Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Email: hyong@ucsd.edu
Office: Urey Hall Addn 3050B
Mail Code: 0340
Lab: Urey Hall B0244
Bio: Prof. Yong is an assistant professor at University of California San Diego. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Brown University in 2021 and a B.S. in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2016. He previously served as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Irvine from 2021 to 2023. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of Communications Chemistry, and the Young Editorial Board of Ultrafast Science. He is a recipient of the LCLS Young Investigator Award Finalist at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (2021), Royal Society of Chemistry Faraday Division Horizon Prize (2021), and U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Award (2025).
Dec. 2023 - present
Ph.D. in Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, 2023
rjarupula@ucsd.edu
July 2024 - present
Schmidt AI in Science Postdocs Fellow, Oct 2025 - Sep 2027
P.h.D. in Theoretical Chemical Physics, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 2023
rmoghaddasifereidani@ucsd.edu
Sep. 2023 - present
M.S. in Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, 2023
B.S. in Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, 2020
haw099@ucsd.edu
Sep. 2024 - present
B.S. in Chemistry, University of California San Diego, 2024
nmuir@ucsd.edu
Sep. 2024 - present
B.A. in Chemistry & Physics, Bard College, 2024
safraser@ucsd.edu
Sep. 2024 - present
Research Assistant, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, 2022-2024
B.S. in Chemistry, National Taiwan University, 2021
chang@ucsd.edu
B.S. in Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, 2023 - present
jul142@ucsd.edu
B.S. in Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, 2023 - present
hheyang@ucsd.edu
Zilong Tang (M.S. in Chemistry, 2023 - 2025) ➡️ PhD student, UC Irvine
M.S. Thesis: Simulating Twisted X-ray Diffraction Patterns for Molecular Structure Imaging
Vivian Shiu (Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2023 - 2025) ➡️ Scientist, General Atomics
Shiba Inu
Interests: Ultrafast snack eating