Xuheng Ding

Kavli IPMU, The University of Tokyo
Kashiwa, Japan
H (+81) 090 5937−6225
B xuheng.ding@ipmu.jp
Nationality: Chinese
ORCID: 0000-0001-8917-2148
homepage: https://dartoon.github.io/

Research Interests– Galaxies Evolution;– Observational Cosmology;– Strong Gravitational Lensing;– Gravitational Wave.

Education2012.09
Ph.D.,—2017.06 Beijing Normal University, Beijing
Adviser: Prof. Zong-Hong Zhu

2015.09
Visiting Graduate Researcher,–2017.03 The University of California, Los Angeles
Adviser: Prof. Tommaso Treu

2008.09
B.S.,–2012.06 Hunan Normal University, Changsha

Working Experience2020.09
Postdoc (Kavli Fellow), University of Tokyo, Kavli IPMU, Tokyo, Japan–present
2018.09
Postdoc, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles, US–2020.08
2018.07.08 Visiting Researcher, Kavli IPMU, Tokyo, Japan–2018.08.03
2017.06
Postdoc, Wuhan University, School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan,–2018.09 China
2014 Teaching Assistant, Beijing Normal University
Stellar Atmosphere for Third Year Students.

2014 Assistant Adviser, Beijing Normal University
Summer Camp of Astronomy for High School Students.

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2011 High-school Practice Teacher, Liling No. 4 high school,Teaching High School Physics.

GrantsPI HST Program: Identification of dual quasars with close separations at z > 1,
Project ID: Cycle 30-GO-17143
Co-PI JWST Program: A Complete Census of Supermassive Black
Holes and Host Galaxies at z = 6,
Project ID: Cycle 1-GO-1967
leading the high redshift (z > 6) QSO imaging data analysis.

Academic Activities (selected)
Referee for – The Astrophysical Journal;– Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society;– Astronomy & Astrophysics;– Astronomical Journal.
Programming Developed GaLight: A python package that analyzes and models the imaging
data of galaxies, QSOs, and duals.
Collaboration – COSMOS-webb: Decomposition for JWST imaged QSOs;
participation – Subaru HSC: developing tools for galaxy/QSO imaging analysis;– TDCOSMO & H0LiCOW: strong lensing time delay cosmography;
Collaboration TDLMC: Time delay lens modelling challenge.
leading
Moderator IPMU Astro Journal Club.
Instructor CSST summer school, KIAA, Peking University (2022).
Lecturer Speaker of IPMU Orientation Session of JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific
Research (2022).
Outreach The Willows Community School, Los Angeles, US — Demonstration of aWater Bottle Rocket (2016).

Awards (selected)
as postdoc
2022 JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists.
2020 First author paper “Testing the Fidelity of Simulations of Black Hole – Galaxy
Coevolution at z∼1.5 with Observations” recognized as AAS Nova researchhighlight (2020/09/30).

as student
2018 Excellent doctoral thesis of Beijing Normal University.
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2015–17 China Scholarship Council Fellowship.
2016 Young Scholars Outstanding Paper Award — Chinese Physical Society.
2016 First Prize in Young Astronomers Academic Reports Workshop— Chinese
Astronomical Society.
2015 Ph.D. candidates Chinese National Scholarship.

Scientific Research Mentoring
Graduate Shenli Tang, (2020-Present, Tokyo University): on HSC dual quasar searching
student and analysis.
Junyao Li, (2018-2019, Tokyo University): on HSC quasar imaging decomposition.
Lilan Yang, (2018-2019, WHU): on strong lensed GW detection rate prediction.
Xianlong He, (2021-2022, WHU): on HST galaxy and strong lensing image
data analysis.
Undergrad. Changhao Chen, (2021-2022, USTC): on HST deep image of simulation.

Presentations
2022 IPMU Colloquium (invited),
Kavli IPMU (remotely), Kashiwa, Japan
2022 HSC-AGN collaboration new science report (invited),
HSC collaboration, Japan2022 COSMOS2022,
Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France
2021 SHAO Colloquium (invited),
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Shanghai, China
2021 WHU Colloquium (invited),
Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
2021 USTC Colloquium (invited),
Department of Astronomy - School of Physical Sciences, Hefei, China
2021 IPMU Colloquium (invited),Kavli IPMU (remotely), Kashiwa, Japan
2019 Seminar of Lunch Talks (invited),
Peking University KIAA, Beijing
2019 Annual AGN-Starburst Conference,
National Astronomical Observatories of China, Guiyang, Guizhou
2019 Annual Galaxy evolution workshop (invited),
Kavli IPMU, Tokyo, Japan

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2019 Lunch Seminar (invited),
Kavli IPMU, Tokyo, Japan2018 Annual Meeting of STRIDES/H0LiCOW,
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany (remotely)2018 Lunch Seminar (invited),
Kavli IPMU, Tokyo, Japan2017 Annual meeting of the Division of Gravitation and Relativistic Astrophysics of the Chinese Physical Society,
Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
2016 Young Astronomers Academic Reports Workshop,
NAOC, Beijing, China
2016 Annual Meeting of STRIDES/H0LiCOW,
UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
2015 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Physical Society,Division of Gravitation and Relativistic Astrophysics, Hangzhou, China
2015 Ningbo Cosmology Workshop,
The University of Nottingham Ningbo, China

Languages
English (Fluent)Japanese (Basic)
Chinese (Mother-tongue)

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Xuheng Ding

Kavli IPMU, The University of Tokyo
Kashiwa, Japan
H (+81) 090 5937−6225
B xuheng.ding@ipmu.jp

List of Publications (ADS link; h-index:21; g-index: 42)
First Author and Mentoring Publication (15 in total)
2022 “Opening the era of quasar host studies at high redshift with JWST”
Ding, Xuheng; Silverman, John D.; Onoue, Masafusa, 2022, ApJL submitted
2022 “Concordance between Observations and Simulations in the Evolution of theMass Relation between Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies”
Ding, Xuheng; Silverman, John D.; Treu, Tommaso and et al., 2022, ApJ,
933, 132D
2021 “Improved time-delay lens modelling and H0 inference with transient sources”
Ding, Xuheng; Liao, Kai; Birrer, Simon and et al., 2021, MNRAS, 504, 5621D
2021 “Time delay lens modelling challenge”
Ding, Xuheng; Treu, T.; Birrer, S. and et al., 2021, MNRAS, 503, 1096D
2021 “Testing the evolution of correlations between supermassive black holes andtheir host galaxies using eight strongly lensed quasars”
Ding, Xuheng; Treu, Tommaso; Birrer, Simon and et al., 2021, MNRAS, 501,269D
2020 “Testing the Fidelity of Simulations of Black Hole-Galaxy Coevolution atz∼1.5 with Observations”
Ding, Xuheng; Treu, Tommaso; Silverman, John D. and et al., 2020, ApJ,896, 159D2020 “Black Hole Mass Function and Its Evolution – The First Prediction for theEinstein Telescope”
Ding, Xuheng; Liao, Kai; Biesiada, Marek and et al., 2020, ApJ, 891, 76D2020 “The Mass Relations between Supermassive Black Holes and Their HostGalaxies at 1 < z < 2 HST-WFC3”
Ding, Xuheng; Silverman, John; Treu, Tommaso and et al., 2020, ApJ, 888,37D
2019 “How Does the Earth’s Rotation Affect Predictions of Gravitational Wave
Strong Lensing Rates?”
Yang, Lilan; Ding, Xuheng; Biesiada, Marek and et al., 2019, ApJ, 874, 139Y
2019 “Cosmological inference from standard sirens without redshift measurements”
Ding, Xuheng; Biesiada, Marek; Zheng, Xiaogang and et al., 2019, JCAP, 04,033D
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2017 “H0LiCOW VII: cosmic evolution of the correlation between black hole massand host galaxy luminosity”
Ding, Xuheng; Treu, Tommaso; Suyu, Sherry H. and et al., 2017, MNRAS,472, 90D2017 “H0LiCOW. VI. Testing the fidelity of lensed quasar host galaxy reconstruction”
Ding, Xuheng; Liao, Kai; Treu, Tommaso and et al., 2017, MNRAS, 465,4634D
2015 “Strongly lensed gravitational waves from intrinsically faint double compact
binariesâĂŤprediction for the Einstein Telescope”
Ding, Xuheng; Biesiada, Marek; Zhu, Zong-Hong., 2015, JCAP, 12, 006D2015 “Toward cosmological-model-independent calibrations for the luminosity relations of Gamma-Ray Bursts”
Ding, Xuheng; Li, Zhengxiang; Zhu, Zong-Hong., 2015, IJMPD, 2450057D2015 “Is There Evidence for Dark Energy Evolution?”
Ding, Xuheng; Biesiada, Marek; Cao, Shuo and et al., 2015, ApJ, 803L, 22D

2nd, 3rd Author Publication (16 in total)
2022 “A Candidate of a Least-Massive Black Hole at the First 1.1 Billion Years ofthe Universe”
Onoue, Masafusa; Inayoshi, Kohei; Ding, Xuheng, and et al. ApJL, submitted
2022 “Inferences on Relations between Distant Supermassive Black Holes and Their
Hosts Complemented by the Galaxy Fundamental Plane”
Silverman, John D.; Li, Junyao; Ding, Xuheng, 2022, ApJ, 933, 165S
2021 “Synchronized Coevolution between Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxies
over the Last Seven Billion Years as Revealed by Hyper Suprime-Cam”
Li, Junyao; Silverman, John D.; Ding, Xuheng and et al., 2021, ApJ, 922,142L
2021 “Optical Spectroscopy of Dual Quasar Candidates from the Subaru HSC-SSP
program”
Tang, Shenli; Silverman, John D.; Ding, Xuheng and et al., 2021, ApJ, 922,
83T
2021 “Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program: A Mass-dependent Slope ofthe Galaxy Size-Mass Relation at z < 1”
Kawinwanichakij, Lalitwadee; Silverman, John D.; Ding, Xuheng and et al.,2021, ApJ, 921, 38K
2021 “A Local Baseline of the Black Hole Mass Scaling Relations for Active Galaxies. IV. Correlations Between MBH and Host Galaxy ÏČ, Stellar Mass, andLuminosity”
Bennert, Vardha N.; Treu, Tommaso; Ding, Xuheng and et al., 2021, ApJ,
921, 36B

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2021 “The Sizes of Quasar Host Galaxies in the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program”
Li, Junyao; Silverman, John D.; Ding, Xuheng and et al., 2021, ApJ, 918,22L
2020 “Probing compact dark matter with gravitational wave fringes detected bythe Einstein Telescope”
Liao, Kai; Tian, Shuxun; Ding, Xuheng., 2020, MNRAS, 495, 2002L
2019 “Where Do Quasar Hosts Lie with Respect to the Size-Mass Relation ofGalaxies?”
Silverman, John D.; Treu, Tommaso; Ding, Xuheng and et al., 2019, ApJ,
887L, 5S
2018 “Anomalies in Time Delays of Lensed Gravitational Waves and Dark Matter
Substructures”
Liao, Kai; Ding, Xuheng; Biesiada, Marek and et al., 2018, ApJ, 867, 69L
2018 “Strongly lensed repeating fast radio bursts as precision probes of the universe”
Li, Zheng-Xiang; Gao, He; Ding, Xu-Heng and et al., 2018, NatCo, 9, 3833L
2018 “Curvature from Strong Gravitational Lensing: A Spatially Closed Universe orSystematics?”
Li, Zhengxiang; Ding, Xuheng; Wang, Guo-Jian and et al., 2018, ApJ, 854,
146L
2017 “Precision cosmology from future lensed gravitational wave and electromagnetic signals”
Liao, Kai; Fan, Xi-Long; Ding, Xuheng and et al., 2017, NatCo, 8, 1148L
2016 “What Are the Omh2 (z1, z2) and Om (z1, z2) Diagnostics Telling us in Lightof H(z) Data?”
Zheng, Xiaogang; Ding, Xuheng; Biesiada, Marek and et al., 2016, ApJ, 825,17Z
2015 “Unbiased constraints on the clumpiness of the Universe from standard candles”
Li, Zhengxiang; Ding, Xuheng; Zhu, Zong-Hong., 2015, PhRvD, 91h3010L,
2014 “Strong gravitational lensing of gravitational waves from double compact
binaries-perspectives for the Einstein Telescope”
Biesiada, Marek; Ding, Xuheng; Piórkowska, Aleksandra and et al., 2014,JCAP, 10, 080B

Co-Author Publication (11 in total)
2022 “Early results from GLASS-JWST. V: the first rest-frame optical size-luminosity
relation of galaxies at z>7”
Yang, Lilan; Morishita, T.; Leethochawalit, N and et al. ApJL, accepted

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2022 “Event rate predictions of strongly lensed gravitational waves with detector
networks and more realistic templates”
Yang, Lilan; Wu, Shichao; Liao, Kai and et al., 2022, MNRAS, 509, 3772Y
2021 “lenstronomy II: A gravitational lensing software ecosystem”
Birrer, Simon; Shajib, Anowar; Gilman, Daniel and et al., 2021, JOSS, 6,3283B
2021 “Inspiraling Double Compact Object Detection and Lensing Rate: Forecastfor DECIGO and B-DECIGO”
Piórkowska-Kurpas, Aleksandra; Hou, Shaoqi; Biesiada, Marek and et al.,2021, ApJ, 908, 196P
2020 “TDCOSMO. IV. Hierarchical time-delay cosmography - joint inference of the
Hubble constant and galaxy density profiles”
Birrer, S.; Shajib, A. J.; Galan, A. and et al., 2020, A&A, 643A, 165B
2020 “H0LiCOW - XIII. A 2.4 percent measurement of H0 from lensed quasars:
5.3σ tension between early- and late-Universe probes”
Wong, Kenneth C.; Suyu, Sherry H.; Chen, Geoff C. -F. and et al., 2020,MNRAS, 498, 1420W
2020 “Dual Supermassive Black Holes at Close Separation Revealed by the Hyper
Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program”
Silverman, John D.; Tang, Shenli; Lee, Khee-Gan and et al., 2020, ApJ, 899,154S
2020 “TDCOSMO. I. An exploration of systematic uncertainties in the inference ofH0 from time-delay cosmography”
Millon, M.; Galan, A.; Courbin, F. and et al., 2020, A&A, 639A, 101M
2019 “A SHARP view of H0LiCOW: H0 from three time-delay gravitational lenssystems with adaptive optics imaging”
Chen, Geoff C. -F.; Fassnacht, Christopher D.; Suyu, Sherry H. and et al.,2019, MNRAS, 490, 1743C
2019 “Strongly gravitationally lensed type Ia supernovae: Direct test of the FriedmanLemaître-Robertson-Walker metricc”
Qi, Jingzhao; Cao, Shuo; Biesiada, Marek and et al., 2019, PhRvD,
100b3530Q,
2017 “H0LiCOW - I. H0 Lenses in COSMOGRAIL’s Wellspring: program overview”
Suyu, S. H.; Bonvin, V.; Courbin, F. and et al., 2017, MNRAS, 468, 2590S

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