Our amazing undergraduate students have won multiple awards! Sophia Perucchi received the Professor Jack Ragle Research Fellowship and the ACS-Hach Foundation Scholarship; Ella Bilge received the Professor Jack Ragle Research Fellowship; Matthew Skarbek Capra received the ACS Undergraduate Award in …
Congratulations to our undergraduate students Sophia, Ella, Matthew, and Nikolaus! Read more »
Hongshan Bi has published a paper titled “Active site design enables industrial scale H2O2 electrosynthesis with metal-free catalysts” on Nature Communications as a co-first author. [Please read https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-70983-2 for details.] In this paper, he discovered the effective active sites on …
Hongshan published a co-first-authored paper on Nature Communications! Read more »
Our group was selected as the recipient of the 2026 Nick Besley Award from Q-Chem, Inc., to recognize our pioneering contributions at the intersection of machine learning and quantum chemistry, and our work developing models that inform density functional parameters …
We received the Nick Besley Award from Q-Chem, Inc. Read more »
Our Chemical Engineering graduate student, Siqi Chen, was awarded the PPG fellowship for her proposal “From Spectrum to Structure: Generative Artificial Intelligence Analyzes Material Synthesis and Degradation”. Congratulations to Siqi!
It is a great honor for us to be selected as one of the 24 Cottrell Scholar Awardees by Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA)! The award recognizes our contributions in artificial intelligence, molecular spectroscopy, heterogenous catalysis, astrophysical chemistry, and …
Prof. Zhou Lin has received a 2026 Flygare Award from the International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy (ISMS). Awarded biennially to early-career scientists within 10 years of their PhD, the honor recognizes outstanding contributions to molecular spectroscopy. Lin is recognized for independent …
We received the Flygare Award from International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy! Read more »
Our proposed project, titled “ACED: Revolutionizing Instrumental Analysis Using Foundation Models“, has received an award of $500,000 from National Science Foundation (NSF), Accelerating Computing-Enabled Scientific Discovery (ACED) Program! In this study, we designed a novel method to perform a reverse …
We received our first major grant from National Science Foundation! Read more »
Our undergraduate student Chase Presz was recognized by ACS Undergraduate Award in Physical Chemistry, Mr. Tompkins Award, and ACS Membership Award! Another undergraduate student Ella Bilge was selected to attend the William Lee Science Impact Program (Lee SIP). Two other …
Congratulations to Our Undergraduate Students Chase, Ella, Matthew, and Alexander Read more »
Siqi’s co-first-authored paper, titled “Visible Light-Driven E-Selective Semihydrogenation of Alkynes and Their Application in the Treatment of Glioblastoma Multiforme”, has been published online by European Journal of Organic Chemistry! (https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202401370) Please check out the decoded reaction mechanisms there!
Our collaborative proposal in collaboration with Prof. Xin Xu from Arizona State University and Prof. Shuya Wei from University of New Mexico, entitled “Precise Methane Oxidation on a Vertically Aligned Nanocomposite Membrane”, was selected as the Phase I Finalist for …