CV
Education
- Ph.D in physical chemistry, University of California, Davis 2019.9 - 2024.9
- M.S. in statistics, University of California, Davis 2023.2 - 2024.6
- B.S. in chemistry, Beijing Normal University 2015.9 - 2019.6
Experience
2025.4 - Present: Business Development Manager
- Atombeat Inc
- Topic: go-to-market strategy,startup incubation and BD
2024.9 - 2025.5: Postdoc
- CCE, CalTech
- Topic: biocatalysis and carbocations
- Supervisor: Hosea M. Nelson
2019.9 - 2024.9: Graduate Student Researcher/PhD student
- Department of Chemistry, UC Davis
- Topic: Weird organometallic reactions, kinetic/theromodynamic analysis, bizzare natural products, non-classical mechanisms with dynamic effect in organic synthesis
- Supervisor: Dean J. Tantillo
Summer 2023: AI for Science Intern
- DP Technology
- Duties includes: Exploring the potential of a Transformer-based molecular representation framework Uni-Mol 🤖, retrosynthesis, molecular/atomic properties prediction
- Division: HAL9K (AI group)
- Supervisor: Zhifeng Gao
2019 - present: 3 cats’ mom
- Duties includes: Taking care of three cute cats adopted from shelter in Sacramento.
2017-2019: Undergraduate Student Researcher
- Beijing Normal University, Key Laboratory of Radiopharmaceuticals
- Topic: Near-infrared fluorescence probe, 18F-labeled detector of β-amyloid fibrils, Organic synthesis, in vitro tests, excited and emission spectra, binding affinity test through fluorescent staining
- Supervisor: Mengchao Cui
summer 2017: Visiting Undergraduate Student Researcher
- Department of chemistry, Iowa state university
- Topic: Synthesis of salicylideneanilines, exploration of aromaticity, excited state intramolecular proton transfer
- Supervisor: Brett VanVeller
Awards and Achievements
2024
- Outstanding dissertation, Issued by UC Davis, Graduate studies. associated to 24th R. Bryan Miller symposium
- R. Bryan Miller graduate summer fellowship, Issued by UC Davis, Department of Chemistry. associated to 24th R. Bryan Miller symposium
2023
- Champion of The CFFF Prize: Quantum Chemistry Molecular Property Prediction Competition (1/1401), Issued by The CFFF Prize Organizing Committee and Alibaba Cloud Tianchi Platform. Competition of designing and training deep learning models using a dataset of 120,000 molecules, encompassing over 10 million conformations, with the objective of predicting the molecular energy and forces
- Peter A. Rock Fellowship, Issued by UC Davis, Department of Chemistry. In recognition of the highest academic merit and research promise in the field of Physical Chemistry
- Outstanding Master’s Student Award, Issued by UC Davis, Department of Statistics. In recognition of excellent academic performance in the Master’s program in Statistics
2022
- Best Graduate Student Poster, Issued by UC Davis, Department of Chemistry.
- 2022 graduate student association best poster award for 22th R. Bryan Miller Symposium
2019
- First Scholarship for Academic Performance, Issued by Beijing Normal University.
2018
- First Prize in the 9th Undergrad Chemistry Experiment Competition, Issued by Beijing Higher Education Commission
2017
- Presentation Excellent Reward, Issued by Peking University
- 2017 undergraduate student presentation award for 5th National Symposium for Chemical Undergraduates
Skills
- Lead Generation and Tracking, Pricing Strategy, Client Engagement, Negotiation and Deal Structuring, Customer-Centric Mindset, Network Presentation, Proposal Construction and Customization
- Computational Chemistry, Pchem, OChem, molecular simulations, MD simulations, DFT
- Python, R
- Negotiation, research and collaborations!
Publications
Please refer to my Google Scholar for a full list of my publications.
Running Wild through Dirhodium Tetracarboxylate-Catalyzed Combined CH(C)-Functionalization/Cope Rearrangement Landscapes: Does Post-Transition-State Dynamic Mismatching Influence Product Distributions? Permalink
Node-Aligned Graph-to-Graph: Elevating Template-free Deep Learning Approaches in Single-Step Retrosynthesis Permalink
Analogies between photochemical reactions and ground-state post-transition-state bifurcations shed light on dynamical origins of selectivity Permalink
Talks
Physics + AI-Guided Design for Cell-Permeable Cyclic Peptide Discovery Permalink
talk at Boulder Peptide Symposium, Pennsylvania, US
Predictive and Generative Artificial intelligence towards Polymers Permalink
talk at ACS, Washington, D.C, US
Enhancing AI-aided drug design with Uni-QSAR (on behalf of Dr. Cui) Permalink
talk at ACS, Washington, D.C, US
Vinyl Carbocation Chemistry: Confronting the Computational Challenges That Matter Permalink
talk at NSF center for computer assisted synthesis, Pennsylvania, US
Flexibility, π-π stacking, and ylide stabilization in organometalic catalyzation Permalink
Invited virtual talk at ACS, Colorado, US
Run Wild, Rh-carbenes! Permalink
Lightning talk at R. Bryan Miller Symposium, California, US
CHCR Reactions with Dynamic Effect Permalink
Poster at University of California, Davis, California, US
Rearrangement of non-classical carbocation Permalink
Lightning talk at R. Bryan Miller Symposium, California, US
Post-transition state bifurcation in Rh-catalyzed reaction Permalink
Talk at University of California, Los Angeles, California, US
Post-transition state bifurcation in Rh-catalyzed reaction Permalink
Poster at University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, US
Near-infrared fluorescent probe labels Aβ plaques through in vivo bioorthogonal reactions
Talk at 5th National Symposium for Chem Undergrad, Peking Univeristy, Beijing, China
Functionalized Salicylideneaniline that Enables Ground State Enol-keto Tautomerism
poster at Iowa State University, Iowa, US