Assistant Professor (CV)

• Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Maryland College Park

Faculty member 

• Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) at the University of Maryland College Park

Faculty member

• Biophysics and Chemical Physics Programs
  • Institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST), at the University of Maryland College Park

Faculty member

• Molecular and Cellular Biology (MOCB) and Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Genomics (CBBG) Biological Sciences Graduate Program (BISI), at the University of Maryland College Park

 

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