Welcome to my personal website!

• I am currently a postdoctoral scholar in Department of Chemistry at Stanford University, under the supervision of Todd Martínez. I obtained my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University with Hai Wang. Before that, I earned my M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University, and my B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.



• My research mission is to develop next-generation sustainable and efficient aerospace propulsion devices. My goal is to tackle two challenges in the aerospace frontier: aerospace sustainability and high-speed aerospace vehicle design. I am particularly interested in understainding sustainable aviation biofuel and hydrogen combustion and its synthetic production pathways, along with the underlying reacting flow physics in both current aerospace propulsion devices and future carbon-neutral, high-speed vehicles.
• My research approach centers around multiscale reacting flow modeling. I specialize in the development of modeling methodologies unique to reacting flow physics, such as chemical kinetics, molecular interactions, thermal nonequilibrium, and turbulent flows. To accomplish this, I integrate techniques such as GPU-accelerated quantum chemistry molecular modeling, chemical kinetic modeling, and turbulence-resolved flow simulations, with the aid of data-driven methods.

News

• 03/19/24: I will be presenting at at ACS Spring 2024 in New Orleans, LA, as the winner of the Wiley Computers in Chemistry Outstanding Postdoc Award.
• 02/20/24: Our recent two-paper series work on high-speed methane-air reacting flow modeling, is accepted by Combustion and Flame today. Title: "Modeling high-speed, methane-air, turbulent combustion" with Part I (co-author): "One-dimensional turbulence modeling with comparison to DNS", and Part II (first and corresponding author): "Reduced methane oxidation chemistry". See the Publication page for updates and details.
• 01/08/24: I attended AIAA SciTech in Orlando.
• 11/03/23: I was invited and presented in the Physical Chemistry Seminar at Rutgers University.
• 10/27/23: I received the Wiley Outstanding Postdoc Award from ACS COMP Division today! Twitter annoucement from ACS here.
• 10/21/23: My co-authored paper "Foundational Fuel Chemistry Model 2 – iso-Butene chemistry and application in modeling alcohol-to-jet fuel combustion" has been accepted by Combustion and Flame.
• 10/18/23: I presented in BASF CARA Fall Review Meeting at UCSB.
• 10/03/23: My co-authored paper "Efficient Acceleration of Reaction Discovery in the ab initio Nanoreactor: Phenyl Radical Oxidation Chemistry" has been accepted by The Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
• 08/17/23: I presented at ACS Fall 2023 (COMP Quantum Mechanics Session) in San Francisco.
• 07/14/23: My paper "First principles reaction discovery: From the Schrodinger equation to experimental prediction for methane pyrolysis" has been featured in Chem. Sci. front cover, ChemSciHOT collections (media), and ChemSciPick of the week (media).
• 06/02/23: My paper "First principles reaction discovery: From the Schrodinger equation to experimental prediction for methane pyrolysis" has been accepted by Chemical Science.
• 05/06/23: I attended 2023 West Coast Theoretical Chemistry (WCTC) meeting and presented a poster.
• 03/02/23: My recent work on combining ab initio reaction discovery with chemical kinetic modeling is now on ChemRxiv.
• 02/10/23: My co-authored paper "Neural network approach to response surface development for reaction model optimization and uncertainty minimization" has been accepted by Combustion and Flame.