{"id":16,"date":"2020-04-24T17:52:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T17:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:19:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T15:19:26","slug":"grants-and-awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/grants-and-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"GRANTS &amp; AWARDS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Grants<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2026 Cottrell Scholar Award (single-PI, <strong>$120,000<\/strong>)<em>       Research Corporation for Science Advancement<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2025 ACED: Accelerating Computing-Enabled Scientific Discovery (lead-PI, <strong>$500,000<\/strong> in total, with Prof. Hui Guan) <em>National Science Foundation<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>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)<em>       SLAC National Accelerator Laborator<\/em>y<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2024 Greenhouse Gas Removal Ideation Prize (PI, <strong>$4,000<\/strong> in total, with Prof. Xin Xu and Prof. Shuya Wei)<em>        Bezos Earth Fund<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2022 Doctoral New Investigator Award (single-PI, <strong>$110,000<\/strong>)<em>       American Chemical Society<\/em> <em>Petroleum Research Fund <\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2022 Scialog\u00ae Team Award in Negative Emissions Science (PI, <strong>$165,000<\/strong> in total, with Prof. Yayuan Liu and Prof. Sen Zhang)<em>       Research Cooperation for Science Advancement<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Alfred P. Sloan Foundation<\/em>, and <em>Climate Pathfinders Foundation<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021 ADVANCE Collaborative Research Seed Grant (PI, <strong>$15,000<\/strong> in total, with Prof. Hui Guan)<em>       National Science Foundation<\/em> and <em>University of Massachusetts Amherst<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021 Faculty Success Fellowship (single-PI, <strong>$4,000<\/strong>)<em>       University of Massachusetts Amherst<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021 Start-Up Allocation Award (PI, 50,000 hrs)<em>       eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021 Exploratory Allocation Award (PI 30,000 hrs)<em>       National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center <\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020 Start-Up Fund (single-PI, <strong>$640,000<\/strong>)<em>       University of Massachusetts Amherst<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Awards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2026 OpenEye Cadence Molecular Sciences Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry<em>       American Chemical Society<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2026 Nick Besley Award<em>       Q-Chem, Inc.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2026 Cottrell Scholar Award<em>       Research Cooperation for Science Advancement<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2026 Flygare Award Lecture<em>       International Symposium of Molecular Spectroscopy<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2024 Greenhouse Gas Removal Ideation Prize (Phase I)<em><em>       <\/em>Bezos Earth Fund<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2024 Scialog\u00ae Fellow in Automatic Chemical Laboratories<em>       Research Cooperation for Science Advancement<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2024 Spotlight Talk<em>       Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems AI for Accelerated Materials Design Workshop<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2024 Hot Topic Talk<em><em>       <\/em>Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Interactions and Dynamics<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2024 ADVANCE Faculty Fellow<em>       University of Massachusetts Amherst<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2024 Dell\u2013Intel Young Investigator Award<em>       Sanibel Symposium on Quantum Theory<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021 Scialog\u00ae Fellow in Negative Emissions Science<em>       Research Cooperation for Science Advancement<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021 Faculty Success Fellow<em>       University of Massachusetts Amherst<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2019 Physical Chemistry Young Investigator Award<em>       American Chemical Society<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2014 Presidential Fellowship<em>       The Ohio State University<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2009 Outstanding Undergraduate Student<em>       Province of Anhui, China<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2009 Outstanding Bachelor&#8217;s Thesis<em>       University of Science and Technology of China<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grants Awards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932,"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/zlinqcgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}