Theoretical/Computational Chemist @EmoryChem Assistant Professor

Atlanta, GA
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Issue 9 is here! Our front cover this week features Fang Liu et al 🤩 'Chatbot-assisted quantum chemistry for explicitly solvated molecules' 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D4SC08677E #ChemSciCovers @FangLiu_Emory @EmoryChem @emorycollege
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Coming up Monday afternoon at ACS Fall 2026: machine learning potentials and data-driven models for molecular and materials simulations. 📅 Monday, August 24 ⏰ 2:00–6:00 PM 📍 McCormick Place Convention Center, Room W180 #ACSFall2026
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Join us at #ACSFall2026 in Chicago for “Machine Learning Meets Electronic Structure Theory”—three days at the frontier of quantum chemistry, materials and AI. 📅 Aug 24–26 📍 McCormick Place, Room W180 👥 Organized by Yeongsu Cho & Fang Liu #MachineLearning #QuantumChemistry
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Full program (access with ACS login): (1) Aug 24 AM: lnkd.in/ekkRZcb5 (2) Aug 24 PM: lnkd.in/excVU43x (3) Aug 25 AM: lnkd.in/eJn9EUtS (4) Aug 25 PM: lnkd.in/eEwt26eg (5) Aug 26 AM: lnkd.in/etZjCb69 (6) Aug 26 PM: lnkd.in/eXiect2H
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We gratefully acknowledge the support of APL Computational Physics (@AIP_Publishing) and Electronic Structure (@IOPPublishing). Thank you for helping bring our community together at #ACSFall2026!
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Now in @JCIM_JCTC, Fangning & Patrick benchmark 5 different tuning schemes for long-range-separated functionals in the polarizable continuum model using experimental 937 solution-phase absorption spectra — offering data-driven recommendations. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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Barista mode activated !🍹 Crafted 10 drinks (iced coffee☕️, matcha latte🍵, and mango sago🥭)for the group + first-year grad students exploring research groups. Research talk never tasted so good!
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Reposting due to a typo in my previous post (deleted now).
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Now in Digital Discovery, @_Xu_Chen_ introduces the ACES-GNN framework, designed to simultaneously improve predictive accuracy and interpretability by integrating explanation supervision for activity cliffs (ACs) into GNN training. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
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(Reposting due to wrong link posted in previous post) Our recent work about utilizing domain adversarial neural network trained on simulated data to analyze experimental spectra is now featured in the cover image of Newton, volume 1, issue 3! cell.com/newton/fulltext/S29…
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Instead, we trained the model based on simulated spectra and apply the model to detect phase transition in experimental spectra. However, this won’t directly work, because of the difference in experimental and simulated spectra. To tackle the problem, we used domain adaptation,
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a technique that adjust the learned representation to make the experimental and simulated spectra live in the same region of the representation space, to make the classification rule for simulated spectra transferable to experimental spectra.
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Prof. Mingda Li @mit_nse just published a preview in Newton to introduce our recent paper in Newton (doi.org/10.1016/j.newton.202…) about using domain adversarial neural networks (DANN) to detect phase transition in superconducting material. cell.com/newton/fulltext/S29…
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Huge congratulations to @ArielGGale on successfully defending her PhD dissertation! So proud of this milestone and excited for what’s next!
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Now published in Newton, Xu developed a domain-adversarial framework that fuses abundant simulation data with scarce experimental data to detect thermodynamic phase transitions from photoemission spectroscopy. doi.org/10.1016/j.newton.202…
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For a detailed summary of this work, please check out the thread of posts I pinned on my profile page.
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Data scarcity often limits ML applications in experimental science. We tackle this with a domain-adversarial framework that fuses abundant simulation data with scarce experimental data to detect thermodynamic phase transitions from photoemission spectroscopy. 🧵1/6
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The work is published today on Newton: linkinghub.elsevier.com/retr… 🧵5/6
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A detailed story about this work is also available on Emory News: click.inspire.emory.edu/?qs=… 🧵6/6
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