(Hopefully) a theoretical chemist. I'm a Ph.D. candidate in chemical physics at Columbia, where I build quantum-chemistry methods and the software around them. yhljason49 -at- gmail.com · résumé (PDF)
Work
2021 — now
Graduate Researcher · Columbia Center for Computational Electrochemistry
Periodic local MP2 in PySCF, quantum embedding, battery modeling
2020 — 2021
Undergraduate Researcher · Head-Gordon Group, UC Berkeley
Benchmarked 47 computational chemistry methods across 132 molecular systems
2019 — 2020
Developer · pymatgen (Materials Project)
TEM diffraction calculator module
2018
Materials Science Intern · Sumitomo Electric Industries, Osaka
Root-cause failure analysis of materials defects
Education
2021 — 2026
Ph.D. Candidate, Chemical Physics · Columbia University
Gu Family & Dean’s Fellowship
2017 — 2021
B.S. Chemistry, Honors · UC Berkeley