Biography:

Zhenyu Li is a chair professor of chemistry at USTC, director of State Key Laboratory of Precision and Intelligent Chemistry. He received his Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from USTC in 2004. He did postdoc researches at University of Maryland, College Park and University of California, Irvine from 2004 to 2006. Then, he joined USTC as a faculty member. His research field is theoretical and computational chemistry. In recent years, he has developed some quantum algorithms for electronic structure calculations for molecular and periodic systems.

Research Interest:

Theoretical studies of atomistic mechanisms and materials properties, development of new methods powered by quantum computing and artificial intelligence

What You Can Expect in the Project:

In this project, you will learn the fundamental principles of quantum computing and/or artificial intelligence. Then, you can try to using existing methods or developing new methods to solving chemical problems.

Desired skill and background:

Linear algebra and programing, with quantum mechanics as a plus.