Career

• 2025-present: Herchel Smith Research Fellow, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
• 2025-present: College Research Associate, St John's College, University of Cambridge
• 2022-2025: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• 2019-2022: PhD in Physics, King's College London
• 2017-2019: MPhil in Physics, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (degree conferred in 2020)
• 2013-2017: BSc in Physics, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Research

Gravitational-wave astronomy, cosmology

Selected Publications

• Analytic and accurate approximate metrics for black holes with arbitrary rotation in beyond-Einstein gravity using spectral methods, Kelvin Ka-Ho Lam, A.K.W.Chung, and Nicolás Yunes, arXiv: 2510.05208
• Near-Extremal Black Holes in Modified Gravity via Spectral Methods, Kelvin Ka-Ho Lam, A.K.W.Chung, and Nicolás Yunes, arXiv: 2509.07061
• Probing quadratic gravity with black-hole ringdown gravitational waves measured by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detectors, A.K.W.Chung and Nicolás Yunes, arXiv: 2506.14695
• Quasinormal mode frequencies and gravitational perturbations of spinning black holes in modified gravity through METRICS: The dynamical Chern-Simons gravity case, A.K.W.Chung, Kelvin Ka-Ho Lam, and Nicolás Yunes, Phys. Rev. D 111, 124052, https://doi.org/10.1103/g83n-rrlj
• The Stochastic Siren: Astrophysical Gravitational-Wave Background Measurements of the Hubble Constant, Bryce Cousins, Kristen Schumacher, A.K.W.Chung, Colm Talbot, Thomas Callister, Daniel E. Holz, Nicolás Yunes, arXiv: 2503.01997
• Bayesian Search of Massive Scalar Fields from LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Binaries, Yiqi Xie, A.K.W.Chung, Thomas P. Sotiriou, and Nicolás Yunes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 191402, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.191402
• Quasinormal mode frequencies and gravitational perturbations of black holes with any subextremal spin in modified gravity through METRICS: The scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity case, A.K.W.Chung and Nicolás Yunes, Phys. Rev. D 110, 064019, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.110.064019
• Ringing Out General Relativity: Quasinormal Mode Frequencies for Black Holes of Any Spin in Modified Gravity, A.K.W.Chung and Nicolás Yunes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 181401, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.181401
• Spectral method for metric perturbations of black holes: Kerr background case in general relativity, A.K.W.Chung, Pratik Wagle, Nicolas Yunes, Phys. Rev. D 109, 044072, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.044072
• Untargeted Bayesian search of anisotropic gravitational-wave backgrounds through the analytical marginalization of the posterior, A.K.W.Chung and Nicolás Yunes, Phys. Rev. D 108, 043032, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.108.043032
• Targeted search for the kinematic dipole of the gravitational-wave background, A.K.W.Chung, Alexander C. Jenkins, Joseph D. Romano, Mairi Sakellariadou, Phys. Rev. D 106, 082005, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.082005
• Lensing of gravitational waves as a novel probe of graviton mass, A.K.W.Chung and Tjonnie G.F Li, Phys. Rev. D 104, 124060, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.124060
• Tests of general relativity with binary black holes from the second LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalog, LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Phys. Rev. D 103, 122002, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.122002
• Tests of general relativity with the binary black hole signals from the LIGO-Virgo catalog GWTC-1, LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Phys. Rev. D 100, 104036, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.104036