News
2024
May
Attended the 2024 Upper Peninsula Teaching and Learning Conference (UPTLC), Escanaba, MI. The title of poster is "Layering Collaborative Learning on Lecture: Adaptive Group Problem Solving (GPS) Sessions in a Large Introductory Mechanics Course".
January
Started teaching PH2100 group problem-solving (GPS) sessions at MichiganTech for Spring 2024.
2023
December
Started my postdoc in Dr. Issei Nakamura's research group at the Department of Physics at MichiganTech. My research focus on developing Physics-informed neural networks on microbial community collaborating with Dr. Steve Techtmann's group.
November
2023 AIChE annual meeting in Orlando, FL:
"Assemblies of Multi-Component Intrinsically Disordered Proteins and Their Spatial Organization" [link]
"Effect of Therapeutic Molecules on Phase Separation and Dynamics of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins" [link]
October
Featured on LSU Engineering's website [link].
September
Recipient of the Postdoctoral Research Award under Track 1C by the Louisiana Materials Design Alliance (LAMDA)!
April
Invited to serve as the Guest Editor for the Special Issue "Application of Machine Learning Algorithms for Biological Data and Biological Systems" of Processes Journal of Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI).
My hooding moment on commencement is selected for the cover of The Daily Dining Gazette newspaper and their website!
March
Joined Dr. Yaxin An's computational group as a postdoctoral researcher.
2022
November
Successfully defended my PhD thesis!
October
Published my first-author research letter in MRS Communications titled "Surrogate molecular dynamics simulation model for dielectric constants with ensemble neural networks" [View-only PDF] [Website].
August
Recipient of the Henes Center Fellowship by the Elizabeth and Richard Henes Center for Quantum Phenomena.
May
Awarded Doctoral Finishing Fellowship by Michigan Technological University.
March
Delivered two presentations at the APS March Meeting in Chicago, IL:
"Modeling of Lithium Dendrite Growth in Ionic Liquids with Lattice Monte Carlo Simulation Method and Deep Neural Networks"[link]
"Molecular dynamics simulations for the molecular polarization of salt-free and salt-containing liquids with Stockmayer fluids and ensemble neural networks" [link]
January
Awarded the Henes Center Fellowship by the Elizabeth and Richard Henes Center for Quantum Phenomena.
2021
December
Published my first-author paper in the journal of Molecular Systems Design & Engineering titled "Inhibition of lithium dendrite growth with highly concentrated ions: cellular automaton simulation and surrogate model with ensemble neural networks" [Preprint] [Website].
August
Published my first-author review paper in the Journal of Polymer Science titled "Polarization of ionic liquid and polymer and its implications for polymerized ionic liquids: An overview towards a new theory and simulation" [PDF] [Website].
March
Delivered a presentation at the APS March Meeting online, "Effects of the Physical Properties of Ionic Liquids on Lithium Dendrite Growth"[link].