GRANTS

National Science Foundation (NSF)

  • 2025-2027 ACED: Accelerating Computing-Enabled Scientific Discovery (lead-PI, $500,000 in total) with Prof. Hui Guan (UMass CICS), “ACED: Revolutionizing Instrumental Analysis Using Foundation Models”. [NSF] [News]

Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA)

  • 2026-2029 Cottrell Scholar Award (single-PI, $120,000), “Understanding Fischer–Tropsch-Type Catalysis in Space: Spectroscopic Analysis Empowered by Generative Artificial Intelligence”. [RCSA] [News]
  • 2022-2024 Scialog® Team Award in Negative Emission Science (PI, $165,000 in total and $55,000 for UMass Amherst), with Prof. Yayuan Liu (Johns Hopkins) and Prof. Sen Zhang (U Virginia), “Carbon Dioxide–Methane Coupling with Electric-Field-Polarized Microelectrodes”. [RCSA]

American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACS PRF)

  • 2023-2025 Doctoral New Investigator Award (single-PI, $110,000), “Nuclear Quantum Effects in Photocatalytic Direct Methane Oxidation Driven by Proton-Coupled Electron Transfers.” [ACS]

Bezos Earth Fund

  • 2024 Greenhouse Gas Removal Ideation Prize (Phase I) (PI, $4,000 in total and $4,000 for UMass Amherst), with Prof. Xin Xu (Arizona State) and Prof. Shuya Wei (U New Mexico), “Precise Methane Oxidation on a Vertically Aligned Nanocomposite Membrane.” [Experiment Foundation]

University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • 2022-2024 ADVANCE Collaborative Research Seed Grant (PI, $15,000 in total) with Prof. Hui Guan (UMass CICS), “Accelerating Fragment-Based Quantum Chemistry via Machine Learning.” [UMass Amherst]
  • 2021-2022 Faculty Success Fellowship (single-PI, $4,000). [UMass Amherst]
  • 2020-2026 Start-Up Fund (single-PI, $640,000).