Lan Cheng (CV)

Lan Cheng is an associate professor in theoretical and computational chemistry.  His group carries out research on relativistic quantum chemistry and computational molecular spectroscopy..

Lan received his Ph.D. from Peking University (Professor Wenjian Liu). After graduation he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz (Professor Jürgen Gauss) and at the University of Texas at Austin (Professor John Stanton).

Xubo Wang

Xubo Wang is a postdoctoral researcher. .

Zhe Lin

Zhe Lin is a fifth-year graduate student.

Tianxiang Chen

Tianxiang Chen is a fifth-year graduate student.

Chris Avanessian

Chris Avanessian is a fifth-year graduate student.

Ziheng Guo

Ziheng Guo is a second-year graduate student.

Yixuan Wu

Yixuan Wu is a second-year graduate student.

Sen Wang

Sen Wang is a second-year graduate student.

Former members

Hannah Korslund

Hannah Korslund was an undergraduate researcher in the group and worked on calculations of properties for molecules of interest to laser-cooling. Her work on YO molecule was presented at international symposium of molecular spectroscopy in 2019 and published on Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 22, 26167-26177 (2020).

Hannah received her B.S. from Johns Hopkins University in 2020 and went on pursuing a Master’s degree in Scientific Education at Stanford University.

Junzi Liu

Junzi Liu is currently an associate professor at University of Science and Technology Beijing. Junzi was a postdoc fellow in our group from 2017 to 2021.

Junzi received his Ph.D. from Peking University with Professor Wenjian Liu  (2014). After graduation he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Tsinghua University. Junzi’s research interest focuses on development of new quantum-chemical methods for electronically excited states.

Ayush Asthana

Ayush Asthana is currently an assistant professor at University of North Dakota.

Ayush received his B.S. from Indian Institute of Technology (2016). He was a PhD student in the group from 2016 to 2021. Ayush’s PhD thesis is focused on efficient implementation of spin-orbit coupled-cluster methods. Ayush worked as a postdoc researcher in Professor Nicholas Mayhall’s group at Virginia Tech from 2021 to 2023.

Xuechen Zheng

Xuechen received his B.S. from Zhejiang University (2018). Xuechen was a PhD student in the group from 2018 to 2023. Xuechen’s thesis focuses on developing unitary coupled-cluster excited-state methods and also coupled-cluster techniques for accurate calculations of x-ray spectroscopy. Xuechen is working as a postdoc researcher for Professor Xiaosong Li at University of Washington.

Chaoqun Zhang

Chaoqun received his B.S. from Zhejiang University (2019). He was a graduate student in the group from 2019 to 2024. Chaoqun’s thesis focuses on development of relativistic electronic structure theory and accurate calculations of vibronic structures for laser cooling metal-containing small molecules.