Dr Xingang Chen

Career

• 2009-date: Stephen Hawking Advanced Fellow, DAMTP, University of Cambridge 
• 2007-2009: Senior Research Associate, MIT
• 2006-2007: Postdoc, Cornell University
• 2003-2006: Postdoc, University of Florida

Research

Xingang Chen is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. His current research interests are theoretical cosmology, in particular, inflation and dark matter model building in field and string theory, and their observational consequences.

Selected Publications

• X. Chen, "Primordial features as evidence for inflation," arXiv:1104.1323.
• X. Chen, "Strongly coupled inflaton," arXiv:1010.2851.
• Review article: X. Chen, "Primordial non-Gaussianities from inflation models," arXiv:1002.1416.
• X. Chen and Y. Wang, "Large Non-Gaussianities with intermediate shapes from quasi-single field inflation," arXiv:0909.0496.
• X. Chen, R. Easther and E. A. Lim, "Generation and characterization of large non-Gaussianities in single field inflation," arXiv:0801.3295.
• X. Chen, M. x. Huang, S. Kachru and G. Shiu, "Observational signatures and non-Gaussianities of general single field inflation," arXiv:hep-th/0605045.
• X. Chen and S. H. Tye, "Heating in brane inflation and hidden dark matter," arXiv:hep-th/0602136.
• X. Chen, "Multi-throat brane inflation," arXiv:hep-th/0408084.