• Nov, 2024 Awarded the College of Science Travel Grants and Scholarship
• Sep, 2024 Awarded the Presidential Award (Awarded to students ranking in the top 5%)
• Aug, 2024 Enrolled NTU CSIE for double major! (acceptance rate ~ 5% among NTU undergraduates)
• Jul, 2024 Our latest research poster “Dual-Species Neutral Atom Array 2.0: Towards a Versatile and Scalable Quanutm Processor” will appear at SIF fermi school, Varenna, Italy!
• Jun, 2024 Start my summer research in the Bernien lab (in person)!
• Apr, 2024 New preprint Nonparametric Hopfield on arxiv!
• Mar, 2024 Awarded the Fu Bell Scholarship Again!
• Feb, 2024 Awarded the UChicago-Taiwan Student Exchange (UCTS) Fellowship! Looking forward to visit University of Chicago and do amazing research at the Bernien lab with Hannes this summer!
• Jan, 2024 1 paper (STanHop) accepted at ICLR 2024!
• Jan, 2024 Our paper “On Sparse Modern Hopfield Model” was highlighted in Northwestern CS Department News!
• Jan, 2024 1 paper (Magnetoresistance in Transfer-Free Graphene) accepted at Nanotechnology Journal!
• Jan, 2024 New preprint STanHop on arxiv!
• Dec, 2023 Awarded the Fu Bell Scholarship (top 1% accross National Taiwan University)! News
• Sep, 2023 1 paper (Sparse Hopfield) accepted at NeurIPS 2023!
• Sep, 2023 1 paper (Quantum Material&Vacuum Annealing) accepted at Spin Journal!
• Sep, 2023 Enrolled NTU Physics as a freshman student!