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EDUCATION
Duke University, Durham, NC
- 05/2019
- Ph.D., Computational Chemistry
- 05/2019
- Certificate in College Teaching
- 05/2019
- Graduate Certificate in Nanoscience
Peking University, Beijing, China
- 06/2019
- B.S., Chemistry
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC
Graduate Research Assistant, Adviser: Dr. David N. Beratan
- 2018 – 2019
- Improving the fluorescence intensity of red fluorescence proteins via local electric field created by targeted mutations of charged residues.
- 2017 – 2019
- Investigating the mechanism of charge transports in self-assembled cyclic peptide nanotubes.
- 2015 – 2017
- Designed linear light absorbers based on the quantum-optical analogy.
- 2015 – 2017
- Explored the physics underpinning the orders of magnitude enhancement of polyene light absorption induced by electrostatic fields.
- 2014 – 2015
- Investigated the oscillator strength distributions in quantum models and in molecules to rationalize the low absorption in the UV/Vis spectral region in molecules.
Surface & Materials Science Laboratory, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Adviser: Dr. Kai Wu
- 2012 – 2013
- Synthesized highly ordered Sn2O3 nanowire and Ta2O5 nanotube arrays via template-assisted CVD and anodic oxidation.
- 2011 – 2012
- Improved a template-assisted method to synthesizing single crystalline nanowire arrays of high-aspect-ratio.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, Jiangsu, China
- 09/2018 – 12/2018
- Graduate Teaching Fellow, Mathematics Foundations & Integrated Science
Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC
- 01/2018 – 05/2018
- Teaching Assistant, Biophysical Chemistry
- 09/2017 – 12/2017
- Course Development Assistant, Biophysical Chemistry
- 01/2017 – 05/2017
- Teaching Assistant(peer reviewed), Biophysical Chemistry
- 09/2016 – 05/2017
- Undergraduate Student Supervisor, Research Independent Study
- 01/2014 – 05/2014
- Teaching Assistant, Modern Applications of Chemical Principles – Lab
- 09/2013 – 12/2013
- Teaching Assistant, Core Concepts in Chemistry – Lab
See details here.
COMPUTER SCIENCE EXPERIENCE
- 05/2018 – 06/2018
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PhilistineHome – A Small Internet Forum
Built a small Internet forum where users could share their thoughts on anime, music, and life. Used by my friends and families (~10 users).
- 10/2017 – 12/2017
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Group project for the Mobile App Development course at Duke University (Grade: A+)
Wrote an iOS app called “Athena” using Swift, which helps the users find sport players with matched skill levels and schedule games.
Available for download at the Duke App Store.
- 10/2016 – 12/2016
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“Baby” Command Shell using C++
Project for the Programming, Data structure & Algorithms in C++ course at Duke University (Grade: A+)
Wrote a C++ program package that has the basic Linux shell functions, free of warnings and memory leak, coded defensively.
- 10/2015 – 12/2015
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GPU Optimization for Stencil-Based Hemodynamics Simulation
Group project for the Parallel Computing course, collaborated with Dr. Amanda Randles’s lab at Duke University (Grade: A+)
Exploited and analyzed parallelism in the stencil-based computational model of blood flow simulation using GPU. Achieved a speedup up to 20.
See details here.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Computational Chemistry
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NWChem, Gaussian (quantum mechanics)
NAMD, VMD (molecular dynamics)
Mathematica, Matlab, Origin, Latex
- Data Science
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Machine learning (using Python pandas and scikit-learn)
- Programming
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C/C++, Python, Swift, Unix shell script
HTML/CSS, iOS app development, Git
- Parallel Programming
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OpenMP, CilkPlus, TBB, MPI, CUDA (based on C/C++)
- Materials Science
- Chemical vapor deposition, Scanning electron microscopy, X-Ray diffraction
- Languages
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Chinese (native)
English (full professional proficiency)
Japanese (limited working proficiency)
AWARDS
- Duke Kunshan University
- Graduate Teaching Fellowship Award (2018)
- Duke University
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Graduate Travel Award (2016)
GPNano Fellowship (2014)
- Peking University
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Honors Students (2012)
Pan Gu Scholarship (2012)
Academic Excellence Award (2011)
Wusi Scholarship (2010&2011)
Excellent Freshmen (2009)
PUBLICATIONS
L. Zheng, A. Migliore, D. N. Beratan. Electrostatic Field-Induced Oscillator Strength Focusing in Molecules. J. Phys. Chem. B., 2020, 124 (29), 6376.
L. Zheng, N. F. Polizzi, A. R. Dave, A. Migliore, D. N. Beratan. Where Is the Electronic Oscillator Strength? Mapping Oscillator Strength across Molecular Absorption Spectra. J. Phys. Chem. A., 2016, 120 (11), 1933.
J. Shang, B. Huang, J. Yu, Y. Wang, H. Song, J. Dai, C. Chen, L. Zheng, K. Wu, et al. Morphological Evolution of In2O3 Crystallites by Metallothermal Reaction Growth: A Unified Elucidation. J. Clust Sci., 2017, 28 (5), 2733.
L. Zheng, S. Roy, O. Silberbush, A. Migliore, N. Ashkenasy, D. N. Beratan. The Enormous Influence of Side Chain Flexibility on Intermolecular Proton Transfer in Self-Assembled Peptide Nanotubes. In preparation.
CONFERENCES
L. Zheng, A. Migliore, D. N. Beratan. Significant Enhancement of Polyene Light Absorption Induced by Electrostatic Fields. Presented at the third Annual Duke Chemistry Graduate Research Symposium, Duke University, Durham, NC (September, 2017).
L. Zheng, A. Migliore, D. N. Beratan. Significant Enhancement of Polyene Light Absorption Induced by Electrostatic Fields. Presented at the American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, MA (July, 2017).
L. Zheng, N. F. Polizzi, A. R. Dave, A. Migliore, D. N. Beratan.Where Is the Electronic Oscillator Strength in Molecules? Toward Strategies for Oscillator Strength Focusing. Presented at the Gordon Research Conferences: Solar Energy Conversion, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China (July, 2016).
L. Zheng, N. F. Polizzi, A. R. Dave, A. Migliore, D. N. Beratan. Investigations of Oscillator Strength Focusing. Presented at the annual meeting of the Southeast Theoretical Chemistry Association, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL (May, 2015)