Education

2009 Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, Wayne State University, USA; with Vladimir Y. Chernyak
2004 M.S. Applied Chemistry, Dalian University of Technology, China; with Zhiguang Liu
2001 B.S. Chemical Engineering, B.A. English, Dalian University of Technology

Work Experience
2016- present Associate Professor, FIST, Xi’an Jiaotong University

2017-2018 Visiting Scholar, Iowa State University; with Mark S. Gordon

2012-2016   Research Scientist, Xi’an Jiaotong University
2009-2012   Postdoc, University of Notre Dame, USA; with William F. Schneider
2005-2008   Summer intern, Los Alamos National Lab., USA; with Sergei Tretiak

Research Interests: First-principles based multiscale modeling of
1. Lateral interactions and strain engineering for surface catalysis
2. Stimuli-responsive materials for separation
3. Cheminformatics (finding reaction descriptors, digging data out of papers)

Courses

1. Electronic Structure of Molecules (grad. course, 32 hr)

2. Computational Chemistry (undergrad. course, 32 hr)

3. Introduction to the book of "The collapse of the heavenly dynasty" (undergrad. elective course, 16 hr)