Biography

Education Experience

• 2013 - 2020 | The Ohio State University | Condensed Matter Theory | Ph.D | (Supervisor: Yuan-Ming Lu)
• 2010 - 2013 | Nanjing University | Physics and mathematics | (Supervisor: Mingzhe Li (physics) and Xuejun Guo (math))
• 2006 - 2010 | Nanjing University | Physics | B.Sc.

Work Experience

• 2026 - -- | BIMSA | Assistant Professor
• 2024 - 2026 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Postdoc
• 2024 - 2024 | UC Davis | Postdoc
• 2020 - 2024 | UC San Diego | Postdoc

Publications

• [1] B Shi, Immersed figure-8 annuli and anyons, Annales Henri Poincaré, 27(1), 51-93 (2026)
• [2] M Buican, R Geiko, M Moses, B Shi, An Algebraic Theory of Gapped Domain Wall Partons, arXiv, 2506.22544 (2025)
• [3] S Vardhan, B Shi, IH Kim, Y Zou, Chirality, magic, and quantum correlations in multipartite quantum states, arXiv, 2503.10764 (2025)
• [4] X Li, TC Lin, J McGreevy, B Shi, Strict area law entanglement versus chirality, Physical Review Letters, 134(18), 180402 (2025)
• [5] IH Kim, X Li, TC Lin, J McGreevy, B Shi, Conformal geometry from entanglement, SciPost Physics, 18(3), 102 (2025)
• [6] B Shi, JL Huang, J McGreevy, Remote detectability from entanglement bootstrap I: Kirby’s torus trick, SciPost Physics, 18(4), 126 (2025)
• [7] TH Yang, B Shi, JY Lee, Topological mixed states: Axiomatic approaches and phases of matter, arXiv, 2506.04221 (2025)
• [8] IH Kim, TC Lin, D Ranard, B Shi, Strict area law implies commuting parent Hamiltonian, arXiv, 2404.05867 (2024)
• [9] IH Kim, X Li, TC Lin, J McGreevy, B Shi, Chiral Virasoro algebra from a single wavefunction, Annals of Physics, 471, 169849 (2024)
• [10] IH Kim, M Levin, TC Lin, D Ranard, B Shi, Universal lower bound on topological entanglement entropy, Physical Review Letters, 131(16), 166601 (2023)
• [11] JL Huang, J McGreevy, B Shi, Knots and entanglement, SciPost Physics, 14(6), 141 (2023)
• [12] IH Kim, B Shi, K Kato, VV Albert, Chiral central charge from a single bulk wave function, Physical Review Letters, 128(17), 176402 (2022)
• [13] Y Zou, B Shi, J Sorce, IT Lim, IH Kim, Modular Commutators in Conformal Field Theory, Physical Review Letters, 129(26), 260402 (2022)
• [14] IH Kim, B Shi, K Kato, VV Albert, Modular commutator in gapped quantum many-body systems, Physical Review B, 106(7), 075147 (2022)
• [15] B Shi, IH Kim, Domain wall topological entanglement entropy, Physical Review Letters, 126(14), 141602 (2021)
• [16] B Shi, IH Kim, Entanglement bootstrap approach for gapped domain walls, Physical Review B, 103(11), 115150 (2021)
• [17] B Shi, K Kato, IH Kim, Entanglement bootstrap program (2021)
• [18] B Shi, Verlinde formula from entanglement, Physical Review Research, 2(2), 023132 (2020)
• [19] B Shi, X Dai, YM Lu, Entanglement negativity at the critical point of measurement-driven transition, arXiv, 2012.00040 (2020)
• [20] B Shi, Anyon theory in gapped many-body systems from entanglement, The Ohio State University (2020)
• [21] B Shi, K Kato, IH Kim, Fusion rules from entanglement, Annals of Physics, 418, 168164 (2020)
• [22] B Shi, YM Lu, Characterizing topological order by the information convex, Physical Review B, 99(3), 035112 (2019)
• [23] B Shi, Seeing topological entanglement through the information convex, Physical Review Research, 1(3), 033048 (2019)
• [24] B Shi, YM Lu, Deciphering the nonlocal entanglement entropy of fracton topological orders, Physical Review B, 97(14), 144106 (2018)
• [25] F Lu, B Shi, YM Lu, Classification and surface anomaly of glide symmetry protected topological phases in three dimensions, New Journal of Physics, 19(7), 073002 (2017)
• [26] B Shi, S Raby, Basis invariant description of chemical equilibrium with implications for a recent axionic leptogenesis model, Physical Review D, 92(8), 085008 (2015)