Hi, I’m Amelie! I graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a B.S. in Physics with Honors, and I have over five years of experience teaching and tutoring students in mathematics and science. At Hopkins, I worked as a Learning Assistant for general physics lectures and labs, supporting over 100 students with problem solving, lab work, and Python. I also tutored one-on-one through the Learning Den, working with 15+ students across Calculus I–III, Linear Algebra, and Differential Equations. My approach is collaborative and encouraging. I focus not just on finding the right answer, but on helping students understand why a solution works, so they can tackle similar problems with confidence on their own.
Outside of physics, I’m an animator, filmmaker, comic artist, composer, and musician, and much of my creative work blends science with visual storytelling. I’ve taught science through art and comics in a quantum physics workshop at the University of Maryland, presented live astronomy shows at the Maryland Science Center, created educational animations for the Shanghai Astronomy Museum, and supported middle school science classes in physics, chemistry, and biology. I love finding unexpected ways to make a complicated idea feel familiar, visual, and easy to grasp.
Having received generous support from teachers and professors throughout my own education, I see tutoring as a way to pass that on. My goal is to help students feel supported rather than discouraged when a subject gets hard, and to give them the patience and confidence to keep working through it. As I’ve learned in physics: small changes, given enough time, can lead to something transformative.
College:
Education: Johns Hopkins University
Undergrad Major: B.S. Physics
High School:
Class Rank: Top 1%
Awards & Honors: 2021 Principal Award
Interests & Activities: I was a professional musical theatre actor, performing as Louisa in the Chinese production of The Sound of Music, which toured 36 cities nationally. Other roles included Cats, Mulan, A Chorus Line, and Violet Rabbit, and I worked backstage on Peter and the Starcatcher and In Search of the Sound. I also gave a TEDx talk, "The Eternal Ring," at TEDxWukangRoad, which was voted Audience Favorite.
AP Exams: IB Exam: 45/45
Other:
Other Awards: Louis Sudler Prize (2026): Awarded to the most outstanding undergraduate artist across JHU's divisions, Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund Fellow (2025–2027): $14,000 development grant for my animated film The Sound of Amelie, Dean's List, all semesters at JHU, Film Festival Official Selections: Maryland Film Festival, JHU & MICA Film Festival, Baltimore Film Summit, and New Jersey Animation Film Festival, Musician: Singer-songwriter and contract artist with Tencent Music Entertainment Group; 50+ original songs with millions of streams worldwide
Other Interests & Activities: At JHU, I was involved in musical theatre (Second Chair Violinist), performing biannual concerts (Hopkins Concert Orchestra) with repertoire including Beethoven, Mahler, Bruch, and Rachmaninoff, animation, digital filmmaking, music production, orchestra, and science communication.
Outside music and film, I'm a comic artist with several original series exploring memoir and science communication, including The Everlasting April and Me and My Theoretical Physics Professor Oleg. I've also worked as a research assistant on a cosmology instrumentation project (CLASS) and in a lab studying magnetotactic bacteria. My science outreach work includes serving as a bilingual docent at the Shanghai Astronomy Museum, where I led public tours and lectures on the history of telescopes, and as a planetarium presenter at the Maryland Science Center, where I presented shows on constellations and the universe.
Location: Princeton, NJ
