Personal

• 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)