Yan Zhao

Biography

Dr. Yan Zhao is a research scientist in Commercial Print Engine Lab of HP Labs. Before joining HP,  he was a research associate in the Truhlar group, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota. He received a B.A. from Fudan University in 1993, and a M.E. from Sichuan University in 1996. His research in China is in the areas of materials, polymer, and surface chemistry. He had solid experience in polymer synthesis and surface modification of pigments. Dr. Zhao is a co-inventor of Chinese patent. In 2005, he received a Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Zhao has developed new benchmark databases, new density functional models, and new scientific computer programs. These databases, DFT models, and computer programs have been widely used by many national/international researchers in the community of computational and theoretical chemistry. Dr Zhao has published 50+ scientific articles in computational and theoretical chemistry, and many of Dr. Zhao's papers have received recognition as hot articles and/or highly-cited articles in theoretical and computational chemistry. Dr. Zhao has an h-index of 27.

Research interests

Developments and applications of theoretical and computational models for chemical problems in digital printing technology.

Awards

Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, awarded by Graduate School, University of Minnesota, 2004

Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Travel Grants, 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2006

Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Travel Grants, 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2007

Publications

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Patents

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Professional activities

Coauthoered Computer Program:

     NWChem   http://www.emsl.pnl.gov/docs/nwchem/nwchem.html 

     MULTILEVEL-version 4.2  http://comp.chem.umn.edu/multilevel/ 

     MLGAUSS-version 2.0  http://comp.chem.umn.edu/mlgauss/ 

     MN-NWCHEMFM   http://comp.chem.umn.edu/mn-nwchemfm/ 

     MN-GFM   http://comp.chem.umn.edu/mn-gfm/ 

Reviewer Experiences:
 
Invited to review manuscripts for
J. Am. Chem. Soc., J. Chem. Phys., Theor. Chem. Acc., Environ. Sci. & Technol., Chem. Phys. Lett., J. Phys. Chem. A&C, J. Chem. Theory Comput., THEOCHEM. 

Professional Memberships:

Sigma Xi, American Chemical Society (ACS), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)