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Shaoyun Bai joined the Department of Mathematics at MIT in July 2024. He completed his undergraduate study at Tsinghua University in 2017 and earned a PhD in Mathematics from Princeton University in 2022, under the supervision of John Pardon. Before his appointment at MIT, he held a short-term visiting position as a McDuff Postdoctoral Fellow at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics and worked as a Ritt Assistant Professor at Columbia University during the 2023-2024 academic year. His research primarily focuses on symplectic topology and its interactions with various fields including algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, geometric topology, and dynamical systems. Bai is actively developing new toolkits to address counting problems in moduli spaces and engages with classical questions such as the Arnold conjecture, periodic points of Hamiltonian maps, higher-rank Casson invariants, and the enumeration of embedded curves, all within the context of symplectic fibration topology.