Professional Experience:

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• 2020-now Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University

• 2021-now Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

• 2017-2020 Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University

• 2016-2017 Postdoctoral Scholar, The University of California, Berkeley

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Education:

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• 2016 Ph.D. in Chemistry, The University of Chicago

• 2012 M.S. in Chemistry, The University of Chicago

• 2011 B.S. in Chemical Biology, Tsinghua University

 

​Honors and Awards:

• 2025 Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

• 2024 Poster award in Laboratory Head category at the Welch Conference, Houston, Texas

• 2023 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA, R35), NIGMS, National Institutes of Health

• 2022 Apple Polishing Award, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

• 2022 Research Grant from the Robert A. Welch Foundation

• 2015 Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award, American Chemical Society

• 2015 The Windt Memorial Fund Graduate Fellowship, The University of Chicago, Chicago

• 2015 Outstanding Young Researcher Award, From Computational Biophysics to Systems Biology” (CBSB) conference

• 2010 Zongcheng Zheng Academic Excellent Scholarship, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

• 2010 Wang Yong Academic Excellent Scholarship, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

• 2010 Zengjue Sun Academic Excellent Scholarship, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

 

Courses taught:

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• CHEM3310  Molecular Biochemistry

• CHEM5304  Computational Chemistry and Biomolecular Modeling