Professional Profile

Funding and honors

Active external funding

• 2026-2027
  Principal Investigator
  Guangzhou Education Bureau Collaborative Education Program Active

Completed external funding

• 2024-2025
  Principal Investigator
  Guangzhou-HKUST(GZ) Joint Research Project (2024A03J0606) Completed
• 2023-2025
  Principal Investigator
  NSFC Young Scientist Fund (12201146) Completed
• 2023-2025
  Principal Investigator
  Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation General Program (2023A1515012197) Completed
• 2023-2025
  Principal Investigator
  Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Bureau Maiden Voyage Project (2023A04J0054) Completed

Other support

Additional industrial and internal research grants are not listed here.

Selected recognition

• 2026 Early Career Physicist, Institute of Physics, UK.
• 2025 Best Presentation Award, The 4th International Symposium on Computational Energy Science (COMPES 2025).
• 2025 featured journal cover article in Soft Matter for

Mechanisms of electrostatic interactions between two charged dielectric spheres inside a polarizable medium: an effective-dipole analysis .

• 2019 Journal of Chemical Physics Editors’ Choice for

Efficient dynamic simulations for charged dielectric spheres through a novel hybrid method .

Selected leadership and service

Academic Leadership and Professional Service

• Organizer, Mini-workshop on “Electrostatics in Advanced Materials”, 2024. Reported in the Institute of Physics newsletter.
• Organizer, Minisymposium on “Modeling and Simulation for Materials Science and Deep Learning,” EASIAM 2024.
• Organizer, AMAT Seminar Series on Computational Sciences, HKUST(GZ), 2023-present.
• Organizer, Minisymposium on “Simulations and Algorithms for Materials Sciences”, ICIAM 2023, Tokyo.

Institutional Service and Leadership

• Member, AI-Academic Committee for the “Major + AI” extended major program, HKUST(GZ), 2026-present.
• Undergraduate Coordinator, Materials Science and Engineering major, HKUST(GZ), 2025-present.
• Sub-committee Leader, Red Bird MPhil Selection and Interview Committee (University Level), HKUST(GZ), 2025-2026.
• Member, Senate Committee on Teaching and Learning Quality, HKUST(GZ), 2023-present.

Editorial and refereeing

• Youth Editorial Board member, Journal of Materials Informatics, 2024-present.
• Referee for selected journals spanning computational mathematics, computational physics, and chemical sciences, including Mathematics of Computation, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Journal of Computational Physics, Accounts of Chemical Research, Physical Review Letters, Nano Letters, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, and PRX Energy.