My research interest lies in the accretion of compact objects of various scales, e.g., black hole/neutron star X-ray binaries, active galactic nuclei, and tidal disruption events.

So far the main focus of my work has been modeling the accretion of black holes by investigating the energy coupling and matter exchange between the accretion disk and the corona (i.e. the evaporation of the disk and the condensation of the corona), under the supervision of Prof. Bifang Liu at NAOC. Most recently we investigated the possible condensation of the hot flow and hence the formation of an inner disk in the low/hard state of black hole X-ray binaries.

At the moment, I am exploring in various topics. In the theoretical aspect, I am working to further improve our corona condensation model and generalize it to a wider range of accretion rate to make it applicable to the more luminous states of accreting systems. From the observational point of view, I seek to use our model to explain various observational results which cannot be otherwise explained by the conventional truncated disk models.

As an associate member of the Einstein Probe Science Topical Panel 4, I have been working as a transient advocate for the Einstein Probe and its path-finder, Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy (LEIA), from which I have gained basic knowledge in observation and X-ray data analysis.

2021-Present: PhD student in Astrophysics, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

2017-2021：BSc in Astronomy, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

2023-Present: associate member of the Einstein Probe Science Topical Panel 4 (compact stellar objects) 

2024-Present: transient advocate of the Einstein Probe    

2022-Present: transient advocate of the Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy (LEIA)     

2022-Present: teaching assistant of the postgraduate course Radiative Processes in Astrophysics at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

1. Yilong Wang, B F Liu, Erlin Qiao, Huaqing Cheng, Accretion flows in the hard state of black hole X-ray binaries: the effect of hot gas condensation, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 527, Issue 1, January 2024, Pages 1333–1343, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3224