• 2024-present, Associate Professor, University of Utahs
• 2018-2024, Assistant Professor, University of Utah
• 2015-2018, Postdoc, MCTP, University of Michigan
• 2012-2015, Research Associate, SITP/SLAC, Stanford University
• 2012, Ph.D. , Department of Physics, Rutgers University
• 2007, B.S., Department of Physics, Peking University

Representative Publications 

• Long-baseline quantum sensor network as dark matter haloscope
  Min Jiang, Taizhou Hong, Dongdong Hu, Yifan Chen, Fengwei Yang, Tao Hu, Xiaodong Yang, Jing Shu, Yue Zhao, Xinhua Peng & Jiangfeng Du
  e-Print:2305.00890 [quant-ph]
  Nature Commun. 15 (2024) 1, 3331 (2024)

• Probing the pulsar explanation of the Galactic-Center GeV excess using continuous gravitational-wave searches
  Andrew Miller, Yue Zhao
  e-Print: 2301.10239 [astro-ph.HE]
  Phys.Rev.Lett. 131 (2023) 8, 8

• Stringent constraints on axion-photon coupling with Event Horizon Telescope polarimetric measurements of supermassive black hole M87
  Y. Chen, Y. Liu, R. Lu, Y. Mizuno, J. Shu, X. Xue, Q. Yuan, Y. Zhao
  e-Print: 2105.04572 [hep-ph]
  Nature Astron. 6 (2022) 5, 592-598

• Implications for First-Order Cosmological Phase Transitions from the Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Run
  A. Romero, K. Martinovic, T. Callister, H. Guo, M. Martínez,
  M. Sakellariadou, F. Yang, Y. Zhao
  e-Print: 2102.01714 [hep-ph]
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 151301 (2021)

• Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the third Advanced LIGO-Virgo observing run
  LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration
  Author in the paper-writing team
  e-Print: 2101.12248 [gr-qc]
  Phys.Rev.Lett. 126 (2021) 241102

• Ultralight dark matter detection with mechanical quantum sensors
  Daniel Carney, Anson Hook, Zhen Liu, Jacob M. Taylor, Yue Zhao.
  e-Print: arXiv:1908.04797 [hep-ph]
  New J.Phys. 23 (2021) 2, 023041

• Searching for Dark Photon Dark Matter in LIGO O1 Data
  Huai-Ke Guo, Keith Riles, Feng-Wei Yang, Yue Zhao
  e-Print: arXiv:1905.04316 [hep-ph]
  Commun.Phys. 2 (2019) 155

• Probing Axions with Event Horizon Telescope Polarimetric Measurements
  Yifan Chen, Jing Shu, Xiao Xue, Qiang Yuan, Yue Zhao
  e-Print: arXiv:1905.02213 [hep-ph]
  Phys.Rev.Lett. 124 (2020) 6, 061102

• Detecting Axion-like Dark Matter with Linearly Polarized Pulsar Light
  Tao Liu, George Smoot, Yue Zhao
  e-Print: arXiv:1901.10981 [astro-ph.CO]
  Phys.Rev.D 101 (2020) 6, 063012

• Dark Photon Dark Matter Produced by Axion Oscillations
  Raymond T. Co, Aaron Pierce, Zhengkang Zhang, Yue Zhao
  e-Print: arXiv:1810.07196 [hep-ph]
  Phys.Rev. D99 (2019) no.7, 075002

• Searching for Dark Photon Dark Matter with Gravitational Wave Detectors
  Aaron Pierce, Keith Riles, Yue Zhao
  e-Print: arXiv:1801.10161 [hep-ph]
  Phys.Rev.Lett. 121 (2018) no.6, 061102

• Superconducting Detectors for Super Light Dark Matter
  Yonit Hochberg, Yue Zhao, Kathryn M. Zurek
  e-Print: arXiv:1504.07237 [hep-ph]
  Phys.Rev.Lett. 116 (2016) 1, 011301

• A Radio for Hidden-Photon Dark Matter Detection
  S.  Chaudhuri, P. W. Graham, K. Irwin, J. Mardon, S.Rajendran, Y. Zhao
  e-Print: arXiv:1411.7382  [hep-ph]
  Phys.Rev. D92 (2015) 7, 075012

• Explicitly Broken Supersymmetry with Exactly Massless Moduli
  Xi Dong, Daniel Z. Freedman, Yue Zhao
  e-Print: arXiv:1410.2257  [hep-th]
  JHEP 1606 (2016) 090