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Zhenyu He · Jobs Stroustrup
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Group photograph of attendees at the Princeton Program on Science and Global Security, October 2024, including Zhenyu He and senior scholar Frank von Hippel.

Princeton SGS · invited talk · October 2024

贺震昱 Zhenyu He Jobs Stroustrup

Physicist-turned-researcher-and-entrepreneur. Berkeley, CA.

Where I am, in 2026

I am a physicist by training, a researcher by craft, and — cautiously, on the side — an entrepreneur. After concluding the UC Berkeley EPS PhD program with a Master’s degree in February 2026, I am based in Berkeley, CA, with two main tracks: a seven-year research stack across PKU, Caltech, and UC Berkeley (inverse problems, fluid dynamics & HPC, satellite remote sensing, climate dynamics) and the strategic-relations work that comes with the company below.

Passive shareholder + passive participant @ TerraByte Intelligence (YC Spring 26). Customer focus is typed-only: a Fortune-500-class hospitality client and an SSE-500-class agribusiness client. For product details, please refer to TerraByte’s own channels.

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On the byline “Jobs Stroustrup”

贺震昱 是我的本名（出生于北京）。Jobs Stroustrup 是 2021 年起在 GitHub 上沿用至今的笔名，致敬两位影响我做事方式最深的工程哲学家：Steve Jobs 让我相信"产品的美学也是一种伦理"— 哪怕是一段命令行脚本、一份会议纪要，把外观和体验做对都不是奢侈；Bjarne Stroustrup（C++ 之父）则一再示范了"在不破坏旧抽象的前提下扩展能力"是一项需要长年克制的手艺。两个名字指向同一个人：研究上严谨，写作上诚实，生活上克制。

Zhenyu He is my legal name (born in Beijing). Jobs Stroustrup is a GitHub-era nom de plume I adopted in 2021, paying quiet homage to two engineering philosophers whose temperaments I keep returning to: Steve Jobs, who convinced me that the aesthetics of a thing — even a shell script or a meeting note — are not a luxury but a kind of ethics; and Bjarne Stroustrup (the creator of C++), whose career is the steady demonstration that extending capability without breaking older abstractions is a craft that takes decades of restraint. Both names point to the same person: rigorous in research, honest in writing, restrained in life.

Timeline

Began undergraduate at Peking University — Physics + NSD Economics double degree.
Joined Ji Nie’s group; first long research report (43 slides) on tropical circulation.
Self-organized rural-elementary teaching mission in Qishan, Shaanxi.
Caltech / UCR DSCOVR MCMC retrieval; PKU Walker circulation manuscript drafted.
PKU graduation (Top 3% Physics, Top 1% NSD); began UC Berkeley EPS PhD with David Romps.
Berkeley Romps Lab — Nuclear-winter LES Phase 1–3.
Princeton SGS invited talk on extreme-convection physics; Berkeley Fung Lab methane mapping.
Romps Lab Phase 4 production runs (8 × 46k core-hours on Lawrencium); Phase 4.5 SWTG diagnostic.
Concluded UC Berkeley PhD program with Master’s degree; began Berkeley-based independent research and writing.
Joined TerraByte Intelligence as a passive shareholder + passive participant — separate from the research track.

People I have collaborated with

“Collaborated with” framing only — advisor framings follow public faculty-page conventions.

  • David Romps

    UC Berkeley, EPS

    Collaborated with at UC Berkeley EPS (2022–2025); atmospheric physics, plume LES.

  • Inez Fung

    UC Berkeley

    Collaborated with on methane MRV (2023–2024); founding scientist of the IPCC.

  • Yuk L. Yung

    Caltech, GPS

    Collaborated with as an undergraduate (2021–2022); single-pixel atmospheric retrieval and regularization.

  • King-Fai Li

    UC Riverside

    Collaborated with on the DSCOVR project (2021–2022); Bayesian inverse-problem methodology.

  • Frank von Hippel

    Princeton SGS

    Senior scholar in attendance at the 2024-10 invited talk on extreme-convection physics.

  • Ji Nie & Jing Li

    Peking University, School of Physics

    Undergraduate research collaborations: Walker circulation (2019–2021) and aerosol joint retrieval (2021–2022).

Resume

Single-PDF resume, generated from this site.

Download Resume_Zhenyu_He.pdf

Listening corner

Four classical recordings I keep returning to while I write or run sims. Files are hosted locally; play in-page or open in a new tab.

  • Beethoven Wilhelm Kempff

    Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata" — III. Allegro ma non troppo

  • Beethoven Rudolf Serkin

    Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique" — I. Grave – Allegro di molto e con brio

  • Beethoven Rudolf Serkin

    Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique" — II. Adagio cantabile

  • Beethoven Rudolf Serkin

    Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight" — I. Adagio sostenuto

Contact

Email is the best channel.

hezhenyu2000@gmail.com