Curriculum Vitae
Personal
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Date and place of birth: Jan. 28. 1975, Beijing, P. R. China
Education
Ph.D. Department of Chemistry, Emory University 1997, Advisor: Keiji Morokuma
B.S. Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Anhui, Hefei, P. R. China, 1993
Employment
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2007-present
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2001-2007
Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 1998-2001. Advisor: Martin Karplus
Teaching experience
Undergraduate Gen. Chem. (Chem 103), U. Wisc., Madison.
Undergraduate Phys. Chem. (Chem 562), Phys. Chem. Lab. (Chem 563), U. Wisc., Madison.
Graduate course: Molecular simulations with Biophysical Applications (Chem 860), U. Wisc., Madison.
Teaching Associate for Physical Chemistry, Emory University, 1995, 1996
Teaching Assistant for General Chemistry Lab. Emory University, 1993, 1994
Awards and Honors
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2004
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2004-2009
Research Innovation Award, Research Corporation, 2003-2005
Graduate student fellowship from Phillips Petroleum Co. 1994-1997
Lester Award from Department of Chemistry, Emory University 1996
Osborn R. Quayle Award from Department of Chemistry, Emory University, 1995
Student Scholarship from USTC, 1989, 1992.
Research Interest
Enzymatic catalysis; Bioenergetics; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Electronically excited states in chemistry and biology; Transition metal chemistry; Quantum dissipative systems; Control of chemical reactions; Nanotechnology; Biomimetics; Neuroscience
Program Contributions
Gaussian98, M. J. Frisch et al. and J. A. Pople, Gaussian Inc., Pittsburgh, PA
CHARMM, B. R. Brooks et al. and M. Karplus, Harvard University, MA
Professional Affiliations
American Chemical Society
American Physical Society
Biophysics Society
Recent Invited Conference presentations (2002-present)
- Multi-scale simulations in Biology, London, Sept. 2007
- Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics, London, Sept. 2007
- QM/MM Workshop, U. Penn. Aug. 2007
- ACS National Meeting, Boston, Aug, 2007
- ACS National Meeting, Chicago, March, 2007
- Biophysical Society Meeting, March, 2007
- Quantitative Computations in Biophysics, Tallahassee, Feb. 2007
- ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, Sept. 2006
- WCTCC 2006, Kunming, China, Aug. 2006
- BITS 2006, Ah_lishan, June, 2006
- International symposium on biomolecules: proteins, DNA/RNA and their interactions, Taipei (June, 2006)
- Midwest Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Meeting, Ohio State Univ., Ohio (June, 2006)
- Trends in enzymology, Lake Como, Italy (June, 2006)
- International symposium on "Reactions in solution and biological systems: potential surfaces and dynamics", ICQC, Fukui Institute for fundamental chemistry, Kyoto University, Japan (May, 2006)
- APS National Meeting, Baltimore, MD (Mar. 2006)
- M2CELL Workshop, France (Dec., 2005)
- International workshop on "Multi-scale simulation of biological systems", Snowbird, Utah (Oct. 2005)
- National ACS Meeting, Washington, D.C. Aug. 2005
- Telluride Workshop on "Vibrational Dynamics in Biomolecules", Telluride, CO (Aug. 2005)
- Symposium on "protein folding, dynamics and function", Peking Univ., Peking, (July. 2005)
- Workshop on "Enzyme dynamics", Mathematical Bioscience Institute, Ohio State University, (May. 2005)
- Mechanochemical coupling in myosin from molecular simulations WATOC 2005, South Africa, (Jan. 2005)
- Mechanochemical coupling in myosin from molecular simulations, International workshop on theoretical and computational chemistry of complex systems, Hongkong, (Jan. 2005)
- 2004 Triangle Symposium, Chapel Hill, NC. (Nov. 2004)
- NSF-CHE Workshop on "Molecular Basis of Life Processes", Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TX, (Oct. 2004)
- Theoretical studies of catalysis and conformational transition in proteins, Towards Accurate calculation of biomolecular recognition and reactivity, University of Manchester, UK (Sept. 2004)
- Treating electrostatics in combined QM/MM simulations, American Chemical Society National Meeting, (Aug. 2004)
- Exploring the mechanochemical coupling in myosin with molecular simulations, German-American Symposium on Frontiers of Chemistry, Kloster Seeon, (Jul. 2004)
- Exploring the mechanochemical coupling in molecular motors: QM/MM and molecular dynamics studies, Proteomics Workshop : Molecular Machines, Institute for pure & applied mathematics, UCLA (May. 2004)
- Exploring the mechanochemical coupling in molecular motors: QM/MM and molecular dynamics studies, Grand challenges in modeling the assembly and properties of nanomaterials, Argonne National Lab, Argonne, IL (Aug., 2003)
- Exploring the mechanochemical coupling in molecular motors: QM/MM and molecular dynamics studies, Excited state processes in electronic and bio nano-materials, Los Alamos National Lab, NM (Aug., 2003)
- QM/MM studies of enzyme functions: from catalysis to mechanochemical coupling, ICQC Satellite meeting on Computational and Modelingof catalysis, MPI Kohlenforschung, Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany (Jul., 2003)
- Exploring the mechanism of myosin: combined QM/MM and molecular dynamics studies, CECAM Workshop on multi-scale simulations, Lyon, France (Jul., 2003)
- Exploring free energy changes in biological systems, ACS National Meeting, New Orleans (Mar., 2003)
- Theoretical studies of redox reactions in proteins, Sanibel Conference, Florida (Feb., 2003)
- Theoretical studies of catalysis and conformational transition in proteins, 2nd Worldwide Chinese Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Conference, Taiwan (Sept., 2002)
- Studying redox processes in enzymes with combined QM/MM methods, 2nd German American Symposium on the frontier of Chemistry, NH (Aug., 2002)
- Theoretical studies of catalysis and conformational transition in proteins, Gordon Research conference in Computational Chemistry, NH (July, 2002)
- Theoretical studies of catalysis and conformational transition in proteins, ACS Great-Lake Regional Meeting, MN (June, 2002)
Recent Invited Institution seminars (2002-present)
- Theoretical studies of vectorial systems in biology, Dept. of Chem., NYU, May, 2007
- Theoretical studies of vectorial systems in biology, Center of Bioinf. & Biostat., Iowa State, Apr. 2007
- Theoretical studies of vectorial systems in biology, Dept. of Chem., Purdue Univ. Apr. 2007
- Theoretical studies of vectorial systems in biology, Dept. of Biochem., Univ. Minnesota, Feb. 2007
- Theoretical studies of vectorial systems in biology, Dept. of Chem., Notre Dame, Nov. 2006
- Theoretical studies of vectorial systems in biology, Beckman Inst., UIUC, Nov. 2006
- Theoretical studies of vectorial systems in biology, Dept. of Mech. Eng., Johns Hopkins, Nov. 2006
- Theoretical studies of vectorial systems in biology, Dept. of Chem., Univ. Chicago, Oct. 2006
- Theoretical studies of vectorial systems in biology, Dept. of Chem., UCSD, Oct. 2006
- Theoretical studies of vectorial systems in biology, Dept. of Mol. Biol., Scripps, Oct. 2006
- Theoretical studies of vectorial systems in biology, Dept. of Chem., Univ. Iowa, Aug., 2006
- Theoretical studies of vectorial systems in biology, Mitsubishi Chemical Co., May, 2006
- Theoretical studies of vectorial systems in biology, Dept. of Chem., Kobe Univ. May, 2006
- Theoretical studies of vectorial systems in biology, Dept. of Chem., Florida State Univ., March, 2006
- Theoretical studies of vectorial systems in biology, Dept. of Chem., Univ. Pitts. March, 2006
- Dynamics and function of biomolecules: insights from molecular simulations, Dept. of Chem., Mercey, Sept. 2005
- Mechanochemical coupling in myosin with molecular simulations, Dept. of Biophys. Washington University, Apr. 2005
- Mechanochemical coupling in myosin with molecular simulations, Dept. of Chem. Jackson State University, Apr. 2005
- Theoretical studies of chemistry in biomolecular systems, Dept. of Chem. U. Penn. March. 31, 2005
- Theoretical studies of chemistry in biomolecular systems, Dept. of Biochem. Michigan State University, March. 17, 2005
- Mechanochemical coupling in myosin with molecular simulations, CIBM seminar series, Univ. Wisc., Madison, Sept. 2004
- Protein dynamics and catalysis - insights from molecular simulations of enzymes and molecular machines, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany (July 2004)
- Theoretical studies of chemistry in biomolecular systems, Dept. of Chem., SUNY-Stony Brook (May 2004)
- Preliminary insights into the mechanochemical coupling in myosin with molecular simulations, Dept. of Chem., Penn. State Univ. (Mar. 2004)
- Preliminary insights into the mechanochemical coupling in myosin with molecular simulations, Dept. of Chem., Univ. of Michigan (Dec. 2003)
- Preliminary insights into the mechanochemical coupling in myosin with molecular simulations, Dept. of Chem., Univ. of Nevada, Reno (Nov. 2003)
- Preliminary insights into the mechanochemical coupling in myosin with molecular simulations, Center for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, (Nov. 2003)
- Preliminary insights into the mechanochemical coupling in myosin with molecular simulations, Dept. of Chem., Univ. of Wisc., Madison (Sept. 2003)
- Multi-scale simulations of biological systems - Challenges and progresses, Dept. of Math., Univ. of Wisc., Madison (Oct. 2002)
- Theoretical studies of catalysis and conformational transition in proteins, Dept. of Chem., College of Staten Island, The City Univ. of New York (Oct. 2002)
- Theoretical studies of catalysis and conformational transition in proteins, Dept. of Chem., Univ. of New Mexico (Oct. 2002)
- Theoretical studies of catalysis and conformational transition in proteins, Dept. of Chem. Eng., Univ. of Wisc. Madison (Apr., 2002)
- Theoretical studies of catalysis and conformational transition in proteins, Dept. of Chem. Univ. of Iowa (Apr., 2002)
- Recent developments in combined Quantum Mechanical and Molecular Mechanical methods, Dept. of Chem., Univ. of Wisc. Madison (Oct., 2001)
Last Modify. Feb. 2004