GRANTS & AWARDS

Grants

  • 2025 X-Ray Beam Time (co-PI, 60 hrs, with Xinxin Cheng, Peter W. Weber, Thomas Wolf, Michael P. Minitti, Martin Centurion, Mengling Liang, and Lin Xiong) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
  • 2024 Greenhouse Gas Removal Ideation Prize Phase I Finalist (PI, $4,000 in total, with Prof. Xin Xu and Prof. Shuya Wei) Bezos Earth Fund
  • 2022 Doctoral New Investigator Award (single-PI, $110,000) American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund
  • 2022 Scialog® Team Award in Negative Emissions Science (PI, $165,000 in total, with Prof. Yayuan Liu and Prof. Sen Zhang) Research Cooperation for Science Advancement, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Climate Pathfinders Foundation
  • 2021 ADVANCE Collaborative Research Seed Grant (PI, $15,000 in total, with Prof. Hui Guan) National Science Foundation and University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • 2021 Faculty Success Fellowship (single-PI, $4,000) University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • 2021 Start-Up Allocation Award (PI, 50,000 hrs) eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE)
  • 2021 Exploratory Allocation Award (PI 30,000 hrs) National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center
  • 2020 Start-Up Fund (single-PI, $640,000) University of Massachusetts Amherst

Awards

  • 2024 Scialog® Fellow in Automatic Chemical Laboratories Research Cooperation for Science Advancement
  • 2024 Spotlight Talk Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems AI for Accelerated Materials Design Workshop
  • 2024 Hot Topic Talk Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Interactions and Dynamics
  • 2024 ADVANCE Faculty Fellow University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • 2024 Sanibel Symposium Young Investigator Award University of Florida Quantum Theory Project
  • 2021 Scialog® Fellow in Negative Emissions Science Research Cooperation for Science Advancement
  • 2021 Faculty Success Fellow University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • 2019 Physical Chemistry Young Investigator Award American Chemical Society
  • 2014 Presidential Fellowship The Ohio State University
  • 2009 Outstanding Undergraduate Student Province of Anhui, China
  • 2009 Outstanding Bachelor’s Thesis University of Science and Technology of China