Assistant Professor
Faculty Fellow
- Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) at the University of Maryland College Park
Affiliated PhD Programs
- Chemistry
- Biochemistry
- Biophysics
- Chemical Physics
- Biological Sciences Graduate Program (BISI)-Molecular and Cellular Biology (MOCB)
- Biological Sciences Graduate Program (BISI)-Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Genomics (CBBG)
Professional Experience
- Postdoctoral Fellow & Associate Specialist (Advisor: David Agard), Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco
- Postdoctoral Research Associate (Advisors: Klaus Schulten & Martin Gruebele), Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Education
- Ph.D. in Physics (Advisor: Klaus Schulten), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- M.S. in Physics (Advisors: Bernard Gerstman & Jiandi Zhang), Florida International University
- B.S. in Applied Physics (Advisor: Yongchang Wang), Xi’an Jiaotong University
Honors & Awards
- UCSF/CCSF Inclusive Mentoring Fellow, University of California San Francisco and City College of San Francisco, 2021
- Independent Postdoctoral Fellow Research Award, UCSF Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research, 2019-2020
- American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Heart Association, 2018-2020
- Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship, Helen Hay Whitney Foundation, 2015-2018
- Outstanding Reviewer, Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2015
- Baxter Young Investigator Award (2nd Tier), Baxter International Inc., 2014
- Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award, 245th American Chemical Society National Meeting, 2013
- Student Research Achievement Award, Biophysical Society 56th Annual Meeting, 2012