News

2025

• 8/2025: Jenedith Pascasio from the STARS program presented her work "Screening MoS₂-Based Electrocatalysts for Nitrogen Reduction Reaction" at the Summer Research Conference (SRC) 2025 at UC San Diego. Congrats!
• 8/2025: Dr. Wanlu Li was invited to the International Conference on Chemical Bonding and gave a talk: Lanthanide/Actinide-Doped Boron Nanomaterials.
• 8/2025: Dr. Wanlu Li organize the CATL symposium on Recent Advances in Computational Heterogeneous and Electrocatalysis at ACS Fall meeting, and gave a talk on the topic of Physics-Informed Generative Modelling for Structural Prediction of Amorphous High Entropy Materials.
• 7/2025: Congratulations to Dr. Wanlu Li on receiving the ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator (PRF DNI) award!
• 7/2025: Dr. Wanlu Li hosted the Vol. 237 iCANX Talks with other peers on the topic of AI for Materials Design.
• 7/2025: Dr. Wanlu Li was invited to give a talk at the 7th Tinker Developer Workshop on the topic of TinkerModeller: An Efficient Tool for Building Biological Systems in Tinker Simulations.
• 6/2025: Congratulations to our group member Xiao Ma on receiving the prestigious Katzin Prize!
• 6/2025: Congratulations to our group member Jordan Burkhardt on successfully defending his Master’s degree!
• 5/2025: Dr. Wanlu Li was invited to the 2025 World Fuel Cell Conference and gave a keynote talk: Physics-Informed Generative Model of Amorphous Multi-Element (High-Entropy) Nanoparticles for Sustainable Materials Design.
• 4/2025: Congratulations to Dr. Wanlu Li on being awarded the Hellman Fellowship!
• 4/2025: Dr. Wanlu Li got the Jacobs Early Career Faculty Development award and was invited to give a talk: Propelling CO2 Reduction: High-Entropy Alloy Design for Formic Acid Production Integrating Advanced First-Principle Calculations and Machine Learning.
• 4/2025: Dr. Wanlu Li was invited to the 2025 Mesilla Chemistry Workshop on Machine Learning in Molecular and Multiscale Dynamics and gave a talk: Physics-Informed Conditional Generative Modeling for Amorphous Multi-Element Materials.
• 3/2025: Congratulations to Dr. Wanlu Li on receiving the UCSD Faculty Career Development Program award!
• 3/2025: Dr. Wanlu Li was invited to the 2025 Mesilla Chemistry Workshop on Machine Learning in Molecular and Multiscale Dynamics and gave a talk: Physics-Informed Conditional Generative Modeling for Amorphous Multi-Element Materials.
• 2/2025: Dr. Wanlu Li was invited to give a talk at the DigCat workshop on Physics-Guided Structural Prediction for Sub-Nanometer Clusters and Multi-Element Nanoparticles for Sustainable Materials Design.
• 2/2025: Dr. Wanlu Li was invited to Department of Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University and gave a talk: Physics-Informed Generative Modelling for Structural Prediction of Amorphous High Entropy Materials.

2024

• 12/2024: Dr. Wanlu Li was invited to the 12th Singapore International Chemistry Conference and gave a talk: Physics-Guided Generative Modelling for Amorphous High Entropy Nanoparticle Catalysts.
• 10/2024: As one of the organizers, Dr. Wanlu Li organized the 7th SoCal TheoChem Symposium and gave a talk: Predictive Modeling of Multi-Element Metallic Glass Nanoparticles for Catalytic Applications.
• 09/2024: Dr. Wanlu Li was invited to the SPEC Summit at UCSD and gave a talk: Physics-Guided Structural Prediction for Sub-Nanometer Clusters and Multi-Element Nanoparticles for Sustainable Materials Design.
• 08/2024: Dr. Wanlu Li was invited to the ACS Fall meeting at Denver and gave an oral presentation on nanocluster science: Lanthanide/Actinide-Doped Boron Clusters: Chemical Bonding, Electronic Structure, and Global Minimum Search.
• 05/2024: Dr. Wanlu Li was invited to the CECAM meeting in France and gave an oral presentation on modelling supramolecular catalysis: Methods and Applications.

2023

• 12/2023: Congratulations to Dr. Wanlu Li on being awarded the Jacobs School of Engineering Early Career Faculty Development Award!
• 12/2023: Congratulations to our group member, Jordan Burkhardt, on participating in the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Visit!
• 10/2023: Dr. Wanlu Li was selected “Faculty Fellowship 2023“, thanks Faculty Fellowship Program Israel!
• 07/2023: Dr. Wanlu Li’s group was officially launched at UCSD.