Areas of Focus
- Hadron physics experiments
- Particle detector construction
- Quantum chromodynamics (QCD)
- Nucleon interactions
- Short Range Correlations (SRC)
- EMC effects
- Experimental exploration of physics beyond the Standard Model
- Detector technology applications in medical imaging
Work Experience
- 2023-Present - Tsinghua University, Department of Physics - Associate Professor
- 2021-2023 - Tsinghua University, Department of Physics - Assistant Professor
- 2020-2021 - Canon USA Medical Imaging R&D - Senior Detector Scientist
- 2019-2020 - Canon USA Medical Imaging R&D - Detector Scientist
- 2018-2019 - Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Senior Research Associate
- 2015-2018 - Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Postdoctoral Researcher
- 2013-2015 - Duke University, USA - Postdoctoral Researcher, Collaborative Supervisor: Prof. Haiyan Gao
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2013 PhD: University of Virginia, Supervisor: Prof. Donal B. Day
- 2005 Bachelor: Lanzhou University
Publications
- Revealing the short-range structure of the mirror nuclei 3H and 3He, Hall-A Tritium Collaboration, S. Li, R. Cruz-Torres, N. Santiesteban, Z. H. Ye, et. al., 2022
- Measurement of the Nucleon F2n/F2p Structure Function Ratio by the Jefferson Lab MARATHON Tritium/Helium-3 Deep Inelastic Scattering Experiment, Hall-A Tritium Collaboration, 2022
- Electron-Ion Collider in China, EicC Collaboration, 2021
- Novel observation of isospin structure of short-range correlations in calcium isotopes, Hall-A Collaboration, D. Nguyen, Z. Ye, et. al, 2020
- A small proton charge radius from an electron–proton scattering experiment, PRAD Collaboration, W. Xiong, et.al., 2019
- Proton charge radius extraction from electron scattering data using dispersively improved chiral effective field theory, J. M. Alarcon, D. Higinbotham, C. Weiss, Z. Ye, 2019
- Search for three-nucleon short-range correlations in light nuclei, Hall-A Collaboration, Z. Ye, et al., 2018
- Proton and neutron electromagnetic form factors and uncertainties, Z. Ye, et al., 2018
- Unveiling the Tensor Charge of the Nucleon at Jefferson Lab, Z. Ye, et al., 2017
- Proton Remains Puzzling, H. Gao, T. Liu, C. Peng, Z. Ye, Z. W. Zhao, 2015
