2021-Present
University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)
PhD Student in Astronomy & Astrophysics

2017-2021
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
BSc in Astronomy, with highest honor Guo Moruo Scholarship
Thesis: Observational constraints on the evolution of nearby galaxies from IFU spectroscopy

4. An Unexplained Origin for the Unusual Globular Cluster System in the Ultra-diffuse Galaxy FCC 224
     Yimeng Tang, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Jonah S. Gannon, et al.       2025, ApJ, 982, 1T
3. Testing the Bullet Dwarf Collision Scenario in the NGC 1052 Group Through Morphologies and Stellar populations
     Yimeng Tang, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Pieter G. van Dokkum, et al.       2025, ApJ, 978, 21T
2. Unveiling the Formation of NGC 2915 with MUSE: A Counterrotating Stellar Disk Embedded in a Disordered Gaseous Environment
     Yimeng Tang, Bojun Tao, Hong-Xin Zhang, et al.       2022, A&A, 668, 179T
1. New Constraints on the Origin of Surface Brightness Profile Breaks of Disk Galaxies from MaNGA
     Yimeng Tang, Qianhui Chen, Hong-Xin Zhang, et al.       2020, ApJ, 897, 79T

10. VLT: Young and Cluster-Rich: The Progenitors of Globular Cluster-Rich Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies?
     Co-I, MUSE, 3 hours, 2025A     (PI: Luisa Buzzo)
9. Keck: Spectroscopic mapping of an ultra-diffuse galaxy with massive star-forming clumps
     PI, KCWI, 0.5 night, 2025A     (PI: Yimeng Tang)
8. Keck: The stellar populations gradients of ultra-diffuse galaxies
     Co-I, KCWI, 2 night, 2025A     (PI: Jean Brodie)
7. VLT: FCC 224: another dark matter free dwarf galaxy?
     Co-I, MUSE, 17 hours, 2024B     (PI: Luisa Buzzo)
6. Keck: Dark matter in NGC 1052 dwarf galaxies
     Co-I, KCWI, 1 night, 2024B     (PI: Duncan Forbes)
5. Keck: Globular clusters and dark matter in ultra-diffuse galaxies
     Co-I, KCWI, 2 nights, 2024B     (PI: Jean Brodie)
4. Keck: A critical test for dark matter in dwarf galaxies of the NGC 1052 group
     Co-I, KCWI, 1 night, 2024B     (PI: Aaron Romanowsky)
3. Keck: Unravelling the origins of cluster ultra-diffuse galaxies
     Co-I, DEIMOS, 1 night, 2023A     (PI: Aaron Romanowsky)
2. Keck: Unravelling the origins of ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Perseus cluster
     Co-I, DEIMOS, 3 nights, 2022B     (PI: Jean Brodie)
1. HST: A trail of dark matter-free galaxies in the NGC1052 group
     Co-I, ACS, 15 orbits, Cycle 29     (PI: Pieter van Dokkum)

Aaron Romanowsky (UC Santa Cruz/SJSU)           aaron.romanowsky@sjsu.edu
Sandra Faber (UC Santa Cruz)                                     faber@ucolick.org
David Koo (UC Santa Cruz)                                            koo@ucolick.org
Xu Kong (USTC)                                               xkong@ustc.edu.cn
Hong-Xin Zhang (USTC)                              hzhang18@ustc.edu.cn

2021          Outstanding Graduate of General Colleges and Universities in Anhui Province
2021          Outstanding Graduate of USTC
2021          USTC Undergraduate Honorary Rank
2020          Guo Moruo Scholarship
2020          National Scholarship
2019          Outstanding Student Scholarship (Gold Prize), USTC
2018          National Scholarship
2017          Outstanding Graduate of Suzhou High School of Jiangsu Province

4. Practical Programming for the Science (UCSC, ASTR 19), TA, 2024 Spring
3. Practical Programming for the Science (UCSC, ASTR 19), TA, 2022 Spring
2. Astronomical Labs (USTC, ASTR 170), TA, 2020 Fall
1. Observational Astronomy (USTC, ASTR 167), TA, 2020 Spring