Lab News
2024
May 2024: The Mao and Cooksy labs had a joint celebration of new graduates David Roberts (Mao lab) and Molly Hedin (Cooksy lab). Congratulations!!
April 2024: Yuezhi's co-authored manuscript "Environmentally Driven Symmetry-Breaking Quenches Dual Fluorescence in Proflavine" (work led by the Tim Zuehlsdorff group at Oregon State University) is published in J. Phys. Chem. Lett.
April 2024: David will start his next journey in the Master of Biomedical Engineering Program at Cornell University this Fall. Congragulations, David!
April 2024: Gabriela accepted a PhD offer for the Tetrad Graduate Program at UCSF. She was also selected to be a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright scholarship which will support her research abroad in South Korea. Congratulations, Gabby!
March 2024: Yuezhi presented seminars at UCSD, CSU Long Beach, and CSU Fullerton
March 2024: David presented a poster about his research on hydridic hydrogen bonds in the SDSU Student Symposium (S3) 2024!
February 2024: Wyatt was selected by the e-FARMs program. Congratulations!
January 2024: Kristen Wang Romero (postdoc research associate) and Mateo Contreras (undergrad student in chemistry) joined the group. Welcome, Kristen and Mateo!
January 2024: Yuezhi and Luna attended the 2024 CSUBIOTECH Symposium in Santa Clara. Luna presented a poster on her undergrad work with Prof. Uduak George.
January 2024: Gabriela Contreras was honored as the CSU-LSAMP PROUD scholar for the year 2023 and was covered by SDSU CoS news. Congratulations, Gabby!
2023
December 2023: Yuezhi's co-authored paper "Training machine learning potentials for reactive systems: A Colab tutorial on basic models" (an effort led by Yihan Shao's group at OU) is published in J. Comput. Chem.
November 2023: Wyatt Mathers (MS student in chemistry) and Nilay Kanova (JDP student in chemistry; joint with the Gustafson lab) joined the group. Welcome, Wyatt and Nilay!
November 2023: Yuezhi attended the 2023 Scialog Negative Emission Sciences (NES) meeting as a Scialog Fellow.
November 2023: Yuezhi's collaborative paper on free energy profile decomposition analysis in QM/MM simulations of enzyme reactions with Yihan Shao's group at OU and others were accepted for publication in J. Chem. Theory Comput.
October 2023: Blaise Duncan (undergraduate student in computer science) joined the lab. Welcome Blaise!
October 2023: Vayle, Luna, and David attended the SoCal Theochem meeting at UCLA; Vayle presented her work as a summer intern at the Sandia Lab
September 2023: Vayle Vera Cruz joined the lab as a post-baccalaureate researcher (joint with the Gu lab). Welcome back to SDSU, Vayle!
August 2023: Luna Huynh (COMP Sci. JDP student) and David Roberts (undergraduate student in chemical physics) joined the lab. Welcome Luna and David!
August 2023: Yuezhi attended the ACS Fall meeting in San Francisco and gave a talk titled "Uncovering the many faces of C-H vibrational frequency shifts" in the COMP Division
July 2023: Yuezhi's co-first-authored paper on machine learning electronic spectra from his postdoc work at Stanford was published in J. Phys. Chem. Lett.
April 2023: Shiqi accepted an offer for the chemistry PhD program at John Hopkins University. Congratulations, Shiqi!!
February 2023: Yuezhi gave a tutorial lecture on ALMO-EDA in CECAM Virtual Winter School on computational chemistry (link)
January 2023: Yuezhi's two collaborative papers on force decomposition analysis (with the Head-Gordon group at Berkeley) and machine-learned implicit solvent models (with Yihan Shao's group at OU) were accepted for publication in J. Phys. Chem. A and RSC Advances, respectively.
January 2023: Vedika Nalawade (COMP Sci MS student) and Gabriela Contreras (biochemistry undergraduate student) joined the lab. Welcome, Vedika and Gabby!
2022
December 2022: Yuezhi received the SDSU Seed Grant for 2023
November 2022: Yuezhi's collaborative paper with Peter Eastman et al. on the SPICE dataset was accepted in Sci. Data
November 2022: Sejal Waghray (COMP Sci MS student) joined the lab. Welcome to the lab, Sejal!
October 2022: Yuezhi attended the SoCal TheoChem Symposium and presented a poster
October 2022: Yuezhi presented a Q-Chem webinar on projection-based QM embedding methods in Q-Chem (link)
September 2022: Yuezhi gave a talk on Theoretical modeling of electron transfer processes and condensed-phase electronic spectra in the CSRC colloquium (link)
September 2022: Our lab space (CSL-508) is ready for student use!
September 2022: Shiqi He (who just received her B.Sc. from Beijing University of Chemical Technology) joined the lab as a volunteer research assistant. Welcome, Shiqi!
August 2022: Yuezhi officially started at SDSU