Shih-Fang's name is written 葉士房 in traditional Chinese; he also goes by Yesfun. His Master's thesis was advised by Mao-Pei Tsui (崔茂培) of National Taiwan University, with title Einstein Field Equations with Hessian energy-momentum tensor. Between 2017--2018 Shih-Fang worked as a research assistant to Prof. Tsui at the National Center for Theoretical Science, Taipei, Taiwan. Shih-Fang arrived at East Lansing and began as a PhD candidate in 2018 under the supervision of Prof. Willie Wong.